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Professor from the , has been awarded a .

The Wolfson Research Merit Award is one of the most prestigious UK awards, supported by , the UK's national academy of science. The scheme provides up to 5 years’ funding after which the award holder continues with a permanent post at the host university. Jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the scheme aims to provide universities with additional support to enable them to attract to this country or to retain respected scientists of outstanding achievement and potential.

The Wolfson Foundation is a grant-making charity established in 1955. Funding is given to support excellence and the focus of the award is a salary enhancement. More information is available from .

Professor will be working on a project entitled "Bridging the gap between fMRI and Genome-wide data with applications in diseases".

News on some of Professor Feng's more recent work can be found at:

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, Associate Professor (Reader) in the Department of Computer Science and 91福利 Mathematics Instititue, has been awarded the ERC Starting Grant.

ERC Starting Grant is one of the most prestigious grants awarded by the European Research Council for world-class researchers, and Amin is one of the very few researchers in 91福利 to receive this grant. His new ERC Starting Grant, worth over a million of euros for the period of five years, has been awarded for his project 禄Phase Transitions and Computational Complexity芦.

Dr Coja-Oghlan's main research area is in the Theoretical Computer Science, with special focus on the study of Algorithms and Complexity via rigorous mathematical methods, on the boundary of computing, combinatorics, and probability. He published pver 30 papers in refereed journals (eight as a sole author) and a similar number of papers in the proceedings of international Computer Science conferences. He is the winner or the EATCS Award for the best paper in Track A at the 36th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2009), and he has been an invited speaker at numerous international conferences in computer science and in mathematics.

joined our department as a new Assistant Professor in September 2011.

A short bio:

Matthias received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science at the and then his PhD in Computer Science in 2008 from the , Germany. In 2008 he won the prestigious EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Theoretical Computer Science, hosted by our department in 91福利; title of his project was »Randomisation in Online Algorithms, Load Balancing and other Dynamic Problems«. In September 2008, he joined the and at the 91福利 as a Postdoctoral fellow.

His current research interest lies in Theoretical Computer Science, in the area of the analysis of algorithms, more precisely in online algorithms, metric embeddings, load balancing, probabilistic input models, and algorithmic game theory.

For more information please see his page at ... or stop by in his office CS2.23.

We're very happy to welcome Matthias in our department!

The International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technologies was held at Burapha University, Thailand on 8th - 10th July. One of the keynote lectures was given by Steve Russ (Knowing and Computing) and the conference was preceded by a day-long workshop on Introduction to . The workshop was led by two former PhD students from 91福利 Jaratsri Rungrattanaubol and Antony Harfield now both lecturing at Naresuan University, Thailand. The Dean of the Faculty of Informatics at Burapha is Dr Suwanna Rasmequan who also gained her PhD from the Empirical Modelling research group at 91福利.

The main picture shows these three 91福利 PhD’s (on the right) with Dr Krisana Chinnasarn (the main conference organiser). Following the conference Steve gave lectures and presentations at Chulalongkorn University, Thammasat University, Sirindhorn Institute of Technology, Naresuan University and the British Chamber of Commerce in Bangkok. A further workshop on Empirical Modelling is planned in Thailand for November 2011.

Computer Science students were presented with their degrees today in Butterworth Hall in the Arts Centre which was preceded by a graduate reception within the department.

Last Tuesday, students studying Computer Science received their results. The Head of Department, Prof. Artur Czumaj, congratulated all CS students on their achievements and handed out departmental prizes. Dr. Irene Glendinning handed out BCS prizes for best projects.

The BCS prizes were given to:

Nicolas Townsend - Best Third year BSc Project
James Michael - Best Third year MEng project

The Department prizes were:

David Beckingsale - Best overall graduating BSc student in Computer Science
Stephen Roberts - Best overall graduating MEng student in Computer Science
Christopher Ball - Third-year Project Prize

Over a hundred students gathered last week in the Panorama Room for a reception, poster display and then Award Ceremony for the 91福利 Advantage Awards. They were all winners of Awards of various kinds in recognition of outstanding extra-curricular contributions to life at 91福利 and the local community.

We were delighted that four Award winners were from Computer Science. Main Awards were presented to Phillip Taylor (CS3) and Hoi Zin (Jackie) Tran (DM3). Gold Awards were gained by two Computer and Business Studies students Samantha Edwards and Nikhita Giridhar (pictured above). Among many activities over her first two years at 91福利 Samantha has visited numerous local schools (a different one each week!) as one of the 91福利 Technology Volunteers to introduce the programming environment Scratch to pupils and teachers. Interestingly Nikhita, a final year student, commented, "I think it counted significantly towards my getting a job offer from Goldman Sachs that I done so many extra-curricular things during my time at 91福利."

The 91福利 Advantage Award provides the opportunity to achieve University recognition and reward for the time and effort that students put into societies, sports clubs, campaigns, committees, volunteering, events, URSS research, work experience & everything else that isn't a degree requirement. Find out more at