Research Staff in the Computing Laboratory

All members of the Computer Science department engaged in research are listed here together with the research group(s) they are members of, under the following categories:         Academic Staff         Research Staff         Postgraduate Students

 
Academic Staff Primary Research Interests

Mr David Barnes      
Lecturer
Technological provision of support for Computer Science learning and teaching. Testing of numerical and scientific software, and the development of software testing tools for Fortran 90.  
Dr Fred Barnes      
Lecturer
 
Dr Eerke Boiten      
Senior Lecturer
Cryptography and formal methods: how does what we know about formal methods apply here, and what are the new abstractions, algebras, calculi?  
Dr John Bovey      
Lecturer
 
Prof Howard Bowman      
Professor of Cognition and Logic
Computational Modelling of Cognition, Connectionism, Human Attention, Emotions and Reasoning.  
Ms Janet Carter      
Lecturer
My background is in educational theory and my current research interests are focused upon the student perspective; how students manage the transition from the relatively sheltered school environment to the university one, gender issues, the informal symmetrical working relationships formed by students.  
Prof David Chadwick      
Professor of Information Systems Security
Public Key Infrastructures and Privilege Management Infrastructures; PERMIS, a fully functional open source authorisation infrastructure (PMI) written in Java; autonomic security systems; trust and reputation management; dynamic delegation of authority; privacy protection in authorisation; and security of ubiquitous computing systems.  
Dr Olaf Chitil      
Lecturer
 
Dr Rogerio De Lemos      
Lecturer
Architecting dependable and secure systems. Self-adaptive software systems. Bioinspired computing applied to dependability and security.  
Prof Sally Fincher      
Professor of Computing Education
I am interested in the construction and boundaries of CS Education Research as a distinct sub-disciplinary area. I have undertaken survey and synthesis work in this area. Additionally, I have a particular interest in Patterns and Pattern Languages, their use in knowledge-transfer, and their application to CS pedagogy.  
Dr Alex Freitas      
Reader in Computational Intelligence
Data Mining, Machine Learning, Evolutionary Algorithms (mainly Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming) and other Bioinspired Algorithms (e.g., Ant Colony Algorithms).  
Ms Ursula Fuller      
Honorary Lecturer
 
Dr Tim Hopkins      
Reader in Numerical Computing
 
Dr Colin Johnson      
Head of School of Computing
Bioinformatics, computational modelling of biological systems, scientific computing; computer systems inspired by nature, e.g. genetic algorithms, genetic programming (including connections with programming language theory) and neural networks; media technologies.  
Mr Richard Jones      
Reader in Computer Systems
 
Dr Stefan Kahrs      
Lecturer
 
Dr Bob Keim      
Lecturer (UKM)
I am interested in how affective and conative factors relate to the learning and teaching of computer science and programming.  
Dr Peter Kenny      
Lecturer
Scientific image processing, especially volumetric and multi-spectral data; video-realistic computer animation, especially virtual humans; bio-inspired computation.  
Dr Andy King      
Reader in Program Analysis
In my work I apply program analysis techniques to automatically find security holes in software. I am also developing tools that aid the recovery of information from binaries that supports white-hat hackers in the reverse engineering process.  
Prof Michael Kölling      
Professor of Computer Science
Software tools for education, especially for learning and teaching software development; pedagogy of programming; object-oriented systems and programming languages; visualisation.  
Prof Peter Linington      
Emeritus Professor of Computer Communication
 
Dr Gareth Owen      
Lecturer
I am interested in research into Wireless networks. There are three strands to my interests and these are: Eduroam and trust over differing institutions, reputation and trust based systems in ad hoc networks, and large scale ad hoc network routing and capacity limitations.  
Dr Hani Ragab Hassen      
Lecturer
My research interests include: P2P Systems Security, Key management for hierarchical environments, Authentication and access control for computer grid systems, Key management for Group Communications, Wireless systems security (IEEE802.11, GSM, GPRS, UMTS, TETRA).  
Dr Peter Rodgers      
Senior Lecturer
Visual aspects of diagrams including: graph display systems; graph drawing algorithms; diagram layout techniques.  
Dr Andrew Runnalls      
Lecturer
 
Dr Nick Ryan      
Lecturer
 
Prof Simon Thompson      
Professor of Logic and Computation
 
Mr Gerald Tripp      
Lecturer
 
Prof David Turner      
Emeritus Professor of Computation
 
Mr Ian Utting      
Senior Lecturer
 
Prof Peter Welch      
Professor of Parallel Computing
 
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Research Staff Primary Research Interests

Mr Neil Brown      
Research Assistant
 
Dr Dominique Chu      
Academic Fellow
Computational systems biology and simulation of biological systems.  
Dr Patrick Craston      
Visiting Researcher
 
Dr Rodolfo Gomez      
Research Associate
Specification and verification of real-time systems. In particular, temporal logics and theories of timed automata.  
Mr George Inman      
Technician
My research interests include but are not limited to the federation of identity, secure attribute aggregation from multiple identity providers, web single sign on, OpenID, Role Based Access Control and digital identity management.  
Dr Huiqing Li      
Research Associate
 
Dr Stijn Lievens      
Research Associate
 
Dr Claus Reinke      
Honorary Research Fellow
 
Mr Carl Ritson      
Research Associate
 
Mr Adam Sampson      
Research Associate
 
Mr Lei Lei Shi      
Research Associate
My research interest is security policy for information system. The study is based on ontology model of security policy, which is generic for variant environments and can be used for reasoning. Currently, we are working on a project of extracting security policy from natural language, to enable those users make security policy in a natural way.  
Mr Philip Stevens      
Research Assistant
 
Mr Mark Wheadon      
Senior Computing Fellow
 
Dr Leishi Zhang      
Research Associate
 
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Postgraduate Students Primary Research Interests

Mr Edward Barrett      
Research Student
 
Mr Lawrence Beadle      
Research Student
 
Mr Eric Bonnici      
Research Student
 
Mr Neil Brown      
Research Student
 
Mr Robert Bunyan      
Research Student
 
Mr Tom Castle      
Research Student
 
Mr Philip Cattani      
Research Student
 
Mr Srivas Chennu      
Research Student
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Mr Patrick Craston      
Research Student
I am working on computational modelling of human cognition, more precisely how humans allocate attention over time.  
Mr Carlos Da Silva      
Research Student
 
Mr Thomas Davie      
Research Student
 
Ms Kristina Dietz      
Research Student
 
Mr Damian Dimmich      
Research Student
 
Mr Lingfang Du      
Research Student
My research interests include global Internet ethics and security.  
Mr Martin Ellis      
Research Student
 
Ms Ana Ferreira      
Research Student
 
Mr Siddartha Ghosh      
Research Student
 
Mr Alexandros Gounaropoulos      
Research Student
Sound synthesis, understanding and manipulation of timbre of instruments. Creating intuitive and 'musical' ways for a musician to design sounds on a synthesiser.  
Mr Simon Haggett      
Research Student
I am working on the development of biologically inspired adaptive algorithms for use on sensor networks. At the moment I am developing a neural network based novelty detector which learns on-line, promoting data it considers to be novel given data recently observed.  
Mr Laurence Hellyer      
Research Student
 
Mr Mudassar Iqbal      
Research Student
Particle swarm optimisation and heuristic optimisation methods in general, bioinformatics, probabilistic data clustering.  
Mr Pulitha Liyanagama      
Research Student
 
Mr Sebastien Marion      
Research Student
 
Mr Emmet McIntyre      
Research Student
 
Ms Luana Micallef      
Research Student
Diagrams to facilitate the visualization and analysis of data. In particular: graph drawing techniques; Euler and Venn diagram generation and layout approaches; and the identification of appropriate aesthetic layout criteria for such diagrams.  
Mr Nicholas Miles      
Research Student
Applying data mining using evolutionary algorithms to infrared astronomical photometric and spectroscopic data sets. Attempting to extract various information such as relationships between redshift and galactic morphologies and luminosities.  
Mr Tuan-Anh Nguyen      
Research Student
Security.  
Mr Ahmed Okasha      
Research Student
 
Mr Fernando Otero      
Research Student
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Miss Sabrina Paneels      
Research Student
 
Mr Ben Pateman      
Research Student
 
Mr Andrew Ross      
Research Student
Data Mining - Bayesian Network Classifiers, Kernel-Based Learning Methods and Evolutionary Algorithms.  
Mr Adam Sampson      
Research Student
 
Mr Mariusz Saternus,      
Research Student
 
Mr Carlos Silla      
Research Student
 
Mr Chris Silles      
Research Student
 
Mr Jonathan Simpson      
Research Student
 
Mr Lukas Sklenar      
Research Student
My research interests lie in the area of use of Bayesian prediction techniques on mobile and ubiquitous devices to predict what a user might want given his or her contextual information.  
Mr Martyn Taylor      
Research Student
My research interests include visual aspects of diagrams including: improving aesthetics for information visualisation and graph drawing.  
Mr Douglas Warren      
Research Student
 
Mr Nicolae-Radu Zabet      
Research Student
 
Mr Erick da Silva      
Research Student
My interests include distributed computing (Grid computing for home environment and Web Services), Security for Digital Television, PKI, Secure Audit Systems and System engineering.  
Mr Patrick de Vries      
Research Student
 
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