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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
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My main interest is Semantic Web |
| 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. | |
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Cryptography and formal methods: how does what we know about formal methods apply here, and what are the new abstractions, algebras, calculi? |
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Computational Modelling of Cognition, Connectionism, Human Attention, Emotions and Reasoning. |
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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. |
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My main interest is Cloud Security |
| Computational systems biology and simulation of biological systems. | |
| Architecting dependable and secure systems. Self-adaptive software systems. Bioinspired computing applied to dependability and security. | |
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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. |
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Data mining, machine learning, evolutionary algorithms (mainly genetic programming), ant colony optimization, bioinformatics and the biology of ageing. |
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My main interest is Databases |
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| 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. | |
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I am interested in how affective and conative factors relate to the learning and teaching of computer science and programming. |
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Scientific image processing, especially volumetric and multi-spectral data; video-realistic computer animation, especially virtual humans; bio-inspired computation. |
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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. |
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Software tools for education, especially for learning and teaching software development; pedagogy of programming; object-oriented systems and programming languages; visualisation. |
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Interested in geospatial information science and distributed systems with a primary focus on spatial data storage and processing based on the cloud. He has worked on multiple areas including spatial database system, grid computing, remote sensing and WebGIS. Currently doing some research on spatial data processing in mapreduce mode under cloud computing for his PhD study. |
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My interests are machine learning, user behaviour, automated document management. My current main research area is designing user behaviour tracer frameworks in python, Clustering documents by user attention and applied file backup models by user behaviour. Also involved with MRRAM design and Memristors team. |
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| My research interests include on-line data processing, distributed publish subscribe, and high-performance event processing in large scale and cloud scenarios. | |
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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). |
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Visual aspects of diagrams including: graph drawing algorithms; schematic layout methods; Venn and Euler diagram generation techniques. |
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My main interest is Information Systems |
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My main interest is Programming Languages |
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Intrusion detection through hardware. |
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My research interests include Future Computing, Green Computing (via memristor), Grid/Cloud Computing, Biologically-inspired Computing, Quantum Computing/Communication, Data Storage & Data Communication, and Data Mining and Data Warehousing. |
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| My main interest is software engineer methodologies | |
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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. |
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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. |
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| Postgraduate Students | Primary Research Interests |
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My main interests are networking in cloud computing |
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Proof methods for cryptography. |
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Autonomic Policy based systems that are secure. |
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I am currently researching the relationship with the voltage, the current, the frequency and the heat. Then using MATLAB to simulate the principles, emulation will be performed to verify the above. Finally using memristors in computer memory and brain-like computer (neural network). |
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My research interests include global Internet ethics and security. |
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My main interests are in bee/ant colony resource sharing in grid/cloud environment. |
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Data mining and bioinformatics. |
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My interests are machine learning, user behaviour, automated document management. My current main research area is designing user behaviour tracer frameworks in python, Clustering documents by user attention and applied file backup models by user behaviour. Also involved with MRRAM design and Memristors team. |
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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. |
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Network Intrusion Detection systems. |
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Works on Optimizing workflow in multi core environments. I am currently posted to work with the Grid development team at CERN. My current work involves observing effects of grid resource sharing tools running on multi-core environments |
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Data Mining - Bayesian Network Classifiers, Kernel-Based Learning Methods and Evolutionary Algorithms. |
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Data mining and bioinformatics. |
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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. |
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My research interests include visual aspects of diagrams including: improving aesthetics for information visualisation and graph drawing. |
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My main interests are Memristor/Memristive System, Computer System Architecture, SoC and Embedded System. Currently researching on validation of memristor modelling and exploring into memory design applications (MRRAM). |
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My main interests are in mobile middleware in cloud computing |
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My interests include distributed computing (Grid computing for home environment and Web Services), Security for Digital Television, PKI, Secure Audit Systems and System engineering. |
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