Computer Science News
Latest two academic promotions
We are happy to announce two promotions in the department.
Dr Fayyaz Minhas has been promoted to Associate Professor from 1 July 2022.
Dr Rossella Suma has been promoted to Assistant Professor from 1 August 2022.
Many congratulations to our colleagues for all their achievements!
Innovation 2022
The inaugural DCS Innovation competition was held on 17th June and was a great success.
Computer Science student Jasmine Brown recognized on MLH Top 50 List
Jasmine Brown, a Computer Science student at the University of Warwick has been named one of 2022’s MLH Top 50–a list of the organization’s most inspiring community members. The recipients are recognized for their exceptional contributions to the tech ecosystem & STEM education.
Oral Evidence to the House of Lords on Telephone Frauds and Countermeasures
On 23rd June 2022, Professor Feng Hao of the Systems and Security research theme was invited as one of the two expert witnesses to give oral evidence to the Fraud Act 2006 and Digital Fraud Committee appointed by the House of Lords at Parliament on trends of telephone frauds and the landscape of counter-fraud technologies. This is related to an ongoing EPSRC project, led by Professor Feng Hao (PI) from the Department of Computer Science and Dr Adrian von Mühlenen (co-I) from the Department of Psychology, the University of Warwick. In this project, the research team have been investigating a cost-effective solution to combat caller ID spoofing, a technique commonly used by fraudsters and scammers to pretend to call from trusted sources (e.g., banks, HMRC) as part of social engineering attacks. A transcript of the oral evidence session is published on the Parliament website.
WATE Winner
We would like to congratulate Alex Dixon on his recent win in the Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence!
Alex has made a huge impact within the department this year and it is great to see his hard work going rewarded with this prestigious award in the Postgraduates who teach category. You can find more information about the WATE awards here.
HPC Research Accepted for Publication at the ICS 2022 Conference
Two papers by researchers at the Department of Computer Science have been accepted to the 36th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing ICS 2022 to be held on the 28-30th of June this year. ICS is one of the most prominent and revered conferences in High Performance Computing, highly regarded by the HPC community for publishing leading-edge research in this area. The two papers accepted are:
- High Throughput Multidimensional Tridiagonal System Solvers on FPGAs (Preprint) by Kamalavasan Kamalakkannan and Gihan Mudalige at Warwick, together with Istvan Reguly (PPCU) and Suhaib Fahmy (KAUST).
- Clairvoyant: A Log-Based Transformer-Decoder for Failure Prediction in Large-Scale Systems by Khalid Alharthi and Arshad Jhumka at Warwick, together with Sheng Di, Franck Cappello at Argonne National Laboratory. Preprint. The ACM ICS2022 full program can be found here.
Warwick Computer Science ranked 4th in Research Excellence Framework 2021
The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the UK’s system for assessing the quality of research in the country's higher education institutions.
The results of the 2021 REF rank Warwick Computer Science 4th out of 90 UK computing departments. This cements our position as one of the top Computer Science departments in the UK, a position we have held for some time under different assessment methodologies.