Data Science News
Warwick at 60 - DCS Celebrations
The University was celebrating it's 60th Anniversary at the weekend. The Department of Computer Science showcased a range of projects and hosted alumni from 1978 - 2025.
Kaihua Qin joins the department as an Assistant Professor
We are happy to announce that Dr Kaihua Qin has joined the Department of Computer Science as an Assistant Professor. Before joining Warwick, he was a researcher at Yale University and completed his PhD at Imperial College London.
Kaihua’s research spans computer security with a particular focus on blockchain systems. His past work has revealed critical vulnerabilities in blockchains, such as MEV and imitation attacks, which affect multiple layers of the stack, from networking and consensus to applications. His current work aims to establish provable security for decentralized systems, drawing on techniques from program analysis, distributed computing, formal verification, applied cryptography, and game theory.
In addition, he is actively exploring the use of AI for security, leveraging recent advances in large language models to enhance vulnerability discovery, assessment, and mitigation across a variety of systems.
We welcome him to the department!
Workshop Algorithms & Complexity @ Warwick
The workshop Algorithms & Complexity @ Warwick took place at the University of Warwick on September 22-23, 2025 (see https://sites.google.com/view/algorithmscomplexitywarwick2/home for more details).
The aim of the event was to highlight several recent exciting advances in the field of Algorithms and Complexity, to facilitate interactions within the research community, and to provide an excellent opportunity for Theory researchers (including academics, postdocs, and students) to connect and collaborate.
We had a fantastic list of invited speakers by renowned world experts: Albert Atserias (Technical University of Catalonia), Raheleh Jalali (University of Bath), Sanjeev Khanna (University of Pennsylvania), Tomasz Kociumaka (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Michal Koucký (Charles University in Prague), Or Meir (University of Sheffield and University of Haifa), Rahul Santhanam (University of Oxford), Thomas Sauerwald (University of Cambridge), Roei Tell (University of Toronto).