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Computer Science, Loughborough

Founded in 1974, the Department of Computer Science was among the first university computing departments to be established in Great Britain. The Research School of Informatics was established in December 2004 as part of a new £100M University expansion in a number of areas. It is located in a new building equipped to the highest standards. The school's mission is research excellence founded upon the strengths of research groups in the departments of Computer Science and Information Science.

Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008

The results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), published in December, have confirmed Loughborough as one of the country's leading research universities.

Computer Science Department

90% of the Department's research is of an international standard (rated 2*, 3* or 4* in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise) as classified under the Computer Science and Informatics category.

Teaching Quality Assessment

In 2003 the Department received the highest available commendation for its teaching quality from the Quality Assurance Agency. In the first national poll of how satisfied final year students were with their degree course - the National Student Survey (2005) - Loughborough topped the table for overall satisfaction and also for learning resources and organisation and management. The survey placed the Department of Computer Science at Loughborough top of the league for the most satisfied computing students among 81 participating computing departments in the country (Times Higher, 23 September 2005). In 2006 the Department was placed 3rd overall and, when considering results over the last two years, places the Department first out of 84 departments.

 

National Student Survey

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PhD Students who have recently graduated

Congratulations to the following students who have successfully defended their thesis:

Xi Guo, PhD, "Remote control service system architecture and dynamic web user interface generation."
Yan Chen, PhD, "Intelligent computing applications based on eye-gaze: their role in mammographic interpretation training."
Yanning Yan, PhD, "Wireless sensor data processing for on-site emergency response."
Thomas Warsop, PhD, "Three-dimensional scene recovery for measuring sighting distances of rail track assets from monocular forward facing videos."
Fatem Al-Abri, PhD, "Multi-objective optimization of video coding and transcoding."
Firat Batmaz, PhD, "Semi-automatic assessment of students' graph-based diagrams."
Jose Lopes, PhD, "Audio-coupled video context understanding of unconstrained video sequences."
Aslina Saad, PhD, "A case-based system for lesson plan construction."
Jassim Al-Hamar, PhD, "Towards internet voting in the State of Qatar."
Lee Booi Lim, PhD, "Network delay control through adaptive queue management."
Mohammad Athar Ali, PhD, "Digital Rights Management Techniques for H.264 Video."


National Science and Engineering Week

National Science and Engineering Week (March 9th - 18th) gives people the chance to participate in science and engineering events both on campus and around Leicestershire with a series of practical activities and lectures throughout the 9 days.

Please check this website for more information. http://www.lboro.ac.uk/nsew/


e-skills UK intern wins 2012 National Placement and Internship Awards

Department of Computer Science student Lillian Hiscox wins the Best Placement Student Award at the 2012 National Placement and Internship Awards. For further details, [Click Here...]

Loughborough University Open Days (21st and 22nd September 2011)

The Department of Computer Science Open Day Helpers in their smart new uniforms.
Open Day

Summer Placement a Great Success for Computer Science Student

Alex Barfoot, a Computer Science student at the University has made good use of a ten week summer placement in the department, by developing new software for Requirements Engineering. A recipient of an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Summer Vacation Scholarship, Alex has been working alongside Dr Russell Lock in the development of a unique platform to help train the next generation of Requirement Engineers. The Simple Tool for Requirement Elicitation, Analysis and Management (STREAM) is designed to support student learning for Requirements Engineering. Dr Lock said "By providing an entirely free tool to the world to help both students and industry store and analysis textual requirements we are helping to raise both awareness and requirement standards." The software developed will be deployed as a free training tool for students, providing an environment to support students in managing requirements for project work. The tool is also able to analyse requirements for errors or omissions, giving guidance on what should be changed and why. The department plans to take forward the research started by Alex through publication, and a future research proposal. More information on the tool developed is available on: http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~corl/stream/index.html
EPSRC vacation scholarships are designed to give students a taste of what a life in research would be like and prove popular across the university each year.

 

Best Student Paper Award

Congratulations go to Computer Science Research Student; Nesreen Otoum, whose paper titled "Quantification of Corneal Neovascularization via Contourlet Transform based Segmentation of Blood Vessels" has won the Best Student Paper Award at the International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, held recently in Jordan. This work was carried out in collaboration with a group lead by Professor Harminder Dua, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham University, during the first year of Nesreen's PhD research.

Science Student Poster Competition 2011

The annual Science Student Poster Competition was held at Holywell Park on 14th April 2011. The winners are as follows:

Sabrina Blackwell (Maths) - Winner of the Best Poster prize (£200)
Thomas Smith (Chemistry) - Winner of the Second prize (£150)
Hui-Yun Sung (DIS) - Winner of the Commendation prize (£100)
Sara Saravi (Computer Science) - Winner of the Commendation prize (£100)
Thomas Hewett (Physics) - Winner of the Commendation prize (£100)
Moustafa Moustafa (Computer Science) - Winner of 'Apical Limited Prize' for a Computer Science Research Student (£75)
Afizan Azman (Computer Science) - Winner of 'Apical Limited Prize' for a Computer Science Research Student (£75)

Statistical Downscaling Model (SDSM)

The Department of Computer Science successfully held an international workshop on statistical downscaling in April looking at the affects of climate change on regional weather. Twenty one delegates from countries as far afield as Malaysia, Korea, South Africa, Jamaica, Canada and Norway completed the two-day workshop hosted by Dr Christian Dawson of Computer Science and Professor Rob Wilby from the Department of Geography. Delegates were given a number of presentations on downscaling and hands-on practical sessions in the Department's newly refurbished labs using SDSM - the d
ownscaling software tool developed by the hosts.

Graduate School Research Student Prize 2011

Markus Schmid who is currently studying for a PhD in the Department of Computer Science was recently awarded the Graduate School Research Student Prize 2011 (worth £400). This prize is awarded annually to a research student of the Faculty of Science for outstanding academic performance and academic achievement.

Distinguished Paper Award

Mrs Mashanum Osman, a research student in the Department of Computer Science, was presented one of the Distinguished Paper Awards at the e-CASE 2011 Conference in Tokyo for her joint paper with her supervisor Prof Paul Chung. The paper entitled "Language Learning using Texting and Wiki: A Malaysian Context" reports the results of an experiment she conducted as part of her research project.