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Radiator control system could slash domestic fuel bills

A new radiator control system, developed by Loughborough University's computer scientists, could one day reduce a family's domestic energy use by 40 per cent. Read more....

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 downscaling 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.

Faculty of Engineering Award

Mr James Wright received the Faculty of Engineering Award for his outstanding academic achievements and contributions to community service while studing for his MSc in 2009/10. His MSc project, in the area of bioinformatics, was jointly supervised by Dr Diganta Das (Department of Chemical Engineering) and Professor Paul Chung (Department of Computer Science). Mr Wright is now studying for his PhD with the same supervisors.

Left to right, Prof Paul Chung, Mr James Wright, Prof Chris Rielly (Head of Chemial Engineering)

Opening of Usability Lab

The Research School of Informatics working with the Department of Computer Science, Ergonomics and Safety Research Institute, and the Department of Information Science have established a Usability Lab with money allocated from the Research Capital Investment Fund. The Lab was officially opened by Professor Ken Parsons, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Research on 9th December 2009. The Lab is equipped with a range of state-of-the art facilities for investigating human-computer interaction. See photos of the opening and some of the facilities - click here

Finalist, IET Innovation Awards 2009

A joint project between BAE Systems, Loughborough University and Aberystwyth University, was one of the finalists of the IET Innovation Awards 2009. There to attend the award ceremony on 25th November 2009 at the Nursery Pavilion, Lord's Cricket Ground and to receive a certificate of recognition from the IET were Dr John Pearson (SEIC), Mr Clive Downes (BAE Systems) and Professor Paul Chung (Director, Research School of Informatics). The ASTRAEA project developed a systems framework for integrated vehicle health management and advisory systems for uninhabited air vehicles (UAV'S).

The 2009 Enterprise Awards

The Consultancy Award for Enterprise was presented to Professor Alastair Gale, head of the Applied Vision Research Centre for PERFORMS ('PERsonal perFORmance in Mammographic Screeding'). PERFORMS has been playing a critical role in improving and maintaining the diagnosis of breast cancer since the NHS began breast screening over 20 years ago and it is planned to licence variations of the scheme worldwide. The evening was a double celebration for Alastair and his team as it has just been confirmed that £1.2M over four years has been awarded from the NHS for the continuation of PERFORMS.

IEEE Best Student Paper

PhD student Martin Sykora was awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the 3rd IEEE SOFA 2009 (International Workshop on Soft Computing and Applications 2009), held in Szeged (Hungary) / Arad (Romania), 29th July - 1st August 2009. All student papers were considered for best IEEE SOFA 2009 student paper award.

Best Student Paper

Computer Science student, Hesham Abusaimeh won the best student paper prize at the 14th International Conference on Automation and Computing, London on 6th September 2008. His paper is titled 'Dynamic cluster head for lifetime efficiency in WSN (wireless sensor networks).''