News

  • Highlights: New Journal Publication
    New member of department Dr Luca Piras‘s collaborative work, “Android Source Code Vulnerability Detection: A Systematic Review” was recently accepted for the ACM Computing Surveys journal [2021 IF 14.324, ranked 3/109 in Computer Science – Theory & Methods] and can […]
  • Outstanding Presentations at RSSC2022
    Last week saw the Middlesex Research Students’ Summer Conference (RSSC2022) on the theme Knowledge in Action take place online via Zoom, which was an opportunity for our postgraduate research students to be exposed to valuable interdisciplinary conference interaction and to […]
  • PoEM 2022
    Middlesex University London and the Department of Computer Science will host the IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling (PoEM) on November 23–25, 2022. Now in its 15th edition, the Call for Papers are open on […]
  • Handbook of Smart Cities published
    The Handbook of Smart Cities, edited by Prof. Juan Carlos Augusto, is now published by the Springer. It is the largest publication in the area so far, and Prof. Juan donated to the library one of the handbooks (two volumes).
  • PC co-chair for Computer Graphics and Visual Computing (CGVC) 2021
    Dr Kai Xu is the PC co-chair for the 39th Computer Graphics and Visual Computing (CGVC) conference, which just successfully completed in early September. The CGVC conference series is the annual conference organised by EuroGraphics UK chapter. It covers everything Visualisation related, including […]
  • New Journal on Smart Cites and Society
    Prof. Juan Augusto founded a new Journal on Smart Cites and Society that is published by IOS Press. More details are available on the journal homepage.
  • Outstanding Presentation at RSSC 2021 Conference
    Congratulations to Sam Hepenstal, Leishi Zhang and William Wong, whose presentation titled ‘An Evaluation of System Transparency to Support Intellectual Judgements’ was awarded ‘Outstanding Oral Presentation’ at the Middlesex Research Student Summer Conference (RSSC) 2021! Below is the presentation abstract: […]
  • AdvMLTester by CyberASAP (Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme)
    Dr Mahdi Aiash and Dr Hector Menendez have obtained further funding to develop their AdvMLTester project into a commercial product. The project aims at detecting potentially exploitable vulnerabilities in machine learning systems. The project is funded under CyberASAP (Cyber Security Academic […]
  • Expert Fellow of the EPSRC SPRITE+ Network
    Dr Kai Xu is elected as an Expert Fellow of the EPSRC SPRITE+ Network in recognition of his expertise in data analysis and human-centred machine learning. SPRITE+ is a research network funded by EPSRC, the UK research council on engineering and physical […]
  • Dr Kai Xu is elected as a Director for the UK Chapter of the EuroGraphics Association (EGUK)
    Dr Kai Xu is elected as a Director for the UK Chapter of the EuroGraphics Association (EGUK). Founded in 1981, EGUK is the UK branch of Eurographics, a world-wide organisation devoted to the needs of professionals in computer graphics and all […]
  • New Academic Appointments
    Despite the challenges of these times, and the sad loss of Professor Miltos Petridis to the pandemic one year ago, our department has recently made – and is planning to make – a number of appointments. Professor Balbir Barn has […]
  • Machine Learning for Medical Research
    The state of the art AI technology has been playing significant role in medical fields. Recently, led by Prof Xiaohong Gao, Middlesex University is in partnership with several other institutions and NHS hospitals working on AI in early detection of […]
  • EPSRC grant to support Covid19 modelling
    Dr Kai Xu is a co-investigator on the EPSRC grant RAMP VIS that aims to support epidemiologists in the fight against Covid19. It started as a volunteer effort, led by Prof. Min Chen from Oxford University. A team of 20 visualisation researchers […]
  • Prof Juan Augusto is now a member of the BCS-SGAI Steering Committee
    Prof Juan Augusto has been appointed (from December 2020 onwards) as a member of the BCS-SGAI Steering Committee. BCS SGAI is the Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence from the British Computer Society. The full list of committee members can be seen here
  • IDC Special Seminar: “Designed Intelligence” by Dr Connor Upton (Accenture)
    TITLE: Designed Intelligence SPEAKER: Dr Connor Upton, Group Design Director, Fjord at the Dock, Accenture, Dublin DATE: Tuesday, 19 Jan 2021, 3-4.15pm (London time). LOCATION: Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/94355790919?pwd=cWZGT1dlRVRianJET2Uyd1Vlcjg0Zz09 Channel opens at 2:45 PM London Meeting ID: 943 5579 0919 […]
  • Departmental Team wins BCS Machine Intelligence Competition
    The Research Group on Development of Intelligent Environments, headed by Prof Juan Carlos Augusto from the department of Computer Science, won the first prize in this year British Computer Society (BCS) Machine Intelligence Competition which took place at BCS Headquarters […]
  • Women students attend BCS Lovelace Colloquium and win prize!
    The Women in Computing group at Middlesex was founded in 2014. The purpose of this group is to bring together Middlesex-affiliated women who are studying or interested in Computing and to share common interests, concerns and ambitions. We have 58 […]
  • FroCoS and TABLEAUX coming to Middlesex in September
      This year’s edition of two long-standing international conferences, FroCoS 2019 and TABLEAUX 2019, will take place at Middlesex University on September 2–6. They cover a broad range of theoretical and practical aspects pertaining to formal logic, proof systems, automated deduction and […]
  • 10th anniversary for the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
    A journal created and edited by one of our academic staff, Professor Juan Carlos Augusto, recently completed its 10th year of publication. The Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments was one of the first journals in the area and continues […]
  • Prof. Chris Huyck on “AI: The Rise of the Machines”
    Prof. Chris Huyck will be a panelist for the debate on the rise of Artificial Intelligence and the impact robots and automation will have on have on jobs, society and the UK economy. This event is organised by Parliament Street […]