News

We are delighted to announce that Professor Juan Augusto, Head of the Research Group on Development of Intelligent Environments and the Smart Spaces Lab at Middlesex University’s Department of Computer Science, recently delivered a keynote address at the BIOSTEC 2024… Read more: BIOSTEC 2024

Staff members Giacomo Nalli, Mahdi Aiash and Sukhvinder Hara have recently been successful with two separate projects (AI-Bility 4D and Capable) in bidding for the 2023/24 cohort of CyberASAP, a government-funded cyber security academic startup accellerator programme in two phases… Read more: Highlights: CyberASAP funding

Professor Juan Augusto recently chaired the 19th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE’23), hosted this year on Middlesex University’s sister campus in Flic en Flac, a beautiful location on the western shore of the island of Mauritius.

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… Read more: Highlights: New Journal Publication

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… Read more: Outstanding Presentations at RSSC2022

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… Read more: PoEM 2022

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).

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… Read more: PC co-chair for Computer Graphics and Visual Computing (CGVC) 2021

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.

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:… Read more: Outstanding Presentation at RSSC 2021 Conference

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… Read more: AdvMLTester by CyberASAP (Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme)

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… Read more: Expert Fellow of the EPSRC SPRITE+ Network

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… Read more: Dr Kai Xu is elected as a Director for the UK Chapter of the EuroGraphics Association (EGUK)

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… Read more: New Academic Appointments

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… Read more: Machine Learning for Medical Research

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… Read more: EPSRC grant to support Covid19 modelling

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

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… Read more: IDC Special Seminar: “Designed Intelligence” by Dr Connor Upton (Accenture)

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… Read more: Departmental Team wins BCS Machine Intelligence Competition

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… Read more: Women students attend BCS Lovelace Colloquium and win prize!