The School of Computer Science has made a number of excellent appointments over the past couple of months:
Dr Luca Canzian
![Canzian](/Images/College-EPS-only/comp-sci/newstaff/Canzian79x99.x4c967147.jpg?q=80&f=webp&w=1440)
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research interests:
- Data mining and stream mining techniques for Big Data.
- Online learning in distributed environments.
- Strategic network formation to model bacterial social behaviour.
- Game theory and mechanism design in distributed multi-agent systems
Dr Michael Denzel
Research Associate
Research interests:
- IT Security
- Malware, especially rootkits
Dr Gurchetan Grewal
![Grewal](/Images/College-EPS-only/comp-sci/newstaff/Grewal74x98.xb4d85744.jpg?q=80&f=webp&w=1440)
Research Associate
Research interests:
- Electronic voting
- Privacy in Social networks
Dr Mihaela Popa-Wyatt
![Popa-Wyatt](/Images/College-EPS-only/comp-sci/newstaff/Popa-Wyatt133x99.x619bd639.jpg?q=80&f=webp&w=1440)
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Formal models of the Semantics-Pragmatics of Figurative Speech
- Accommodating context-sensitivity within a theory of human communication, in particular how context-sensitivity affects compositionality.
- Semantics-pragmatics of 'bad' words like slurs and pejoratives in relation to broader issues about expressivism
Mr Minlue Wang
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Monitoring plan execution in partially observable worlds
- Planning, execution monitoring, fault diagnosis, and robotics
Other appointments include:
- Morteza Azad, Research Fellow
- Miss Kiren Bains, Assistant Administrator Teaching Support
- Miss Melissa Fletcher, Academic Administration Officer
- Mr Piotr Kordy. Research Fellow
- Miss Andrea Radu, Research Associate
- Mr Alexander Smith, Research Fellow