Final Year Project Supervision

I supervise BSc undergraduate students for final year projects in any suitable subject in Computer Science or Computing. Please feel free to discuss with me your interest.

1. My ideal project students would be interested in programming or computing, or often both, and should have completed successfully at least the following modules or equivalent:

   • Mathematics, year 1
   • Java programming, year 1
   • Advanced Java programming, year 1 or 2
   • Computer Communication and networks , year 2
   • Data structures and algorithms, year 2

   or will study in year 3 the following subjects:

   • Algorithm Design
   • Data Compression
   • Computer Security
   • Artificial Intelligence
   • Data Mining
   • Image Processing

   You will have difficulties in your project if you are weak in all of these subjects.

2. You should have read the subject guide by Dr D.R.K. Brownrigg, "Project", University of London, 2005 , and known how to choose your project topic.

Projects in preparation

2011-12   Proposals

I would be particularly interested in supervising projects in the following areas (but not limited to):

• Security problems
• eLearning
• Network simulation
• Multimedia compression
• Medical image processing
• Card games.

Please ask me for details if you are interested. You are also welcome to propose and discuss with me your own project proposal, but you may like to see some examples of my project proposals and past project topics below.

You should also consider the following questions and bring your draft answers to our first project meeting for further discussion:

1. What type of projects would I be interested in doing?

Choose one of the followings: A

• Computer Science (CS) project: emphases on the algorithmic ideas and implementation techniques for one specific problem.
• Information Technology (IT) project: emphases on the final application rather than the software itself.
• Computer Information Systems (CIS) project: emphases on design and implementation of a computer system for an application with a fairly general purpose.
2. How would my project demonstrate the followings?

• If it is a CS project:
  • problem
  • theory/logic
  • algorithms
  • analysis
  • simulation
  • experiments

• If it is an IT project:
  • application
  • public interest
  • impact
  • commercial value
  • educational benefits
  • community help or services

• If something in between

  Draft a list of your own ideas from the above and add more if possible, for example:

  • innovation
  • creativity
  • research
  • media values
  • advertisement
  • design, etc.

3. Produce a list for each of the following questions:

1. What do I know already?  
2. What do I not know but need to learn?  
3. What help do I hope to get from my supervisor?  
4. Is there any innovation or creativity required in my project?  What is it if there is any?
5. Does your project require any first-hand data to be collected?  How would you collect the data if there is any?

Projects in progress

2011-12

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Projects completed

2010-11

• Detecting Spam Botnet Through URL Filtering, Amel Abdi Abshir (2.1)
• Visualisation of Software Security Ecosystem, Jayanthi Suhumar (first class)
• Approach to Text Plagiarism Detection and Investigation Using Latent Semantic Analysis, Yasmin Khatun (2.1)
• Life Bible Study Application Software, Edison Puruncajas (first class)
• Decision Support Tool for Stock Forecasting and Managing Products in Grocery Supermarket, Ehsan Zare Shahneh (2.1)

 2009-10

(Sabbatical leave)

2008-9

• Sarah Bajja
• Dan Biti
• Dan Nissy
• Daniel Smith
• Sarah Wherton
• Kyoungin Yoo

2007-8

• Sunny Chotai (first class)
• Athanasios Fratzeskos (first class)
• Svibor Toth (2.1)
• Mudiagahn Ugbowanko (deferred)
• Astrit Zhushi (first class, outstanding, award winner)
• Morteza Kheirkhah (first class, outstanding)
• Mesbah Rahman
• Liem Nguyen

2006-7 (assigned students except Ronnie)

• Data Compression: An Interactive Tutorial, Adebesin Oluwatoyin Omolara (very good)
• Snooker Club Mangement Systems, Ronnie Kanj (2.1)
• Online Clinic System with Health Advisor, Costas Demetriou (2.1)
• An Interactive Tutorial Website, Azim Bhatti
• MMPlayer Developed in: Visual Basic.net 2005, Niyazi Gecici
• Traffic Simulator, Sara Sayed

2005-6

• Investigation Into Internet Security Algorithms and Techniques, Carl (Tony) Butler (postponed)
• Automated Benchmarking of Internet Connections, Daniel Elwell (excellent)
• File Viewer, Arhan Kaygana
• When a Cat and Mouse Meet, Bakis Kiswaka
• Algorithm Animator, Sukhdeep Panesar (2.1)
• Highly Secure Double Encrypted Data Transfer, Richard Moore (excellent)

2004-5

• Algorithm Visulisation, Louise Millard (first class)
• An Ad Hoc Network Model, Mustafa Absullah
• Visual Tour on Campus, Zara Awan
• A Visual Accommodation Web Site, Dilshad Khan
• Sound Space for London Underground, Khaled MD AL Faruq
• Learning and Testing, Remya Thankappan
• A Music Web Site, Xiaodong Xu

2003-4

• A Mobil System for Small Business, Madeleine Phan (first class)
• Learning Data Compression On-line, Patrick Yip (first class)
• Pattern Recognition in Sound, Rufus Morrison
• Facial Image Recoganition, Femi Osibote

2002-3

• Spaning trees of graph, Philip Thompson
• Encryption techniques used on the internet, Khaled MD AL Faruq
• On-line tutorial system for primary school, Prince Abioye
• On-line system for solicitors and their clients, Samuel Dwomoah
• Course registration system, Rikin Lakhani (almost first class)
• On-line booking system, Maharmend Haji Ali
• Web crawling algorithms, Haines Paul

2001-2

(Sabbatical leave)

2000-1

• On-line Coursework Handling System, Lisa Moon, (first class)
• Network Management, Imran Zaman, (first class)
• On-line Fishing Administration System, Peter Ready (first class)
• Compression of MIDI Files Using Various Techniques and Performance, Chris Burns
• Data Compression Methods Used on Web Based Files, Audio, Video and Text, Roland Agbetiame
• Internet Security: The Issue of Cookies, Wenying Lo
• Data Compression, Ajantna Stephen Fernando
• (help), Reba Begum

1999-2000

• Coursework Handling System, Ercan Toprak (first class)
• An adaptive HTML system, Dominic A Burt (first class?)
• Visual programming, Kobby Adu-nti
• Data Compression, Maureen Howell
• Network Performance Management, Hardip Bual
• SME and the Internet, Adedoyin Olatunde
• Story Board Security, Peter Ready
• On Web Crawling, Izzah Sheikh

1998-9

• Internet Security and Privacy Issues, Syed Anisur Rhman

1997-8

• Parsemaster - An HTML Style Checker, David Carty