Agroup of third year students from the School of Computing and Information Technology (SCIT), Jamaica is now preparing to present their research papers at the 10th International Conference on Computer and Information Science and Technology in Paris this summer.
The students are Giselle Smalling, Kristen Braham, Lamar Haye, Briana Palmer, Katoni Sheilds, Jamie-Lee Foreman, Tahjaye Edwards, Lilly Whyte, Shaquille Ford, Khavar Facey and Tian McFarlane.
The students’ invitation to present their research stems from their enrolment in the core module Computer Research Methods (CRM), taught by Ian McGowan, lecturer, School of Computing and Information Technology, UTech, Jamaica. As part of their coursework, they were tasked with conducting comprehensive and critical literature reviews on carefully curated research topics. Impressed by the quality of their work, McGowan submitted four papers for review, all of which were accepted for the conference.
He explained that while he has always challenged the students to delve deep into their research and to produce strong papers, they exceeded his expectations this time around so much that he was compelled to have them share their work with an international audience.
“From the CRM module, we got some papers written by the students in groups. The papers were submitted for the conference and fortunately they accepted all four papers as being at a really good level, so they want to hear from these students there in Paris” McGowan shared. “I am really glad that they took the module seriously along with my guidance of writing at a high level and that they chose topics that are relevant, not just for the conference, but for the research community,” he added.
President of the University of Technology, Jamaica Dr Kevin Brown congratulated the students on their achievement, noting the university’s commitment to academic excellence. “You are at the birthplace of greatness, and we do push you students to excel. Over the years we have been producing students who have really done some great work whether through international competitions or after they graduate, they excel in their career, so I am not surprised we are here,” he stated.
Encouraging the students to continue their research beyond the conference, Dr Brown, added “We desperately need more students to stay back and do research., “I wonder how many of you will now pursue a master’s or PhD and continue to be a curious scientist…there is so much more you can do”, he stated.
Research Papers to be Presented in Paris
The four papers accepted for presentation at the conference are:
Performance Benchmarking of File Systems: Addressing the Challenges of Growing Data and Metadata Complexity – Lilly Whyte, Tahjaye Edwards, Jamie-Lee Foreman and Kristen Barham.
Detecting Injection Attacks in RESTful APIs: A Literature Review – Khavar Facey, Tian McFarlane, Shaquille Ford, Nicholas Henlon and Katoni Shields.
Evaluating the Impact of Metadata Structures on File System Performance and User Accessibility in Modern Data Environments – Serena Morris, Lamar Haye and Giselle Smalling.
An Infrastructure Design Strategy to Optimize Data Transmission in Property Security IoT Devices – Briana Palmer.
