Networking and Data Communications with Management Studies MSc: Who teaches this course

• Staff teaching on this course

The Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing teaches this course. The Faculty's wide selection of undergraduate and postgraduate courses covers a diverse range of subject areas, from aerospace to geography; from maths and computing to biotechnology; and many more. Our collaborative set-up provides new opportunities for our students, and we design our courses with industry professionals to ensure you stay up to date with the latest developments.

Computing and Information Systems

The School of Computing and Information Systems offers high-quality undergraduate and postgraduate courses, designed to reflect the developing needs of business and industry. We deliver our teaching in an exciting and challenging learning environment, and make use of modern, well-equipped facilities.

Our courses cover the range of modern technologies in computer science, information systems and software engineering, with specialisations in games technology; network and wireless technologies; information security; electronic business; and embedded systems.

Dr Miroslav Novak

Title: Principal lecturer and director of postgraduate programmes
Email: novak@kingston.ac.uk 

Dr Novak is the director of postgraduate programmes for the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing. He is responsible for the taught MSc degrees' quality; academic coherence; management; and operation.

Dr Novak has been teaching and researching in universities across Europe and Australia since the late '70s. By training a theoretical physicist, his work on the first supercomputer in the UK, the Cray 1S, introduced him to vector computation and led to a series of published papers. He has published 11 books and is the author of more than 40 research papers.

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Dr Ron Malyan

Title: Reader
Email: rmalyan@kingston.ac.uk 

Specialist subjects: Dr Malyan designed and developed the Networking and Data Communications MSc in 1994 and has been its course leader ever since. He is also the module leader for:

• Digital Communications;
• Multimedia Communications;
• Wireless Communications; and
• Internet Wireless Networks.

Dr Malyan's initial training was in communications engineering during his 12 years in the Navy. He then spent 13 years in industry developing data networks. For the past 20 years, he has been an academic researching and teaching data communications.

Research fields: Ron is the research leader for the Networking and Communications Research Group. He has received research grants from:

• Fujitsu – for research into Turbo Codes; and
• Symbian – for the implementation of IPv6 in mobile devices.

Dr Malyan's current research concerns the development of 'always best connected' services for heterogeneous wireless access networks. He has authored 30 conference and journal papers.