Month: November 2024

PGR Seminar with Zhongliang Guo

The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below is a title and Abstract for Zhongliang’s talk– Please do come along if you are able. Title: Adversarial Attack as a Defense: Preventing Unauthorized AI Generation in Computer Vision Abstract: Adversarial attack is a technique that generate adversarial examples by PGR Seminar with Zhongliang Guo

PGR Seminar with Carla Davesa Sureda

The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 22nd November at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below is a Title and Abstract for Carla’s talk – Please do come along if you are able. Title: Towards High-Level Modelling in Automated Planning Abstract: Planning is a fundamental activity, arising frequently in many contexts, from daily tasks PGR Seminar with Carla Davesa Sureda

Fully funded PhD scholarship in Algorithms for Data Science

Lead supervisor: Dr Peter Macgregor Application deadline: 1 March 2025 Project description: Modern data science and machine learning applications involve datasets with millions of data points and hundreds of dimensions. For example, deep learning pipelines produce massive vector datasets representing text, image, audio and other data types. The analysis of such datasets with classical algorithms Fully funded PhD scholarship in Algorithms for Data Science

AI Seminar Tuesday 19th November – Francesco Leofante

The School is hosting an AI seminar on Tuesday 19th November at 11am in JCB1.33A/B Our speaker is Francesco Leofante from Imperial College London. Title: Robustness issues in algorithmic recourse. Abstract: Counterfactual explanations (CEs) are advocated as being ideally suited to providing algorithmic recourse for subjects affected by the predictions of machine learning models. While AI Seminar Tuesday 19th November – Francesco Leofante

The Power of Tech in Sustainability, Inclusion, & Community: Mind and Matter 2024

The North Haugh campus was brimming with bubbling experiments, interactive activities, and research displays as St Andrews welcomed in its Mind and Matter Festival 2024 on 27th October 2024. As a festival dedicated to inspiring creativity and curiosity from the lens of various disciplines, we were thrilled to see three of our very own researchers The Power of Tech in Sustainability, Inclusion, & Community: Mind and Matter 2024

PhD Viva Success: Yingxue Fu

On behalf of the school, we would like to congratulate Yingxue Fu supervised by Mark-Jan Nederhoff, who has passed their PhD viva with minor corrections. Thanks to Dr Alice Tonilo who was internal examiner and Professor Amir Zeldes from Georgetown University as external examiner. Many congratulations to Yingxue!

PGR Seminar with Ariane Hine

The PGR seminars for this academic year are beginning this Friday 8th November at 2PM in JC 1.33A/B Below is a title and Abstract for Ariane’s talk – Please do come along if you are able. Title: Enhancing and Personalising Endometriosis Care with Causal Machine Learning Abstract: Endometriosis poses significant challenges in diagnosis and management PGR Seminar with Ariane Hine