We’re thrilled to share some fantastic news and congratulate Saleem on being selected as one of the recipients of the ICANN Grant Program for his project: “Deployability of ILNP at Global Scale.” The announcement was officially made by ICANN on May 29, 2025, as part of their first-ever cohort of grant recipients. You can read the full announcement … Congratulations to Saleem!
The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 30th May at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below are the Titles and Abstracts for Lina and Victor’s talks – Please do come along if you are able. Lina Hadji-Kyriacou Title: Context-PEFT: Efficient Cross-Domain Transfer Learning Abstract: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) techniques such as LoRA, BitFit and IA3 … PGR Seminar – Lina Hadji-Kyriacou + Victor Yuan
On Thursday 22nd May the EDI committee hosted a talk on “Why Do We Need Diversity in Research Software Engineering?” by the Software Sustainability Institute Fellows Deborah Udoh (OLS) https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/deborah-udoh and Olexandr Konovalov (St Andrews) https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/olexandr-konovalov. On display we had a collection of posters designed by students to promote and raise awareness of EDI aspects, … EDI Talk: Why Do We Need Diversity in Research Software Engineering
The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 23rd May at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below are the Titles and Abstracts for Thomas and Charis’ talks – Please do come along if you are able. Thomas Martin Title: From Isolated to Continuous Automated Sign Language Recognition Abstract: Sign languages are full-fledged visual natural languages … PGR Seminar with Thomas Martin + Charis Hanna
The next Digital Heath Science Initiative Seminar details are as follows:- Wednesday 21st May Jack Cole 133B 12-2pm
Congratulations to Bailey, who has successfully defended his PhD thesis with minor corrections. Bailey was supervised by Dr Blesson Varghese. Thanks to Dr Yehia Elkhatib from the University of Glasgow, who was the external examiner, and Dr Peter Macgregor from our School, who was the internal examiner.
We are excited to invite you to a special SACHI seminar this week with Prof Sampsa Hyysalo, who will be visiting us from Aalto University in Finland. This is a great opportunity to hear from one of the leading voices in participatory design and user innovation. 📅 Friday 23rd May | 🕛 15:00 – 16:00 PM … SACHI Seminar – Prof Sampsa Hyysalo: Design Participation | Fri 23 May, 15:00–16:00, JCB 1.33A
The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 16th May at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below are the Titles and Abstracts for Tilcia and Thu’s talks – Please do come along if you are able. Tilcia Woodville-price Title: Definitely, Maybe? Communicating Uncertainty In Medicine Abstract: An inherent aspect of healthcare and data science alike, … PGR Seminar with Tilcia Woodville-price + Thu Nguyen
The school hosted a highly successful outreach event on May 8th, welcoming S1 pupils from Madras College to the school. Attendees had the opportunity to explore the development of computing technology through the ages and interact with a large number of interactive technology demonstrations and exhibits. It was lovely to see how well behaved and … Successful Technology Through The Ages Event with Madras College
There will be a Research Software Group Lunchtime Seminar on Friday May 23rd at 1pm, in room 1.33B. Talk Title: “People First: Sustaining Research Software by Sustaining the People Who Build It” Speakers are Software Sustainability Institute Fellows: Deborah Udoh (OLS) and Olexandr Konovalov (St Andrews) – https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/deborah-udoh – https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/olexandr-konovalov Abstract What does it mean to build … Research Software Group Lunchtime Seminar – Friday 23rd May