Month: August 2025

🎉PhD Viva Success: Yaxiong Lei 🎉

Congratulations to Yaxiong Lei (supervised by Dr Juan Ye) who has passed his PhD viva subject to minor corrections. Thanks to Yu Guan (University of Warwick) for serving as the external examiner.

🎉PhD Viva Success: Halite Abudureyimu🎉

Massive congratulations to Halite Abudureyimu who has passed his PhD with only minor corrections. Very well done indeed! Thanks to the two external examiners Mauro Dragone and Gerado Aragon Camarasa. Halite was supervised by Kasim Terzić.

Research Activities by Open Virtual Worlds Research Group

Throughout July, the research group Open Virtual Worlds from the School of Computer Science was involved in digitalising the archaeological artefacts, historical sites, and natural landscapes in collaboration with their important partner, Timespan Museum in Helmsdale, Highlands. Two PhD students, Junyu Zhang and Sharon Pisani, who are researching digital heritage and sustainability, were using 360 Research Activities by Open Virtual Worlds Research Group

🎉Award Congratulations to Dr Di Wu – IEEE IoT PhD Thesis Competition 🎉

Congratulations to Dr Di Wu for an outstanding achievement of third place in the inaugural IEEE  IoT PhD thesis competition. Di’s thesis, “Distributed Machine Learning on Edge Computing Systems” truly stood out among the impressive nominations. The judging panel, comprising leading experts in the field, meticulously evaluated each submission based on the following criteria: Problem 🎉Award Congratulations to Dr Di Wu – IEEE IoT PhD Thesis Competition 🎉

Talk from St Andrews Entrepreneurship – Innovation Insights

11.30am – 12.00pm followed by “Ask Me Anything” in Jack Cole Coffee Area 12.00pm-1.00pm 3rd September 2025 JC 1.33A/B Join us for Innovation Insights, an interactive session designed to showcase how the University of St Andrews Entrepreneurship Centre supports staff and students to turn ideas into real-world innovation and impact. The session will introduce the Talk from St Andrews Entrepreneurship – Innovation Insights