Month: October 2025

From Honours Project to Open-Source Application: Developing a Wireshark ILNP Dissector

Wireshark is one of the world’s most widely used network analysis tools, and it comes with great pride that recent graduate Shubh Sinhal’s CS4099 Project “Wireshark and ILNP” has been included within the tool’s official codebase. Shubh developed a Wireshark ILNP dissector that could be used for the ease of study for researchers and students From Honours Project to Open-Source Application: Developing a Wireshark ILNP Dissector

AI Seminar – Symbolic reasoning with Dr Ruth Hoffmann Wednesday 29 October

Please join us for an in-person event entitled ‘Symbolic reasoning’ on Wednesday 29 October 2025 between 1:30pm and 3pm. To help monitor attendance, please register using the link below. This event is open to all members of the community at the University of St Andrews.   Speaker: Dr Ruth Hoffman, School of Computer Science, University of St AI Seminar – Symbolic reasoning with Dr Ruth Hoffmann Wednesday 29 October

PGR Seminar – Erdem Kus & Junyu Zhang

You are warmly invited to the next PGR Seminar. Date & Time: Monday 20/10/2025 14:00-15:00 Location: JC 1.33A Speaker: Erdem Kus Title: Frugal Algorithm Selection for Combinatorial Search Abstract: Solvers for combinatorial search and optimisation problems often exhibit highly complementary performance: instances that are hard for one solver may be easy for another. The Algorithm Selection PGR Seminar – Erdem Kus & Junyu Zhang

Fully-funded PhD scholarship in Artificial Intelligence and Copyright

The University of St Andrews School of Computer Science and the Macquarie University Law School are pleased to offer a Global Doctoral Scholarship in the area of Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law: The Problem of Authorship. This PhD scholarship is fully-funded and includes fees (home or international) and a stipend for 3.5 years. The PhD Fully-funded PhD scholarship in Artificial Intelligence and Copyright

🎉PhD Viva Success: Zihan Zhang 🎉

Congratulations to Zihan Zhang (supervised by Dr Blesson Varghese) who has passed his PhD viva subject to minor corrections. Thanks to Dr Poonam Yadav (University of York) for serving as the external examiner.

PGR Seminar – Qurat ul ain Shaheen

You are warmly invited to the next PRG Seminar. Date & Time: Monday 13/10/2025 14:00-14:40 Location: JC 1.33A Speaker: Qurat ul ain Shaheen Title: A Framework for Uncertainty Sampling in Active Learning Abstract: Uncertainty sampling is an active learning paradigm where data instances representing maximum uncertainty for a machine learning model are selected for training. This PGR Seminar – Qurat ul ain Shaheen

New Chair in Artificial Intelligence

Professor Lars Kotthoff has been appointed as the Johann and Gaynor Rupert Chair in Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the University of St Andrews. The role, based in the School of Computer Science, is a crucial appointment to explore and advance the critical role of AI, both now and in the future. Professor Kotthoff completed his New Chair in Artificial Intelligence

Young Software Engineer of the Year 2025 Awards

Huge congratulations to Verity Powel, a winner at last night’s Young Software Engineer of the Year Awards (https://www.scotlandis.com/blog/rugby-video-tech-scores-top-award-for-st-andrews-student/). Her final year project “Video Analytics For Rugby Skills Training” was nominated by the school (https://blogs.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/csblog/2025/07/28/nomination-to-young-software-engineering-of-the-year-awards-2025/) in June. The awards were announced at the ScotSoft 2025 (https://www.scotlandis.com/scotsoft-2025/), Scotland’s leading tech conference at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. Young Software Engineer of the Year 2025 Awards

PGR Seminar – David Morrison

You are warmly invited to the next PRG Seminar. Date & Time: Monday 06/10/2025 14:00-14:40 Location: JC 1.33A Speaker: David Morrison Title: Synthetic Whole Slide Image Patch Embeddings for Multiple Instance Learning Abstract: Obtaining high-quality data is a persistent challenge for the training of computational pathology models. As medical data, Whole-slide images (WSIs) are often held PGR Seminar – David Morrison