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PhD viva success: Gökberk Koçak

Please join me in congratulating Gökberk Koçak, who has just passed his PhD viva subject to minor corrections. Gökberk is supervised by Özgür Akgün and Ian Miguel Thanks to Susmit Sarkar for serving as internal examiner and David Bergman (UConn) for serving as the external examiner.

PhD viva success: Janis Wong

Congratulations to Janis Wong, supervised by Tristan Henderson (CS) and Kirstie Ball (Management), who has passed her PhD viva subject to minor corrections. Thanks to Alison Powell (LSE) for serving as the external examiner.

REF Results

We’re delighted that the world-leading quality of our research has been recognised in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework. Congratulations to all members of our School! More Information on CS Ref results can be found on our Research page

Congratulations Tristan!

Congratulations to Tristan who has won Outstanding Dissertation, Thesis, or Project Supervisor at this years Students’ Association Teaching Awards. This award recognizes excellent guidance and support offered by a staff member during a student learning or research project, including postgraduate research, postgraduate taught, and undergraduate dissertations/theses. Since 2009/10, the Students’ Association has organised the Teaching Congratulations Tristan!

PhD viva success: Ryo Yanagida

Congratulations Ryo on passing your Viva! Mobility Multihoming Duality for the Internet Protocol In the current Internet, mobile devices with multiple connectivity are becoming increasingly common; however, the Internet protocol itself has not evolved accordingly. Instead, add-on mechanisms have emerged, but they do not integrate well. Currently, the user suffers from disruption to communication on PhD viva success: Ryo Yanagida

Congratulations David Letham!

Congratulations to David Letham who has been invited to the Gives Back Awards 2022, on behalf of University of St Andrews Charities Campaign. David is one of the first winners of the making a difference Award. This new Award comes from students and staff who would like to nominate members of staff who have gone Congratulations David Letham!

Only One day to go until SISCO!

SISCO Conference, 5 & 6 February Ian Gent, Chris Jefferson and Simon Dobson are all presenting at the SISCO conference this weekend. There will be social and networking events which include free food in the medicine cafeteria. We think that these will be nice opportunities for all students, speakers and staff to get to know Only One day to go until SISCO!

Congratulations to our Emeritus Professor Ian Sommerville

Very many congratulations to our Emeritus Professor Ian Sommerville who has recently been awarded the 2022 Nancy Mead award for excellence in software engineering education. https://mycseet.wordpress.com/nancy-mead-award-terms-of-reference/ The award will be presented at the (virtual) Conference for Software Engineering and Training next month. This Award goes to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding contributions to software engineering Congratulations to our Emeritus Professor Ian Sommerville

Welcoming Prof. Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo for our DLS on Tuesday 9 November

As part of the schools Distinguished Lecture Series we look forward to welcoming Prof. Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo on Tuesday 9 November. Prof. Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo  received her Ph.D. in Software Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in 1999. After spending two years at CERN (the European Center for Welcoming Prof. Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo for our DLS on Tuesday 9 November

$2.2 million funding for former CS students

Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini, along with former CS students Ali Khajeh-Hosseini and Alistair Scott saw an untapped market to help engineers lower their cloud computing costs, creating Infracost as a result. Infracost provides developers with cloud cost estimates based on changes they make to their code infrastructure. Hassan, the CEO, who attended The Robert Gordon University and $2.2 million funding for former CS students