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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

PhD Student Tai Nguyen Wins Best Paper Award at GECCO 2025

Tai Nguyen, supervised by Dr. Nguyen Dang (University of St Andrews) and Dr. Carola Doerr (CNRS Researcher, Sorbonne Université, France), has been awarded the prestigious Best Paper Award at GECCO 2025, held in Málaga, Spain, from July 14–18, 2025. GECCO (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference) is the leading international conference in its field, known for PhD Student Tai Nguyen Wins Best Paper Award at GECCO 2025

Nomination to Young Software Engineering of the Year Awards 2025

Congratulations to our Senior Honours student, Verity Powell, who is nominated for the Young Software Engineering of the Year Awards 2025. She is invited to attend the awards dinner, taking place at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on Thursday 25th September. Verity is a Computer Science graduate, and played for the University’s Women’s 1XV Rugby Nomination to Young Software Engineering of the Year Awards 2025

Permutation Patterns 2025

The University is hosting the 23rd International Conference on Permutation Patterns https://sites.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/pp25/ It is a series of annual conferences on permutation patterns that have been held annually since 2003. Last time the conference was held in St Andrews was in 2007. This year the conference is organised by Ruth Hoffmann (CS, St Andrews) and Christian Permutation Patterns 2025

PGR Seminar: Xinya Gong

The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 20th June at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below are the Title and Abstract for Xinya’s talk – Please do come along if you are able. Title: Invisible Health Clues in Everyday Handwriting Abstract: Everyday handwriting may quietly reflect subtle changes in a person’s health. This project explores PGR Seminar: Xinya Gong

Research Software Group Seminar: talk by Volodymyr Kharchenko

3pm Thursday 19th June JC 1.33A Please join us for a talk at Research Software Group seminar by our guest Dr Volodymyr Kharchenko from the Department of Economic Cybernetics at the Faculty of Information Technologies, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (https://nubip.edu.ua/en). Talk title: Current research and collaboration opportunities with the Faculty Research Software Group Seminar: talk by Volodymyr Kharchenko

CS Grant Writing Away Day

Staff and PGR students from the School enjoyed a grant-writing “away day” on Thursday 12th June. There were useful discussions on structure of UKRI grants, applications and assessment of grants. Lunch, cakes and refreshments were enjoyed by all!

PGR Seminar – Kyren Fox + Zipei Li

The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 13th June at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below are the Titles and Abstracts for Kyren and Zipei’s talks – Please do come along if you are able. Kyren Fox Title: Privacy and Trust on the Web Abstract: Many web users use content blockers to block ads PGR Seminar – Kyren Fox + Zipei Li