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MSc student participates in CERN School of Computing and the ACM Europe Summer School

MSc student Saad Memon participated in the CERN School of Computing 2019 and the ACM Europe Summer School 2019 in HPC Architectures for AI and Dedicated Applications. CERN School of Computing (CSC 2019) involved a series of lectures and practical exercises over a two-week period. The Summer School is open to postgraduate students and research MSc student participates in CERN School of Computing and the ACM Europe Summer School

PhD viva success: Ilia Lvov

Congratulations to Ilia Lvov, who successfully defended his thesis today. He is pictured with (from left to right): supervisor Dr Alex Voss, internal examiner Prof Tom Kelsey and Prof David De Roure from Oxford University.

Professor Aaron Quigley new SICSA Director

Congratulations to Professor Aaron Quigley who has been appointed as the new Director of SICSA. Aaron, the Chair of Human Computer Interaction co-founded SACHI, the St Andrews Computer Human Interaction research group and served as its director from 2011-2018. In his volunteer roles he is the ACM SIGCHI Vice President for Conferences (on the ACM Professor Aaron Quigley new SICSA Director

Graduation Reception: Wednesday 26th June

The School of Computer Science will host a graduation reception on Wednesday 26th June, in the Jack Cole building, between 11.00 and 13.00. Graduating students and their guests are invited to the School to celebrate with a glass of bubbly and a cream cake. Computer Science degrees will be conferred in an afternoon ceremony in Graduation Reception: Wednesday 26th June

Alex Bain completes 2019 London Marathon

Congratulations to School Manager Alex Bain, who completed the London Marathon for the fourth time on Sunday, raising funds for Guide Dogs. Alex, runner no 33950 is pictured below with his finisher’s medal. Donations to recognise his achievement and the training involved, can be made via his Justgiving page. A charity bake sale in the Alex Bain completes 2019 London Marathon

Juho Rousu: Predicting Drug Interactions with Kernel Methods

Title: Predicting Drug Interactions with Kernel Methods Abstract: Many real world prediction problems can be formulated as pairwise learning problems, in which one is interested in making predictions for pairs of objects, e.g. drugs and their targets. Kernel-based approaches have emerged as powerful tools for solving problems of that kind, and especially multiple kernel learning Juho Rousu: Predicting Drug Interactions with Kernel Methods

PhD viva success: Juan Jose Mendoza Santana

Congratulations to Juan Jose Mendoza Santana, who successfully defended his thesis last week. He is pictured with Internal examiner Dr Edwin Brady, supervisor Dr Julianna Bowles and external examiner Dr Stephen Brown, from Maynooth University.

PhD viva success: Evan Brown

Congratulations to Evan Brown, who successfully defended his thesis today. He is pictured with Internal examiner Dr Tristan Henderson and external examiner Professor Chris Marsden, Professor of Internet Law at the University of Sussex. Evan’s PhD research on using corpus linguistics to build collaborative legal research tools was supervised by Professor Aaron Quigley.

Best paper finalist award for Xingzhi Yue and Neofytos Dimitriou

A paper describing the work of our MSc student Xingzhi Yue and PhD student Neofytos Dimitriou, supervised by Oggie Arandjelovic and in collaboration with the School of Medicine, gets the best paper finalist award at the latest International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICOB 2019). The key contribution of the work is a novel Best paper finalist award for Xingzhi Yue and Neofytos Dimitriou