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Graduation Reception

The School of Computer Science will host a graduation reception at Beacons Bar in the students Union on Wednesday 15th June between 10:00 – 13.00. Graduating students and their guests are invited to come along and celebrate with a glass of bubbly. Computer Science degrees will be conferred in an afternoon ceremony in the Younger Graduation Reception

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

Systems Research Group seminars

The Systems Research Group is re-starting their seminars series from 6th May 2022. Seminars will take place every two weeks at 1pm, on Fridays. From May to July the seminars will be online (SRG Teams), while from September onward we aim to move them to a hybrid format. More information on the schedule can be Systems Research Group seminars

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