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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

We are top in the UK for Computer Science

The University of St Andrews makes history by ranking top in the United Kingdom in the @thetimes. The University tops seven of the subject league tables: Business Management, Computer Science, English, Middle Eastern and African Studies, Philosophy, Physics and Astronomy, and International Relations. #GoodUniGuide http://ow.ly/GUyi50GbB08 #evertoexcel

ACL 2021 Test of Time Award

Dr. Jean Carletta has been awarded the 2021 Association for Computational Linguistics 25-year Test-of-Time paper award for Assessing Agreement on Classification Tasks: The Kappa Statistic, Computational Linguistics 22 (1), 1996. In this paper she intervened to correct a common but misleading statistical practice. As a result, her field began to require assessments of how variability … ACL 2021 Test of Time Award

Alex Bain completes 2020 London Marathon

Congratulations to School Manager Alex Bain, who completed the Virtual London Marathon on Sunday 4th October. Alex runner number 7584 has completed five London Marathons (5 years in a row). Alex, t-shirts and medals are pictured below.

Learning to Describe: A New Approach to Computer Vision Based Ancient Coin Analysis

The work on deep learning based understanding of ancient coins by Jessica Cooper, who is a Research Assistant and a part-time PhD student supervised by Oggie Arandjelovic and David Harrison has been chosen as a featured, “title story” article by the Journal Sci where it was published in a Special Issue Machine Learning and Vision … Learning to Describe: A New Approach to Computer Vision Based Ancient Coin Analysis

Zoë Nengite awarded Principal’s Medal

Congratulations to Zoë Nengite who has been awarded The Principal’s Medal in recognition of outstanding academic achievement and exceptional activities within the University and the wider St Andrews community. The Medal is awarded to students who have both excellent academic accomplishments and those who have inspired and supported their peers and who have often undertaken … Zoë Nengite awarded Principal’s Medal

PhD viva success: Hui-Shyong Yeo

Congratulations to Hui-Shyong Yeoi, who successfully defended his thesis last month. The virtual viva was convened by Dr Uta Hinrichs with external examiner Professor Stephen Brewster from The University of Glasgow.

PhD viva success: Fearn Bishop

Congratulations to Fearn Bishop, who succesfuly defended her thesis last month. The virtual viva was convened by Dr Alice Toniolo with external examiner Dr Petra Isenberg from from the AVIZ group INRIA, Saclay Île-de-France.