Congratulations to our recent graduate Sam Elliott, who has won the Lockheed Martin Award for Best Engineered Project at the Young Software Engineer awards. The Young Software Engineer of the Year Awards are given for the best undergraduate software projects drawn from across all students studying computer science and software engineering in Scotland. Sam’s project, … Lockheed Martin Award
Congratulations to Adam Barker who has been awarded a prestigious Visiting Researcher position at Google through the Google Visiting Faculty Program. “The Google Visiting Faculty program aims to identify and support world-class, full-time faculty pursuing research in areas of mutual interest. Each year, through the Google Visiting Faculty Program, over 25 academics visit Google from … Adam Barker – Google Visiting Faculty
We’re delighted to welcome Dr Ognjen (Oggie) Arandjelović to the School as a new lecturer.
Congratulations to our recent graduate Aleksejs Sazonovs, who’s won a Highly Commended place at this year’s Undergraduate Awards. The Undergraduate Awards are an international and cross-disciplinary prize that aims to recognise highly creative individuals at undergraduate level. Typically this is demonstrated through excellent project work, and Aleks’ project on “A metapopulation model for predicting the … A highly commended project
Dean of Science, Professor Al Dearle officially opened the new Interaction Lab earlier today. The lab is situated within the John Honey building within the School of Computer Science and houses the research talents of both SACHI and Open Virtual Worlds. The Dean of Science, Professor Aaron Quigley Chair of HCI, current staff and students, … Official Opening: Interaction Lab
The School participated in the Great Scottish Swim on Saturday, the CS team comprising Percy Perez, David Symons, Julie Dunsire, Alex Voss and Ruth Letham were swimming for Médecins Sans Frontières. All team members completed the swim in under an hour. Before and after pictures were captured by Katja who travelled along to support the … Great Scottish Swim Success for CS team
Congratulations to Chonlatee Khorakhun, who successfully defended her thesis today. She is pictured below with supervisor Professor Saleem Bhatti, Internal examiner Dr Juliana Bowles and External examiner Dr Cathryn Peoples from University of Ulster.
In September 2014 a diverse group of students commenced their studies on our MSc portfolio. Some are pictured below at our annual welcome reception. Fast forward to August 2015 and after a year of hard work, and an intensive summer dissertation project, they submitted their dissertation. Today they presented their posters and demonstrated project artefacts. … MSc Poster and Demo Session 2015
The results of the 2015 National Student Survey (NSS) were released this week and 100% of our students reported themselves “satisfied” with 93% responding that they were “very satisfied” with their course. The School was also rated highly in a number of other categories including “Staff are good at explaining things”, “Feedback on my work … NSS 2015: Computer Science Students 100% Satisfied
The IVF-predict application has been designed based on years of academic research carried out by top medical and academic laureates. Using data from more than 144,000 IVF cycles a mathematical model has been developed that allows couples to have the most accurate prediction of their chance of a live birth with IVF. In conjunction with … IVF-predict: Predicting Personalised IVF Success