On behalf of the school, we would like to invite our Graduating Students and your guests to our upcoming graduation reception. Please join us in celebrating your achievements and marking this significant milestone in your academic journey with a glass of bubbly and some cakes from Fisher and Donaldsons Date: Thursday, 3rd July Time: 10:30am … CS Graduation Reception
On June 25th, recent PhD graduate, Dr. Gregor Haywood, took to the stage to receive the 2025 “Best PhD Dissertation” award from the Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA). Haywood’s thesis on “Enhancing Privacy for Secure Internet Communications Using ILNP” focuses on how underlying communication protocols for the Internet could avoid privacy leaks, while … Enhancing Privacy for Internet Communication Protocols: SICSA 2025 Best PhD Dissertation Award
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
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
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!
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
The School held an informal social event for PGT students and staff on Monday 9th June in the Jack Cole coffee area to mark the dissertation period. Those attending enjoyed pizzas, snacks and drinks.
We’re thrilled to share some fantastic news and congratulate Saleem on being selected as one of the recipients of the ICANN Grant Program for his project: “Deployability of ILNP at Global Scale.” The announcement was officially made by ICANN on May 29, 2025, as part of their first-ever cohort of grant recipients. You can read the full announcement … Congratulations to Saleem!
The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 30th May at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below are the Titles and Abstracts for Lina and Victor’s talks – Please do come along if you are able. Lina Hadji-Kyriacou Title: Context-PEFT: Efficient Cross-Domain Transfer Learning Abstract: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) techniques such as LoRA, BitFit and IA3 … PGR Seminar – Lina Hadji-Kyriacou + Victor Yuan
On Thursday 22nd May the EDI committee hosted a talk on “Why Do We Need Diversity in Research Software Engineering?” by the Software Sustainability Institute Fellows Deborah Udoh (OLS) https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/deborah-udoh and Olexandr Konovalov (St Andrews) https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/olexandr-konovalov. On display we had a collection of posters designed by students to promote and raise awareness of EDI aspects, … EDI Talk: Why Do We Need Diversity in Research Software Engineering