Winter Graduation 2025
On behalf of the School of Computer Science, we would like to congratulate all of our graduating students. We wish you all the very best of luck! 🎓
Postgraduate
PhD studentships available for 2026 entry
The School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews is offering a number of PhD scholarships for 3.5 years of study in our doctoral research programme for entry in 2026/7. UK, EU and International students are all eligible for fully-funded scholarships consisting of tuition and a stipend. These awards are part-funded through the … PhD studentships available for 2026 entry
PGR Seminar: Ben Claydon and Joseph Loughney
You are warmly invited to the next PGR Seminar. Monday 17/11/2025 14:00-15:00 JC 1.33A Speaker: Ben Claydon Title: Improvements to Space Partitioning Trees for Similarity Search Abstract: Searching large, unstructured collections of data for objects deemed of relevance to a user-provided query is an increasingly important task. For example, when a user inputs a query … PGR Seminar: Ben Claydon and Joseph Loughney
PGR Seminar: Charis Hanna and Maria Andrei
You are warmly invited to the next PGR Seminar. Date & Time: Monday 10/11/2025 14:00-15:00 Location: JC 1.33A Speaker: Charis Hanna Title: Self-Supervised Learning for Efficient Ecological Monitoring Abstract: Cliff-nesting birds serve as valuable indicators of marine ecosystem health, yet dense populations and remote habitats present significant challenges for automated monitoring. With current state-of-the-art object … PGR Seminar: Charis Hanna and Maria Andrei
PGR Seminar – Erdem Kus & Junyu Zhang
You are warmly invited to the next PGR Seminar. Date & Time: Monday 20/10/2025 14:00-15:00 Location: JC 1.33A Speaker: Erdem Kus Title: Frugal Algorithm Selection for Combinatorial Search Abstract: Solvers for combinatorial search and optimisation problems often exhibit highly complementary performance: instances that are hard for one solver may be easy for another. The Algorithm Selection … PGR Seminar – Erdem Kus & Junyu Zhang
PhD Viva Success: Zihan Zhang
Congratulations to Zihan Zhang (supervised by Dr Blesson Varghese) who has passed his PhD viva subject to minor corrections. Thanks to Dr Poonam Yadav (University of York) for serving as the external examiner.
PGR Seminar – Qurat ul ain Shaheen
You are warmly invited to the next PRG Seminar. Date & Time: Monday 13/10/2025 14:00-14:40 Location: JC 1.33A Speaker: Qurat ul ain Shaheen Title: A Framework for Uncertainty Sampling in Active Learning Abstract: Uncertainty sampling is an active learning paradigm where data instances representing maximum uncertainty for a machine learning model are selected for training. This … PGR Seminar – Qurat ul ain Shaheen
PGR Seminar – David Morrison
You are warmly invited to the next PRG Seminar. Date & Time: Monday 06/10/2025 14:00-14:40 Location: JC 1.33A Speaker: David Morrison Title: Synthetic Whole Slide Image Patch Embeddings for Multiple Instance Learning Abstract: Obtaining high-quality data is a persistent challenge for the training of computational pathology models. As medical data, Whole-slide images (WSIs) are often held … PGR Seminar – David Morrison
PGR Seminar – Sharon Pisani & Mirza Hossain
The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 3rd October 11:00-12:00 in JC 1.33A. Below are the Titles and Abstracts for Sharon and Mirza’s talks – Please do come along if you are able. Sharon Pisani Title: Building Sustainable Heritage Virtual Museums for Communities using Sociodata Abstract: Virtual museums are moving beyond simple digitisation … PGR Seminar – Sharon Pisani & Mirza Hossain
PhD Viva Success: Yaxiong Lei
Congratulations to Yaxiong Lei (supervised by Dr Juan Ye) who has passed his PhD viva subject to minor corrections. Thanks to Yu Guan (University of Warwick) for serving as the external examiner.