Postgraduate

EngD Viva Success: Patrick Schrempf

Please join me in congratulating Patrick Schrempf, supervised by David Harris-Birtill, who has just passed his EngD viva subject to minor corrections. Thanks to Mark-Jan for serving as Internal examiner and Honghan Wu (UCL and University of Edinburgh) for serving as the external examiner

Welcome Events

We were pleased to host a number of in person welcome events for our students for the first time in 2 years. Thank you to everyone who came along and to those who helped out!

PhD Viva Success: Chawanangwa Lupafya

Please join me in congratulating Chawanangwa Lupafya, who has just passed his PhD viva subject to minor corrections. Chawanangwa is supervised by Dr Dharini Balasubramaniam. Special thanks to Dr Ruth Hoffman for serving as internal examiner and  Dr Rami Bahsoon from the University of Birmingham for serving as the external examiner  

PhD Viva Success: Yasir Alguwaifli

Please join me in congratulating Yasir Alguwaifli, who has just passed his PhD viva subject to minor corrections. Yasir, who is supervised by Christopher Brown, has provided his thesis abstract below. Thanks to Özgür Akgün for serving as internal examiner and Prof Christoph Kessler from Linköping University for serving as the external examiner. Controlling energy PhD Viva Success: Yasir Alguwaifli

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.

PhD Scholarships in Computer Science for 2022

Scholarship Description The School of Computer Science is offering the following types of scholarships for 3.5 years of study in our PhD programme. All UK/EU and International students are eligible: • Fully funded scholarships consisting of tuition + stipend • Tuition-only scholarships This award is part-funded through the University’s new ‘handsels’ scheme. Value of Award PhD Scholarships in Computer Science for 2022

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

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.