PhD

PhD Viva Success: Nnamdi Ekwe-Ekwe

Congratulations to Nnamdi Ekwe-Ekwe, who has passed his PhD examination with minor corrections. Special thanks to the external examiner, Peter Garraghan (Lancaster) and also to Nnamdi’s supervisors Adam Barker and Kasim Terzic.

PhD success for a former graduate

Simon and Indushree, PhD graduation 2022

Last month Professor Simon Dobson was invited to be on the PhD examining committee for Indushree Banerjee at TU Delft. She passed with flying colours, for her thesis on ad hoc network protocols for use in disaster recovery situations. The protocol is designed around a very strong model of social justice and equality, working on PhD success for a former graduate

PhD opportunity: Interdisciplinary approaches for improving biodiversity assessments using remote sensors

Funded PhD opportunity. The project will be heavy on state of the art machine learning with applications to statistical ecology. The project will be jointly supervised by the Schools of Maths and Stats (Alison Johnston, Chris Sutherland) and Computer Science (Kasim and Oggie) and potentially fully funded by CREEM. Strong applicants with experience with deep PhD opportunity: Interdisciplinary approaches for improving biodiversity assessments using remote sensors

PhD Viva Success: Catherine Cassidy

Please join me in congratulating Catherine Cassidy, supervised by Alan Miller, and mentored by Alice Toniolo, who has just passed her PhD viva subject to minor corrections. Thanks to Jonathon Richter (President of Immersive Learning Research Network) for serving as the external examiner.

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

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.