Graduation Reception June 2018

Congratulations to our Senior Honours Class of 2018, MSci Honours students and our PhD students Dr Adam Barwell, Dr Martin McCaffery, Dr Gonzalo Mendez and Dr Long Thai, who graduated last month. Students were invited to a reception in the School prior to the ceremony, to celebrate their achievement with staff, friends and family.

Our graduates will move on to a wide variety of interesting and challenging employment and further study opportunities, and we wish them all well with their future careers.

PhD viva success: Adeola Fabola

Congratulations to Adeola Fabola, who successfully defended his thesis today. He is pictured with supervisor Dr Alan Millar, Internal examiner Dr Colin Allison and external examiner Dr Elizabeth Falconer, from Bournemouth University.

PhD viva success: Daniel Rough

Congratulations to Daniel Rough, who successfully defended his thesis today. He is pictured with supervisor Professor Aaron Quigley, Internal examiner Dr Uta Hinrichs and external examiner Professor Alessio Malizia, from the University of Hertfordshire.

Images courtesy of Annemarie Paton

PhD viva success: Chris Schwaab

Congratulations to Chris Schwaab, who successfully defended his thesis yesterday. He is pictured with supervisor Dr Edwin Brady, Internal examiner Dr Juliana Bowles and external examiner Dr Bob Atkey, from the University of Strathclyde.

Images courtesy of Annemarie Paton and Edwin Brady

PhD viva success: Franck Slama

Congratulations to Franck Slama, who successfully defended his thesis yesterday. He is pictured with supervisor Dr Edwin Brady, Internal examiner Dr Susmit Sarkar and external examiner Professor Thorsten Altenkirch, from the University of Nottingham

Graduation Reception: Wednesday 27th June 2018

The School of Computer Science, will be hosting a graduation reception on Wednesday 27th June, in the Jack Cole building, between 10.30 and 12.30. Graduating students and guests are invited to the School to celebrate with a glass of fizz. Computer Science degrees will be conferred in an afternoon ceremony in the Younger Hall. A class photo will be taken at 11am in the Jack Cole building. Family and friends who can’t make it on the day can watch a live broadcast of graduation.

Graduation receptions have been held in the school from 2010 and some class photos have been captured for posterity.

Class photo 2010

Class photo 2011

Class photo 2014

Class Photo 2015

Class photo 2016

Class photo 2017

PhD viva success: Percy Perez

Congratulations to Percy Perez, who successfully defended his thesis yesterday. He is pictured with supervisor Dr Alex Voss, Internal examiner, Dr Marwan Fayed and external examiner Dr Gareth Tyson, from Queen Mary University of London.

Image courtesy of Ryo Yanagida

PhD viva success: Gonzalo Mendez

Congratulations to Gonzalo Mendez, who successfully defended his thesis today. He is pictured with supervisor Dr Miguel Nacenta, Internal examiner, Dr Tristan Henderson and external examiner Associate Professor Samuel Huron, from Télécom ParisTech.

Image courtesy of Annemarie Paton.

PhD viva success: Matus Tejiscak

Congratulations to Matus Tejiscak, who successfully defended his thesis yesterday. He is pictured with supervisor Dr Edwin Brady, Internal examiner Dr Chris Jefferson and external examiner Dr Andreas Abel, from the University of Gothenburg.

Interdisciplinary PhD studentship available with Management

Dr Tristan Henderson has a St Leonards interdisciplinary PhD studentship available, to be co-supervised by Professor Kirstie Ball of the School of Management. The area of study is to do with ethical values and data science. The student will be part of CRISP (Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance & Privacy), a collaborative research centre involving St Andrews, Edinburgh and Stirling. As an interdisciplinary project, we welcome and will consider applications from students with a wide variety of backgrounds, from computer science to management to technology law and anything in between. More details can be found on the CRISP website.

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