Research

Awarding Excellence: Smart & Sustainable IT for IEEE 2025 World Forum on Internet of Things: Dr Di Wu

From St Andrews to Chengdu, Dr. Di Wu has been awarded third place in the 2025 IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things PhD Thesis Competition.  IEEE is an internationally recognised organisation within electrical and electronics engineering. By participating in such an event, participants can receive valuable external feedback and connect with a larger community … Awarding Excellence: Smart & Sustainable IT for IEEE 2025 World Forum on Internet of Things: Dr Di Wu

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! 🎓

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

Young Software Engineer of the Year 2025 Awards

Huge congratulations to Verity Powel, a winner at last night’s Young Software Engineer of the Year Awards (https://www.scotlandis.com/blog/rugby-video-tech-scores-top-award-for-st-andrews-student/). Her final year project “Video Analytics For Rugby Skills Training” was nominated by the school (https://blogs.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/csblog/2025/07/28/nomination-to-young-software-engineering-of-the-year-awards-2025/) in June. The awards were announced at the ScotSoft 2025 (https://www.scotlandis.com/scotsoft-2025/), Scotland’s leading tech conference at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. … Young Software Engineer of the Year 2025 Awards

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