Research

The St Andrews Global Research Centre for Changing Climates Science, Society, Solutions

The next 600 years of St Andrews history will be set against a radically altered climate. The St Andrews Centre for Changing Climates, initiated this September, will leverage insights from climate change past and present, spanning science and society, to better understand the diverse array of challenges posed by a changing climate, and the solutions required to … The St Andrews Global Research Centre for Changing Climates Science, Society, Solutions

St Andrews Computer Science makes big splash at Digital Heritage 2025

Sharon Pisani, Maria Andrei, Junyu Zhang and Alan Miller travelled to Siene for Digital Heritage 2025. Four paper presentations, project workshops and much networking later we reflect on a successful conference. We are proud to announce that Sharon Pisani from Open Virtual Worlds has received the Best Paper Award for her wonderful work “Introducing Sociodata … St Andrews Computer Science makes big splash at Digital Heritage 2025

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.

PhD Viva Success: Halite Abudureyimu

Massive congratulations to Halite Abudureyimu who has passed his PhD with only minor corrections. Very well done indeed! Thanks to the two external examiners Mauro Dragone and Gerado Aragon Camarasa. Halite was supervised by Kasim Terzić.

Research Activities by Open Virtual Worlds Research Group

Throughout July, the research group Open Virtual Worlds from the School of Computer Science was involved in digitalising the archaeological artefacts, historical sites, and natural landscapes in collaboration with their important partner, Timespan Museum in Helmsdale, Highlands. Two PhD students, Junyu Zhang and Sharon Pisani, who are researching digital heritage and sustainability, were using 360 … Research Activities by Open Virtual Worlds Research Group

Award Congratulations to Dr Di Wu – IEEE IoT PhD Thesis Competition

Congratulations to Dr Di Wu for an outstanding achievement of third place in the inaugural IEEE  IoT PhD thesis competition. Di’s thesis, “Distributed Machine Learning on Edge Computing Systems” truly stood out among the impressive nominations. The judging panel, comprising leading experts in the field, meticulously evaluated each submission based on the following criteria: Problem … Award Congratulations to Dr Di Wu – IEEE IoT PhD Thesis Competition

PGR Seminar: Xinya Gong

The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 20th June at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below are the Title and Abstract for Xinya’s talk – Please do come along if you are able. Title: Invisible Health Clues in Everyday Handwriting Abstract: Everyday handwriting may quietly reflect subtle changes in a person’s health. This project explores … PGR Seminar: Xinya Gong

Research Software Group Seminar: talk by Volodymyr Kharchenko

3pm Thursday 19th June JC 1.33A Please join us for a talk at Research Software Group seminar by our guest Dr Volodymyr Kharchenko from the Department of Economic Cybernetics at the Faculty of Information Technologies, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (https://nubip.edu.ua/en). Talk title: Current research and collaboration opportunities with the Faculty … Research Software Group Seminar: talk by Volodymyr Kharchenko

CS Grant Writing Away Day

Staff and PGR students from the School enjoyed a grant-writing “away day” on Thursday 12th June. There were useful discussions on structure of UKRI grants, applications and assessment of grants. Lunch, cakes and refreshments were enjoyed by all!

PGR Seminar – Kyren Fox + Zipei Li

The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 13th June at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below are the Titles and Abstracts for Kyren and Zipei’s talks – Please do come along if you are able. Kyren Fox Title: Privacy and Trust on the Web Abstract: Many web users use content blockers to block ads … PGR Seminar – Kyren Fox + Zipei Li