Research

SACHI Seminar, Stavroula Pipyrou – Radical Imagination: Knowledge Through Generations

We are pleased to share our upcoming SACHI seminar this week by Dr Stavroula Pipyrou, a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews and Founding Director of the Centre for Minorities Research. 📅 Wednesday 2nd April  | 🕛 13:00 – 14:00 PM | 📍 JCB, Room 1.33A Title: Radical Imagination: Knowledge SACHI Seminar, Stavroula Pipyrou – Radical Imagination: Knowledge Through Generations

SACHI Seminar, Mark Zarb – Bridging Minds and Machines: Redefining Computing Education

We are pleased to share our upcoming SACHI seminar by Dr Mark Zarb, an Associate Professor based within the School of Computing, Engineering and Technology at RGU: 📅 26th March | 🕛 13:00 – 14:00 PM | 📍 JCB, Room 1.33A Title: Bridging Minds and Machines: Redefining Computing Education Abstract: Since 2009, Dr Zarb has been exploring the SACHI Seminar, Mark Zarb – Bridging Minds and Machines: Redefining Computing Education

SACHI Seminar with Aluna Everitt – Democratising the Design and Development of Emerging Technologies

We are pleased to share our upcoming SACHI research seminar by Dr Aluna Everitt, a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand: 📅 Today | 🕛 12:00 – 1:00 PM | 📍 JCB, Room 1.33B Title: Democratising the Design and Development of Emerging Technologies Abstract: SACHI Seminar with Aluna Everitt – Democratising the Design and Development of Emerging Technologies

PGR Seminar with Carla Davesa Sureda

The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 22nd November at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below is a Title and Abstract for Carla’s talk – Please do come along if you are able. Title: Towards High-Level Modelling in Automated Planning Abstract: Planning is a fundamental activity, arising frequently in many contexts, from daily tasks PGR Seminar with Carla Davesa Sureda

Fully funded PhD scholarship in Algorithms for Data Science

Lead supervisor: Dr Peter Macgregor Application deadline: 1 March 2025 Project description: Modern data science and machine learning applications involve datasets with millions of data points and hundreds of dimensions. For example, deep learning pipelines produce massive vector datasets representing text, image, audio and other data types. The analysis of such datasets with classical algorithms Fully funded PhD scholarship in Algorithms for Data Science

PhD Viva Success: Yingxue Fu

On behalf of the school, we would like to congratulate Yingxue Fu supervised by Mark-Jan Nederhoff, who has passed their PhD viva with minor corrections. Thanks to Dr Alice Tonilo who was internal examiner and Professor Amir Zeldes from Georgetown University as external examiner. Many congratulations to Yingxue!

Board Game Afternoon

Students and staff from the School of Computer Science – please join us for a board game afternoon on Friday 13th September 3.00pm-5.30pm in the Jack Cole Lab. Welcome a-board – come along and roll the dice! 😉🎲

GAP Days Summer 2024 @ St Andrews

The School of Computer Science hosted this years Summer GAP Days between 26th August and 30th August. GAP Days are workshops where developers and users with programming experience are invited to influence the future development of [GAP] by initiating and contributing to discussions and coding sprints. These GAP Days have been special as we celebrated 10 GAP Days Summer 2024 @ St Andrews