Congratulations to Ai Jiang who passed her viva in Jan and has been awarded the PhD degree today after minor corrections! Thanks to Juan Ye as supervisor, the external Prof. Luke Chen from Ulster University and internal Dr. Areti Manataki.
Congratulations to Yunjia Wang who passed his PhD in February Supervised by Dr Ishbel Duncan. Thanks are due to Alan Miller as the internal, and to Karen Renaud from Strathclyde as the external. Yunjia was the last PhD student of Ishbel so we hope you can now enjoy your retirement!
Dr Alan Miller and Catherine Anne Cassidy of the Open Virtual Worlds research group have been successful in funding from the Impact Innovation Fund for their project “Evidencing and Amplifying Impact of Immersive Exhibits in Highlands and Islands Museums”. The project will evaluate the value of digital heritage engagement with virtual reality exhibitions and further … Open Virtual Worlds Impact Innovation Funding Success
We had our first School seminar of the semester today. The speaker was André G. Pereira visiting Scotland on a SICSA DVF Fellowship. André is working on AI Planning problems, an area that is closely related to the work of our own Constraint Programming research group. Title: Understanding Neuro-Symbolic Planning Abstract: In this seminar, we … SICSA DVF Seminar – Dr André G. Pereira
Alan Miller and The Virtual Open Worlds team appeared in The Herald earlier this month promoting their digital reconstruction of Fort William for the West Highland Museum Using VR headsets, the team created a fully immersive virtual reality model of the old fort in Fort William in the days leading up to the Battle of … Virtual Open Worlds appear in The Herald
Congratulations to Rosa Filgueira who has been awarded with the UK Young Academy (UKYA) membership The UK Young Academy’s first cohort brings together members from across academia, charity organisations and the private sector, to galvanise their skills, knowledge, and experience to find innovative solutions to the challenges facing societies now and in the future.
Congratulations to all our students who recently graduated, We wish you all the very best of luck! Congratulations also go to Chris Jefferson and Juliana Bowles in their professorships
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.
The new SETI Post-Detection Hub, coordinated by Dr John Elliott, an honorary research fellow of the School of Computer Science has gathered widespread press interest, across UK, Europe, USA, Canada, South America and South East Asia. The Hub hosted by the Centre of Exoplanet Science and the Centre for Global Law and Governance of the … Research hub considers response to life beyond Earth
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