Please join me in congratulating Chawanangwa Lupafya, who has just passed his PhD viva subject to minor corrections. Chawanangwa is supervised by Dr Dharini Balasubramaniam. Special thanks to Dr Ruth Hoffman for serving as internal examiner and Dr Rami Bahsoon from the University of Birmingham for serving as the external examiner
Please join me in congratulating Yasir Alguwaifli, who has just passed his PhD viva subject to minor corrections. Yasir, who is supervised by Christopher Brown, has provided his thesis abstract below. Thanks to Özgür Akgün for serving as internal examiner and Prof Christoph Kessler from Linköping University for serving as the external examiner. Controlling energy … PhD Viva Success: Yasir Alguwaifli
Director of Research Juliana Bowles hosted a “Coming-back-to-school-for-research day” on 13 June, providing an opportunity for research staff and students to talk about current projects and future collaborations.
We’re delighted that the world-leading quality of our research has been recognised in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework. Congratulations to all members of our School! More Information on CS Ref results can be found on our Research page
We are looking to speak to further education students of all disciplines. We want to understand what students want to know about personal cyber security and how they want to learn it. To participate, you must be 16 or over and based at college, not at school, and willing to take part in an interview … Research participants from further education wanted
The work on deep learning based understanding of ancient coins by Jessica Cooper, who is a Research Assistant and a part-time PhD student supervised by Oggie Arandjelovic and David Harrison has been chosen as a featured, “title story” article by the Journal Sci where it was published in a Special Issue Machine Learning and Vision … Learning to Describe: A New Approach to Computer Vision Based Ancient Coin Analysis
Congratulations to Dr Nguyen Dang, who has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship. The 3 year Fellowships are intended to assist those at an early stage of their academic careers to undertake a significant piece of publishable work. Nguyen will be researching Constraint-based automated generation of synthetic benchmark instances. Abstract summary: “Combinatorial problems … Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for Nguyen Dang
Research carried out by Charlie Blake and Ian Gent to compute the approximate odds of winning any version of solitaire features in Major Nelson’s Video Podcast [Interview with Ian and Charlie starts 23:56] for XBox news today. Today is National Solitaire Day and the 30th anniversary of the game. The celebrations include an invitation to … Winnability of Klondike Solitaire research features in Major Nelson’s video podcast
Congratulations to Head of School Simon Dobson who has been elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his exceptional achievements in science. This prestigious award recognises expertise which supports the “advancement of learning and knowledge in Scottish public life”. The RSE established in 1783, plays a leading role in “the development of a modern … Professor Simon Dobson elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)
This Week Dr Juliana Bowles brought together nine leading academic and industry partners for the 4th Consortium meeting for the Serums project. The project aims to produce tools and technologies to support future-generation healthcare systems that will integrate home-based healthcare into a holistic treatment plan, reducing cost and travel-associated risks and increasing quality of healthcare … The Serums Project Consortium meeting