School of Computer Science

Virtual Open Worlds appear in The Herald

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 Rosa!

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.

Winter Graduation

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

PhD opportunity: Interdisciplinary approaches for improving biodiversity assessments using remote sensors

Funded PhD opportunity. The project will be heavy on state of the art machine learning with applications to statistical ecology. The project will be jointly supervised by the Schools of Maths and Stats (Alison Johnston, Chris Sutherland) and Computer Science (Kasim and Oggie) and potentially fully funded by CREEM. Strong applicants with experience with deep PhD opportunity: Interdisciplinary approaches for improving biodiversity assessments using remote sensors

PhD Viva Success: Catherine Cassidy

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.

EngD Viva Success: Patrick Schrempf

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

Clouded | Uncovering The Culture Of Cloud

Congratulations to Blesson Varghese who features in a newly released documentary in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and VMWare. An original film that is uncovering the realities of cloud technology and its effects on both business and society. Many have grown confused with our relationship with a rapidly expanding cloud market, others are reflecting on Clouded | Uncovering The Culture Of Cloud

Research Away Day October 2022

Thanks to everyone who attended the school Research away day. The day was very informative and lots of ideas were created. It was lovely to meet our Ukrainian Visiting Academics Maryna Novozhylova and Olga Chub. We would also like to thank our guests, Ricky Shek from careers, Kirsty Ross from RIS,  Adeel Shafi and Jayshree Research Away Day October 2022

PhD Viva Success: Chawanangwa Lupafya

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