School of Computer Science

PhD Viva Success: Yasir Alguwaifli

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

CS Research Day 2022

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.

CS Staff Away Day 2022

Thank you to everyone who attended the staff away day at the Rufflets it was lovely to see everyone in person  

Seminar Talk from a SICSA visitor (Daniel Garijo) Friday 10 June, 11.00am

Accelerating Research Software Understandability Through Knowledge Capture Daniel Garijo Summary: Research Software is key to understand, reproduce and reuse existing work in many disciplines, ranging from Geosciences to Astronomy or Artificial Intelligence. However, research software is usually difficult to find, reuse, compare and understand due to its disconnected documentation (dispersed in manuals, readme files, web Seminar Talk from a SICSA visitor (Daniel Garijo) Friday 10 June, 11.00am

Graduation Reception

The School of Computer Science will host a graduation reception at Beacons Bar in the students Union on Wednesday 15th June between 10:00 – 13.00. Graduating students and their guests are invited to come along and celebrate with a glass of bubbly. Computer Science degrees will be conferred in an afternoon ceremony in the Younger Graduation Reception

PhD viva success: Gökberk Koçak

Please join me in congratulating Gökberk Koçak, who has just passed his PhD viva subject to minor corrections. Gökberk is supervised by Özgür Akgün and Ian Miguel Thanks to Susmit Sarkar for serving as internal examiner and David Bergman (UConn) for serving as the external examiner.

PhD viva success: Janis Wong

Congratulations to Janis Wong, supervised by Tristan Henderson (CS) and Kirstie Ball (Management), who has passed her PhD viva subject to minor corrections. Thanks to Alison Powell (LSE) for serving as the external examiner.

REF Results

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

Congratulations David Letham!

Congratulations to David Letham who has been invited to the Gives Back Awards 2022, on behalf of University of St Andrews Charities Campaign. David is one of the first winners of the making a difference Award. This new Award comes from students and staff who would like to nominate members of staff who have gone Congratulations David Letham!