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.

November Graduation

The School of Computer Science will host a small graduation reception in the JC coffee area on Tuesday 29th November between 14:00-16:00. 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 Hall. Family and November Graduation

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

Welcome Events

We were pleased to host a number of in person welcome events for our students for the first time in 2 years. Thank you to everyone who came along and to those who helped out!

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