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.
Best Wishes from the school of Computer Science
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
Last month Professor Simon Dobson was invited to be on the PhD examining committee for Indushree Banerjee at TU Delft.
She passed with flying colours, for her thesis on ad hoc network protocols for use in disaster recovery situations. The protocol is designed around a very strong model of social justice and equality, working on low-power mobile devices and operating so as to conserve power reserves and device lifetime over the important 48-hour initial period of disaster relief.
Indushree did her MSc in St Andrews ten years ago, which gives us the opportunity for a couple of before-and-after photographs.
Neither of them seem to have changed all that much, apart from Simon having gone “Full Gandalf” during lockdown.
Indushree is now doing a postdoc in Delft, focusing on technology applied to wildlife conservation and ecology. We’re hoping to get her over for a seminar in the new year.
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 learning and strong maths background are particularly welcome to apply.
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.
If you are currently teaching or interested in teaching anything to do with ethics and technology, then please consider attending a half-day workshop that Dharini Balasubramaniam and Tristan Henderson are holding in JC 1.33 on Tuesday 6 Dec.
The aim is to discuss challenges, share syllabi and best practices, and ideally to build a shared repository of teaching resources.
This event is kindly sponsored by the SICSA Education theme.
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 friends who can’t make it on the day can watch a live broadcast of graduation.
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 University of St Andrews, will act as a coordinating centre for an international effort bringing together diverse expertise across both the sciences and the humanities for setting out impact assessments, protocols, procedures, and treaties designed to enable a responsible response should we discover intelligent life forms beyond our planet.
More information about the hub can be found in the university press release
