Colleagues gathered recently to wish a happy retirement to Professor Al Dearle at the end of August. Having received both a BSc and a PhD from St Andrews, Al has spent most of his career here, interrupted by sojourns in Adelaide and Stirling. His research has cut across several themes, beginning with persistent programming (still … Retirement of Professor Alan Dearle
Congratulations to Yaxiong Lei (supervised by Dr Juan Ye) who has passed his PhD viva subject to minor corrections. Thanks to Yu Guan (University of Warwick) for serving as the external examiner.
Massive congratulations to Halite Abudureyimu who has passed his PhD with only minor corrections. Very well done indeed! Thanks to the two external examiners Mauro Dragone and Gerado Aragon Camarasa. Halite was supervised by Kasim Terzić.
Throughout July, the research group Open Virtual Worlds from the School of Computer Science was involved in digitalising the archaeological artefacts, historical sites, and natural landscapes in collaboration with their important partner, Timespan Museum in Helmsdale, Highlands. Two PhD students, Junyu Zhang and Sharon Pisani, who are researching digital heritage and sustainability, were using 360 … Research Activities by Open Virtual Worlds Research Group
Congratulations to Dr Di Wu for an outstanding achievement of third place in the inaugural IEEE IoT PhD thesis competition. Di’s thesis, “Distributed Machine Learning on Edge Computing Systems” truly stood out among the impressive nominations. The judging panel, comprising leading experts in the field, meticulously evaluated each submission based on the following criteria: Problem … Award Congratulations to Dr Di Wu – IEEE IoT PhD Thesis Competition
11.30am – 12.00pm followed by “Ask Me Anything” in Jack Cole Coffee Area 12.00pm-1.00pm 3rd September 2025 JC 1.33A/B Join us for Innovation Insights, an interactive session designed to showcase how the University of St Andrews Entrepreneurship Centre supports staff and students to turn ideas into real-world innovation and impact. The session will introduce the … Talk from St Andrews Entrepreneurship – Innovation Insights
Tai Nguyen, supervised by Dr. Nguyen Dang (University of St Andrews) and Dr. Carola Doerr (CNRS Researcher, Sorbonne Université, France), has been awarded the prestigious Best Paper Award at GECCO 2025, held in Málaga, Spain, from July 14–18, 2025. GECCO (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference) is the leading international conference in its field, known for … PhD Student Tai Nguyen Wins Best Paper Award at GECCO 2025
Congratulations to our Senior Honours student, Verity Powell, who is nominated for the Young Software Engineering of the Year Awards 2025. She is invited to attend the awards dinner, taking place at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on Thursday 25th September. Verity is a Computer Science graduate, and played for the University’s Women’s 1XV Rugby … Nomination to Young Software Engineering of the Year Awards 2025
The University is hosting the 23rd International Conference on Permutation Patterns https://sites.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/pp25/ It is a series of annual conferences on permutation patterns that have been held annually since 2003. Last time the conference was held in St Andrews was in 2007. This year the conference is organised by Ruth Hoffmann (CS, St Andrews) and Christian … Permutation Patterns 2025
On behalf of the School of Computer Science, we would like to congratulate all of this year’s graduating students. The school welcomed graduates, their families and friends and academic staff to reflect on and celebrate their student journey at St Andrews. Drinks and cakes were enjoyed. 🍰🥂 The school wishes all our graduates the … Graduation Reception – Thursday 3rd July 2025 🎓