Computer Science: June Graduation Reception 2016

Congratulations to our Senior Honours Class of 2016, and our PhD students Dr Jan de Muijnck-Hughes, Dr Christopher Davies, Dr Jakub Dostal, Dr Marc Werfs, Dr Ditchaphong Phoomikiattisak, Dr Bruce Simpson and Dr Ward Jaradat who graduated yesterday. Students were invited to a reception in the school to celebrate their achievement with staff, friends and family.

Saad Attieh, one of our talented SH students was awarded this year’s Principal’s Medal, which recognises exceptional endeavour and achievement during a student’s time at St Andrews. Read more about the medal and his journey in the University News.

Our graduates move on to a wide variety of interesting and challenging employment and further study opportunities, and we wish them all well with their future careers.

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International Summer Programme @ Computer Science

High school pupils from across the world are given a taste of what studying computer science at a Scottish university involves. Pupils attend lectures in the morning and take part in fun, hands-on activities in the afternoon. These sessions are part of the Science Summer Programme at St Andrews.

Event details

  • When: 25th July 2016 09:00 - 26th July 2016 16:30
  • Where: Various
  • Format: Summer School

International Summer Programme @ Computer Science

High school pupils from across the world are given a taste of what studying computer science at a Scottish university involves. Pupils attend lectures on Monday and Tuesday and take part in fun, hands-on activities on Thursday and Friday. These sessions are part of the Science Summer Programme at St Andrews.

Event details

  • When: 27th June 2016 14:00 - 1st July 2016 16:30
  • Where: Various
  • Format: Summer School

Sutton Trust Summer School @ Computer Science

The School of Computer Science runs daily sessions as part of the Sutton Trust summer school. The sessions are aimed at giving school pupils an insight into what it would be like to study computer science at university.

During the sessions, pupils take part in practical programming exercises and attend lectures similar to those they would receive studying with us.

Event details

  • When: 27th June 2016 09:00 - 1st July 2016 10:30
  • Where: Cole 0.35 - Jack Cole CS Student Lab
  • Format: Summer School

SACHI presence at CHI 2016

The SACHI group were well represented at CHI 2016 held in San Jose, California. The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction, and an exciting venue to discover, discuss and learn about the future of how people interact with technology.

SACHI presented five full papers, one note and a workshop paper, ran a successful workshop on Proxemic Mobile Collocated Interactions and designed many of the vibrant SIGCHI banners on display throughout the conference.

Well done to all concerned. SACHI group activities, conference keynote and plenary sessions are pictured below. CHI 2017 will be held in Denver, Colorado next year with a September deadline for papers and notes.

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Images courtesy of Aaron Quigley

Fixed term Lectureships in Computer Science

We seek applications for 2 lectureships in Computer Science. We welcome applications from excellent researchers who have a strong research background and excellent publication record in any area of computer science and a commitment to excellent teaching. These are fixed-term posts, lasting three years, however the School’s student numbers are currently growing rapidly, and if this is sustained we expect a number of permanent lectureships to open up over the next few years.

You should have a PhD, a period of postdoctoral experience and an outstanding research record as demonstrated by publications and research funding. You must be willing to cooperate with other researchers across the School and University and to teach in any area of Computer Science. Teaching is important to us and you should be a committed teacher, with appropriate experience.

Candidates interested in this post are welcome to informally contact Steve Linton hos-cs@st-andrews.ac.uk or Dharini Balasubramaniam dot-cs@st-andrews.ac.uk to discuss possible options.

For further information about the School of Computer Science, please see the further particulars.

Applications are particularly welcome from women, who are under-represented in science positions at the University. You can find out more about Equality & Diversity at https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/edi/.

The University of St Andrews is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all, which is further demonstrated through its working on the Gender and Race Equality Charters and being awarded the Athena SWAN award for women in science, HR Excellence in Research Award and the LGBT Charter; http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/edi/diversityawards/.
Information on how to apply.

Closing Date: 29 June 2016

SACHI contributes to Google’s Project Soli

The SACHI group’s contribution to Project Soli was selected and featured in the official alpha developer video released by Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP), and has subsequently been shown on stage during the Google I/O ATAP 2016 session earlier in May.

The team systematically explored the Soli and developed machine learning techniques to train and classify objects. Achieving advanced interactions in real time, at this scale with consumer ready devices is an exciting development within the project. Read more about their research and Project Soli experience in “Object recognition with the Project Soli in St Andrews”.

The team consisted of Hui-Shyong Yeo (a PhD student in SACHI), Patrick Schrempf (a 2nd year CS student), Gergely Flamich (a 2nd year CS student), Dr David Harris-Birtill (a senior research fellow in SACHI) and Professor Aaron Quigley.

Google's Project Soli workshop in March 2016

Google’s Project Soli workshop: March 2016

Teaching Rewards: Shyam Reyal

Congratulations to Shyam who featured as Instructor of the month with CodeFirst Girls and was nominated for a teaching award by undergraduate computer science students. Shyam has been busy working on first level modules this semester and his passion for Computer Science, friendly approachable personality and all his hard work, has been duly rewarded.

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