PhD Viva Success: Zihan Zhang
Congratulations to Zihan Zhang (supervised by Dr Blesson Varghese) who has passed his PhD viva subject to minor corrections. Thanks to Dr Poonam Yadav (University of York) for serving as the external examiner.
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Young Software Engineer of the Year 2025 Awards
Huge congratulations to Verity Powel, a winner at last night’s Young Software Engineer of the Year Awards (https://www.scotlandis.com/blog/rugby-video-tech-scores-top-award-for-st-andrews-student/). Her final year…
Honours Welcome Reception
Drinks and nibbles were on offer for our very well attended Honours Welcome Reception in the Jack Cole coffee area this week. Good luck to all of our returning students for the coming academic year!
Board Games Afternoon
Thanks to all who attended the Board Games afternoon on Wednesday. There was a great turnout and it was good to see everyone enjoying themselves before teaching begins next week!
Retirement of Professor Alan Dearle
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…
PhD Viva Success: Yaxiong Lei
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.
Research Activities by Open Virtual Worlds Research Group
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…
Graduation Reception – Thursday 3rd July 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…
CS Grant Writing Away Day
Staff and PGR students from the School enjoyed a grant-writing “away day” on Thursday 12th June. There were useful discussions on structure of UKRI grants, applications and assessment of grants. Lunch, cakes and…
PhD Viva Success: Bailey Eccles
Congratulations to Bailey, who has successfully defended his PhD thesis with minor corrections. Bailey was supervised by Dr Blesson Varghese. Thanks to Dr Yehia Elkhatib from the University of Glasgow, who was the…