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🎉PhD Viva Success: Craig Myles🎉

Congratulations to Craig Myles (supervised by Dr David Harris-Birtill) who has passed his PhD viva with minor corrections. Thanks to Dr Matthew Blackledge, The Institute of Cancer Research, for serving as the external examiner.

🐕‍🦺Therapy Dogs visit to CS 🐕‍🦺

🐾Taking a break from revision before exams commence, students and staff enjoyed a very welcome visit from Rod Stoddart and his therapy dogs Clova, Mia and new friend Buddy. Interaction with dogs can lower stress levels and increase happiness and motivation. Rod has been helping people with his therapy dogs for 10 years and is […]

Winter Graduation 2025

On behalf of the School of Computer Science, we would like to congratulate all of our graduating students. We wish you all the very best of luck! 🎓

PhD studentships available for 2026 entry

The School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews is offering a number of PhD scholarships for 3.5 years of study in our doctoral research programme for entry in 2026/7. UK, EU and International students are all eligible for fully-funded scholarships consisting of tuition and a stipend. These awards are part-funded through the […]

PGR Seminar: Ben Claydon and Joseph Loughney

You are warmly invited to the next PGR Seminar.  Monday 17/11/2025 14:00-15:00  JC 1.33A Speaker: Ben Claydon Title: Improvements to Space Partitioning Trees for Similarity Search Abstract: Searching large, unstructured collections of data for objects deemed of relevance to a user-provided query is an increasingly important task. For example, when a user inputs a query […]

PGR Seminar: Charis Hanna and Maria Andrei

You are warmly invited to the next PGR Seminar. Date and Time: Monday 10/11/2025 14:00-15:00 Location: JC 1.33A Speaker: Charis Hanna Title: Self-Supervised Learning for Efficient Ecological Monitoring Abstract: Cliff-nesting birds serve as valuable indicators of marine ecosystem health, yet dense populations and remote habitats present significant challenges for automated monitoring. With current state-of-the-art object […]

Winter Graduation Reception

We invite our graduating students and their guests to join us for a celebration of their achievements. Please come along to a small reception with a glass of fizz and some Fisher and Donaldson cakes. The event will take place on Tuesday 2nd December between 12.30pm and 2.30pm in the Jack Cole coffee area. We […]

School Seminar: Jon Rogers, "There's plenty of room in our communities: Rethinking computational scale through open hardware"

You are warmly invited to the third School Seminar: Speaker: Jon Rogers Title: There's plenty of room in our communities: Rethinking computational scale through open hardware Abstract: The dominant business model of Big Tech is built on scale. Scale to outpace competitors, capture global markets, and consolidate control. Today, just a handful of companies mediate […]

From Honours Project to Open-Source Application: Developing a Wireshark ILNP Dissector

Wireshark is one of the world's most widely used network analysis tools, and it comes with great pride that recent graduate Shubh Sinhal's CS4099 Project "Wireshark and ILNP" has been included within the tool's official codebase. Shubh developed a Wireshark ILNP dissector that could be used for the ease of study for researchers and students […]

AI Seminar ?" Symbolic reasoning with Dr Ruth Hoffmann Wednesday 29 October

Please join us for an in-person event entitled ‘Symbolic reasoning’ on Wednesday 29 October 2025 between 1:30pm and 3pm. To help monitor attendance, please register using the link below. This event is open to all members of the community at the University of St Andrews.   Speaker: Dr Ruth Hoffman, School of Computer Science, University of St […]