Biography
I started my "Computational Science" degree in St Andrews in 1981. I stayed here until 1996... doing a BSc, a PhD (in Ron Morrison's research group), various research jobs, and an SERC Postdoc Fellowship. After that I held an EPSRC Advanced Fellowship at Glasgow, a chair at Strathclyde (including spells as Director of Research and Head of Department), moved to Stirling in 2018 to head up the Division of Mathematics and Computer Science, and returned to St Andrews in 2020. Outside academia I've been quite involved with the commercialisation of research - with Reuters, when it existed, and a couple of hi-tech startups - Engimatec (now defunct!) and Cloudsoft (still operating in Edinburgh). I have also been involved in school-level CS education, am a co-author of Education Scotland's computing curriculum, and am the technical validator for SQA computing qualifications.
Teaching
I teach CS4103, Distributed Systems, as well as various project supervision and first-year programming tutorials.
PhD supervision
- Ben Claydon
Selected publications
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Open access
Correlations of cross-entropy loss in machine learning
Connor, R., Dearle, A., Claydon, B. & Vadicamo, L., 30 May 2024, In: Entropy. 26, 6, 16 p., 491.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Similarity search with multiple-object queries
Connor, R., Dearle, A., Morrison, D. & Chávez, E., 2023, Similarity Search and Applications: 16th International Conference, SISAP 2023, A Coruña, Spain, October 9–11, 2023, Proceedings. Pedreira, O. & Estivill-Castro, V. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 223-237 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 14289 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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A Ptolemaic partitioning mechanism
Connor, R., 28 Sept 2022, Similarity Search and Applications: 15th International Conference, SISAP 2022, Bologna, Italy, October 5–7, 2022, Proceedings. Skopal, T., Falchi, F., Lokoč, J., Sapino, M. L., Bartolini, I. & Patella, M. (eds.). Cham: Springer, Cham, p. 150-163 14 p. (Lecture notes in computer science; vol. 13590).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Investigating binary partition power in metric query
Connor, R., Dearle, A. & Vadicamo, L., 22 Aug 2022, SEBD 2022: proceedings of the the 30th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems. Amato, G., Bartalesi, V., Bianchini, D., Gennaro, C. & Torlone, R. (eds.). Online: CEUR-WS, Vol. 3194. p. 415-426 12 p. (Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems; vol. 3194).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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On the expected exclusion power of binary partitions for metric search
Vadicamo, L., Dearle, A. & Connor, R., 29 Sept 2022, Similarity search and applications: 15th International conference, SISAP 2022, Bologna, Italy, October 5–7, 2022, proceedings. Skopal, T., Falchi, F., Lokoč, J., Sapino, M. L., Bartolini, I. & Patella, M. (eds.). Cham: Springer, Cham, p. 104-117 14 p. (Lecture notes in computer science; vol. 13590).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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BitPart: exact metric search in high(er) dimensions
Dearle, A. & Connor, R., Jan 2021, In: Information Systems. 95, 14 p., 101493.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Query filtering using two-dimensional local embeddings
Vadicamo, L., Connor, R. & Chávez, E., 1 Nov 2021, In: Information Systems. 101, 13 p., 101808.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Re-ranking via local embeddings: a use case with permutation-based indexing and the nSimplex projection
Vadicamo, L., Gennaro, C., Falchi, F., Chávez, E., Connor, R. & Amato, G., Jan 2021, In: Information Systems. 95, 18 p., 101506.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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On the application of convex transforms to metric search
Connor, R., Dearle, A., Mic, V. & Zezula, P., Oct 2020, In: Pattern Recognition Letters. 138, p. 563-570Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Sampled angles in high-dimensional spaces
Connor, R. & Dearle, A., 2020, Similarity Search and Applications: 13th International Conference, SISAP 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 30–October 2, 2020, Proceedings. Satoh, S., Vadicamo, L., Zimek, A., Carrara, F., Bartolini, I., Aumüller, M., Jónsson, B. Þ. & Pagh, R. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 233-247 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI); vol. 12440).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution