Prof Richard Connor

Prof Richard Connor

Professor of Computer Science

Researcher profile

Email
rchc@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

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
  • Ben Claydon

Selected publications

  • Open access

    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

  • Open access

    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.). Springer, Cham, p. 150-163 14 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 13590).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Open access

    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

  • Open access

    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

  • Open access

    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Open access

    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. 563-570

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    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

  • Open access

    Modelling string structure in vector spaces

     Connor, R., Dearle, A. & Vadicamo, L., 9 Jul 2019, Proceedings of the 27th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems: Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto), Italy, June 16th to 19th, 2019. Mecella, M., Amato, G. & Gennaro, C. (eds.). Sun SITE Central Europe, 12 p. 45. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; vol. 2400).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

 

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