Oscar Winner Alumni awarded University Fellow
5 April 2012Dr Jan Jaroslav Pinkava will be honoured by Aberystwyth University during the 2012 Graduation Ceremonies in July, as a University Fellow. The title of Fellow is awarded to honour distinguished people who have a close association with Aberystwyth University or who have made an outstanding contribution to professional or public life in Wales.
Hoover Award
26 April 2012Aberystwyth University (Professor Reyer Zwiggelaar at the Department of Computer Science) has been awarded a £60,000 grant to fund an innovative research project aimed at improving how prostate cancer, the most common cancer in men, is diagnosed.
Head of Department Elected to Fellowship of Learned Society of Wales
27 April 2012Professor Qiang Shen, Head of the Department has been elected to Fellowship of the Learned Society of Wales, the national academy of Wales.
Head of Department Nominated to Carry the Olympic Torch.
21 March 2012Qiang Shen, Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University has been nominated to carry the torch in Aberystwyth on May 27th.
Speaking of the news he said “2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth on Alan Turing, the founder of computer science and artificial.........
PhD Students at CompSci Receive Prestigious Award
4 July 2012Two PhD students with the Department of Computer Science, have been awarded the Best Student Paper Prize, as one of the two best paper awards at the 21st IEEE International conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2012).
New Academic Appointments
31 August 2012Dr Georgios Gkoutos has been appointed to Reader in Bioinformatics with effect from 1 August 2012.
Dr Chuan Lu has been appointed as a Lecturer in Bioinformatics with effect from 1 May 2012 for 30 months.