Two Departments, One Building, Let’s Play
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In the summer of 2025, the maths department moved in alongside computer science into the Ian Wand building. The table tennis table in our courtyard stood mostly unused, as did the table-football in the communal pod. I organised a table sports tournament to encourage people from both departments to have some fun getting to know each other over a game.
It was great to see so many willing participants and also the sense of community, with spectators and a fantastic pair of trophies produced in-house in the Institute for Safe Autonomy by one our colleagues James Hilder. The only shame was having to present both trophies to winners from the maths department. Hopefully next year CS can re-gain at least one of them.
The table football trophy, 3D printed especially for the occasion
After 6 years of working in the AI research group, I have taken up a research fellow postdoc position in the real-time and distributed systems group, specifically working on the SCHEME project (safety-critical harsh environment micro-processor evolution). I am applying many of the techniques from previous work such as feature engineering, algorithm selection, constraint programming in order to solve problems in robotics system.
ModRef has been an excellent venue for presenting cutting edge research, at the work in progress stage for researchers interested in constraint programming. As a PhD student, I found it a valuable stepping stone, enabling me to polish and improve my work before submitting it for publication.
Glasgow, here we come! It was very exciting to be a co-author on two papers accepted to CP2025 in Glasgow. One paper presents a constraint model used by the 
I’ve enjoyed solving the