Conferring of degrees June 2025
Over 1,000 students at University College Dublin were conferred with their degrees on Monday 23 June, among them many from the School of Computer Science.
PhD Conferrings
Twenty Computer Science PhD candidates were conferred with their doctorate in a ceremony in the O’Reilly Hall at UCD and celebrated their achievement afterwards.
Graduates (L-R) Dr Badri Narayanan, Dr James Murphy and Dr Qin Ruan with Assoc. Prof. Neil Hurley and Assoc. Prof. Brian Mac Namee. (out of picture Qin Ruan’s supervisor Assist. Prof. Ruihai Dong)
Dr Oshana Iddi Dissanayake with Professor Padraig Cunningham
Dr Yibrah Haile Gebreyesus with Assoc. Prof. Damian Dalton
Dr Rajitha Sandaruwan Ramanayake Ramanayake Mahanthamulla Gamage with Assist. Prof. Vivek Nallur
Dr Jordan Doyle pictured with Head of School Assoc. Prof. Neil Hurley
Additional new PhD graduates and their supervisors are:
Fanny Rivera Ortiz, PhD, Assoc. Prof Liliana Pasquale
Ning Tao, PhD, Dr Anthony Ventresque
Suad Alaofi, PhD, Assist. Prof. Sean Russell
James Kok Konjaang, PhD, Professor John Murphy
Dena Tayebi, PhD, Assist. Prof. Deepak Ajwani
Jiantao Wu, PhD, Assist. Prof. Soumyabrata Dev
Edoardo D'Amico, PhD, Assist. Prof. Aongus Lawlor
Frank Fowley, PhD, Dr Anthony Ventresque
Dairui Liu, PhD, Assist. Prof. Ruihai Dong
Farzin Matin, PhD, Professor Eleni Mangina
Thu Trang Nguyen, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Georgiana Ifrim
Anjan Venkatesh, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Colm Ryan
Eoghan Cunningham, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Derek Greene
UCD CS is currently home to over 100 PhD students. If you’d like to join them, read more about research degrees in the school https://www.ucd.ie/cs/study/researchdegrees/
MSc Advanced Software Engineering
This part-time masters programme is designed for experienced software engineers who wish to advance their skillset in areas of computer science and software development that impact directly on their work. Four MSc ASE students were conferred with their degree.
Chun Hin Lam, Lorcan O'Neill, Assoc. Prof. Mel Ó Cinnéide and Louise O'Sullivan.
Zhengzhang Lu with Assoc. Prof. Mel Ó Cinnéide
More information on the MSc Advanced Software Engineering programme - https://www.ucd.ie/cs/study/postgraduate/
MSc Computer Science (Conversion)
This is a skills conversion graduate programme for graduates in another discipline (e.g., Arts, Commerce), who would like to move into an IT related career.
63 students were conferred with their award.
More on the MSc Conversion programme https://www.ucd.ie/cs/study/postgraduate/
Thank you to Rosemary Deevy for the photographs.
7 July 2025