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MSc in Information Technology:

Year of entry: (Titles before 2010 not available; 2018 was the final year)
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

MSc in Advanced Computing:

Year of entry: (Titles before 2010 not available; 2013 was the final year)
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

MSc in Software Engineering:

Year of entry: (Programme commenced in 2014; 2017 was the final year)
2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

MSc in Computing for Financial Markets:

Year of entry: (Titles before 2010 not available; 2017 was the final year)
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

MSc in Computing for Business:

Year of entry: (Programme commenced in 2013; 2017 was the final year)
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

MSc in Big Data:

Year of entry: (Programme commenced in 2014)
2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

MSc in FinTech:

Year of entry: (Programme commenced in 2018)
2018, 2019, 2020

MSc in Mathematics and Data Science:

Year of entry: (Programme commenced in 2018)
2018, 2019, 2020

MSc in Artificial Intelligence:

Year of entry: (Programme commenced in 2020)
2020

MSc in Big Data 2020-2021
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view posters © the authors)
H Al Kueder	Recommender Systems based on Natural Language Processing	N/A	Gabriela Ochoa
C Alva	Classification of crowd motion using Computer Vision and ML	N/A	Deepayan Browmik
A Andreadakis	Movies Recommendation Systems	N/A	Gabriela Ochoa

MSc in Aritificial Intelligence 2020-2021
Student	Project title	Dissertation	Poster	Supervisor
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D Harvey	A Guiding Hand: Helping the Visually Impaired Locate Objects	View	N/A	Kevin Swingler
J Jobbo	Large Scale Global Optimisation of Housing Improvements	View	N/A	Sandy Brownlee
K Ntim	Towards Faster, Greener AI	View	N/A	Sandy Brownlee
I Scott	Semantic Segmentation of Amazon Floodplains using Multi-sensor Satellite Imagery	View	N/A	Keiller Nogueira
A Kottermair	Improving pathfinding in video games: An adaptation of the A* algorithm in a python-based video game	View	N/A	Andy Hoyle

MSc in Financial Technology (FinTech) 2020-2021
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view posters © the authors)
R Alabi	Blockchain Technology: Optimising Financial Inclusion in Nigeria	N/A	Andrea Bracalli
H Babatunde	Ionic-Based Mobile Financial Application using Truelayer API	N/A	Mario Kolberg

MSc in Mathematics and Data Science 2020-2021
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view posters © the authors)
Z Cui	Rumour spreading as Markovian and Non-Markovian processes	N\A	Anthony O'hare
L Faulkner	Replication and Improvement of a Novel River Flow Data Synthesis Methodology	N\A	Nora Tanner
J Hilton	Is delirium associated with an increased risk of developing new dementia?	N\A	Simona Hapca

MSc in Financial Technology (FinTech) 2019-2020
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view posters © the authors)
R Alabi	Blockchain Technology: Optimising Financial Inclusion in Nigeria	N/A	Andrea Bracalli
H Babatunde	Ionic-Based Mobile Financial Application using Truelayer API	N/A	Mario Kolberg
H Broomhall	A Time Series Analysis of Cryptocurrencies	N/A	Andrea Bracalli
J George	Analysing affects of Fintech related developers on GitHub repository	N/A	Saemundur Haraldsson
A Grenfell	Life path prediction with Hidden Markov Models	N/A	Andrea Bracalli
J Jabbo	Towards Faster, Greener AI: Multi-Objective Optimisation of AI/ML Classification Models for Energy Efficient Green Computing with Mobile Devices in Financial Services	N/A	Sandy Brownlee
T X Khuc	Decentralized Lending Platforms Limitations & Opportunities Aave–FastForward	N/A	Andrea Bracalli
F Onwuegbuche	System Properties based Malware Detection using Machine Learning	N/A	Deepayan Browmik
U Piotrkowicz	Applying Machine Learning to decrease involuntary churn	N/A	Andrea Bracalli
M Rizeq	Artificial Intelligence Decision Making Support System For Cryptocurrency Trading Across Numerous Exchanges	N/A	Jason Adair
K Saint-Amand	Selection of Optimal Peer-to-Peer Loan Portfolios	N/A	Jason Adair
Z Sikhondze	Secure App Authorisation for Open Banking APIs Using OAuth	N/A	Mario Kolberg
J Soto	Creation of a demonstrator application to secure and validate qualifications using distributed ledger technology (blockchain)	N/A	Mario Kolberg
T Ssebulime	Predicting Loan Repayment using machine learning	N/A	Mario Kolberg

MSc in Mathematics and Data Science 2019-2020
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view posters © the authors)
Z Cui	Rumour spreading as Markovian and Non-Markovian processes	N\A	Anthony O'hare
L Faulkner	Replication and Improvement of a Novel River Flow Data Synthesis Methodology	N\A	Nora Tanner
J Hilton	Is delirium associated with an increased risk of developing new dementia?	N\A	Simona Hapca
A Lyall	Optimisation of Antibiotic Treatment Regimens Using Differential Evolution to Maximise Host Survival	N\A	Andy Hoyle
N Nishi	Optimal Heuristic Selection Using Machine Learning Techniques	N\A	Paul McMenemy
S Smith	The Link Between Stock Prices, Traditional News and Social Media	N\A	Anthony O'hare
G Vekic	Forecasting flooding events in central Scotland using Hidden Markov Models	N\A	Nora Tanner

MSc in Big Data 2019-2020
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view posters © the authors)
H Al Kueder	Recommender Systems based on Natural Language Processing	N/A	Gabriela Ochoa
C Alva	Classification of crowd motion using Computer Vision and ML	N/A	Deepayan Browmik
A Andreadakis	Movies Recommendation Systems	N/A	Gabriela Ochoa
A Avallone	Investigating the efficacy of non-pharmaceutical responses for managing the COVID-19 pandemic	N/A	Savi Maharaj
M Bath	Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Computer Vision Technology for Classification and Identifying Spatial Relationships in Images	N/A	Kevin Swingler
R Butron	Baggage X-Ray object detection using computer vision	N/A	Kevin Swingler
J Campbell	Significance testing on the NHS CAIR dashboard	N/A	Paul McMenemy
R Clegg	Machine Learning for Housing Optimisation	N/A	Sandy Brownlee
W Dineen	Energy Market Data Interface	N/A	Jingpeng Li
K Duffus	Trend Codes: Elision, Expert or a Little Bit of Both?	N/A	Patrick Maier
A Frederickson	Understanding your "data body": Accessing, visualising, and communicating your digital footprint	N/A	Bruce Graham
O Gomez	Time Series Analysis using Clustering and LSTM Neural Network for COVID-19	N/A	Sandy Brownlee
A Halebeedu	Fake News Detection Using NLP and Machine Learning	N/A	Deepayan Browmik
P Harflett	Time Series Anomaly Detection in a Water Network	N/A	Paul McMenemy
O Jogunola	Calculation and Optimisation of Finished Product Safety Stock Inventory	N/A	Gabriela Ochoa
G Kousovista	Trusting the algorithm	N/A	Bruce Graham
J Looman	Stock trading with Reinforcement Learning and Sentiment Analysis	N/A	Sandy Brownlee
O McIntosh	Computer Vision for Food Recognition	N/A	Kevin Swingler
M Omale	Learning to Learn: Using Meta-Learning for Semantic Segmentation	N/A	Keiller Nogueira
F O'Neill	Forecasting Share Price Returns with Interpretable Deep Learning Models	N/A	Bruce Graham
E Osei	Who is driving the narratives about Artificial Intelligence?	N/A	Bruce Graham
S Pathak	Image Auto Captioning using Deep Learning	N/A	Deepayan Browmik
E Patrick	Chatbot for Law Education: Alternative Dispute Resolution	N/A	Bruce Graham
G Pichatwatana	Exploiting Deep Learning for Face Recognition	N/A	Keiller Nogueira
S Praemuang	Multi-Task Learning for remote sensing applications	N/A	Keiller Nogueira
S Rafiu	Leveraging deep learning to detect malaria parasites	N/A	Gabriela Ochoa
L Rincon	Social Media and Approval Ratings	N/A	David Cairns
A Saba	COVID-19 Prediction using machine learning	N/A	Gabriela Ochoa
M Swann	Generalisation of Deep Fake Detection	N/A	Deepayan Browmik
A Wallace	Trapdoors in Machine learning for Malware Detection	N/A	Sandy Brownlee
N Ye	Machine Learning of Handwriting Digit Recognition Using Neural Network and Feature Extraction	N/A	Jingpeng Li
Z Zhang	Handwriting Recognition Based on Convolutional Neural Network	N/A	Jingpeng Li

MSc in Information Technology 2018-2019
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view posters © the authors)
P Kode	Dashboard Creation and Long-Term Trend Analysis for Sport Survey Data	View	Bruce Graham
N Rafique	A Brookshear Machine Emulator for Teaching	View	Simon Jones

MSc in Financial Technology (FinTech) 2018-2019
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
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J Amoako Mensah	Security Implementations and Vulnerabilities in the Interaction Between Point of Sale Systems, Payment Cards and Near Field Communication Devices	N/A	David Cairns
B Aryee	Application of Machine Learning Techniques in forecasting stock return considering analyst recommendations	View	Bruce Graham
R Bradley	Optimising Latency in Unstructured Peer to Peer Networks	View	Andrea Bracciali
T Caramelli	InDaChain: Join the Future	View	Andrea Bracciali
N Cetoupe	Building an online platform for issuance of Treasury Bills	View	Andrea Bracciali
J Haston	A Book-keeping Application for Small Business Users using Open Banking APIs	View	Mario Kolberg
P Herrera Lopez Guerrero	InDaChain: Transparency across the Supply: Chain Proof-of-Concept based on smart contracts	View	Andrea Bracciali
V Katragadda	Decentralized payments Application	View	David Cairns
G Kaur	Development of Business Intelligence Outlier and financial crime analytics system for predicting and managing fraud in financial payment services	View	Sandy Brownlee
P Lu-Czartoryjski	Testing Methodology and Test Automation Tooling Within the Data Engineering Space	View	Simon Jones
T Mabhoyi	What are the uses of financial technology within the financial services industry?	View	David Cairns
M Safarini	INDACHAIN: The Market	View	Andrea Bracciali
Y Sesarahditya	Digital Payment for Restaurant Using the QR Code	View	Mario Kolberg
J Van Ginkel	How could a blockchain insurance application (Dapp) solve problems in traditional insurance?	View	Andrea Bracciali
Y Vikhankar	Developing a Decentralized Application that supports file uploads on the Ethereum blockchain by using the Interplanetary File System	View	Carron Shankland

MSc in Mathematics and Data Science 2018-2019
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
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G Diack	Streamlining Statistical Disclosure Control Methods for Health Data Research Output	View	Kate Howie
D Doig	Beyond the hype: A real-life study of a data science approach to corporate failure prediction	N/A	Anthony O'Hare
E Mpezeni	21st Century Changes in the Distribution of Great British Wealth	View	Andy Hoyle
R O'Hare	An Analysis of the Camping Management Byelaws 2017	N/A	Andy Hoyle

MSc in Big Data 2018-2019
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view posters © the authors)
S Amoah	Curling Data Analytics	View	Bruce Graham
E Argyropoulos	Claims Reporting Tool	View	Mario Kolberg
N Bannikoppa	Taxonomy Automation (Topic Modelling from Hotel Reviews)	View	Simon Jones
V Bardakos	Investigate the link between the media and stock prices	View	Paul McMenemy
B Chen	Data Analytics for Curling	View	Bruce Graham
A Das	Modelling and Improving Home Energy Performance	View	Sandy Brownlee
S Ezu	A workflow for data quality, identification and characterisation of upstream oil and gas exploration well activities using global gas flare data	N/A	Gabriela Ochoa
S Fisicaro	Implementation of Convolutional Neural Networks with Transfer Learning to Detect Smoke in Images	View	Saemi Haraldsson
T Fomicheva	Press-Release Classification & Sorting	View	Kevin Swingler
M Harbola	Crowd analysis from drone footages using image processing and machine learning	View	Deepayan Bhowmik
M Haworth	Development of a Volunteer Advisor Bot for Volunteer Scotland	View	Simon Jones
N Hocking	A Comparison of Relational Against NoSQL Databases Using a Case Study of a Management System for a TEFL Language School	View	Simon Jones
Y Hu	Mathematics in Medical Imaging	View	Jozsef Farkas
I Israr	Greener AI	View	Sandy Brownlee
T Jaruwetchayasom	Predicting Stock Prices Using a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)	View	Jingpeng Li
F Kamunde	Fake Image detection using Deep Learning	View	Deepayan Bhowmik
A Kiatkamolvong	Better modelling of aircraft taxi movements	View	Sandy Brownlee
J Kolath	Natural Language Processing of Online Hate Speech	View	Kevin Swingler
G Koliopoulos	Customer Churn Prediction using machine learning	View	Simon Jones
A Krotov	Computer Vision Food Classifier	View	Kevin Swingler
A Lawal	Data Quality Assessment: Towards Predicting Scottish Based Companies at Risk	N/A	Sandy Brownlee
B Mahajan	Modelling and Predicting Cyber Hacking Breaches using Machine Learning techniques	View	Deepayan Bhowmik
S Makam Chandra Shekar	Guiding Hand - Helping the Visually Impaired locate close objects	View	Kevin Swingler
A Mehta	Exploration of data extraction techniques as a means to generate data on livestock productivity and mortality in Sub Saharan Africa	N/A	Jingpeng Li
S Modaresi	Neural Network Development for Socio-ecological Modelling of Conservation Conflict	View	Gabriela Ochoa
A Nelson	Predicting Mid-Term Customer Cancellations in the UK Auto Insurance Market	View	Kevin Swingler
S Nicholson	Use of Data Science to Augment Existing Economic Statistics	View	Kevin Swingler
N Polack	NHS Scotland Open Data: A data visualisation study about child health	View	Gabriela Ochoa
M Redenti	The social-housing allocation problem in Scotland	View	David Cairns
T Ricci	Household estimation using web traffic data	View	Gabriela Ochoa
V Richardson	Classifying Accounting Journals by Nature	View	Carron Shankland
L Samaila	Applying Big Data Skills for Social Science: An Application to FixMyStreet Citizen Report	View	Carron Shankland
M Simpson	The sentiment analysis of online news articles before and after a controversial event	View	David Cairns
T Somthip	Computer-Aided Design for Dementia	View	Kevin Swingler
L Tan	Deep Learning and Binocular Vision	View	Bruce Graham
T Wallace	Automated prominence analysis of Twitter networks	View	Gabriela Ochoa
T Yaqoob	Dude, Where's My Mug? An Image Driven Dialogue	View	Kevin Swingler
R Yuan	Image Auto-Captioning	View	Deepayan Bhowmik

MSc in Information Technology 2017-2018
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view posters © the authors)
P Cleary	An E-Recruitment Feature for Youmanage	N/A	Mario Kolberg
G Isdale	A Prediction of Youth Football Players’ Future Sporting Success Using Neural Networks and Machine Learning	View	Bruce Graham
C Lough	"Me, my Best Friend and I": A PhoneGap and AWS Application"	View	Mario Kolberg
C Mcmurtrie	The Use of Format Preserving Encryption in Bag of Words Machine Learning Algorithms	View	Bruce Graham
M Ostapcuka	Academic Skills Evaluation System	N/A	Simon Jones
J Palmer	L Plates	View	Mario Kolberg
C Smeaton	A real-time radiation detection system	N/A	Simon Jones
V Szymanska	Visualizing Learning Analytics Data at the University of Stirling	View	Carron Shankland
J Thompson	An Android Studio app with a Poincare live display that visualizes Heart Rate Variability from a Bluetooth HR Sensor	N/A	Andrea Bracciali

MSc in Software Engineering 2017-2018
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view posters © the authors)
O Anderson	Turn Based Strategy Game	N/A	Bruce Graham
A Davies	Mapping Limb Position using Accelerometer Data to Analyse Athletic Technique	View	David Cairns
S Houston	Mobile Application for Mathematical Revision	View	Mario Kolberg
C Peters	A State Diagram Tool for Teaching	View	Simon Jones

MSc in Computing for Financial Markets 2017-2018
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view posters © the authors)
D Levey	Risk optimization of a momentum strategy stock portfolio using time series forecasting	View	Simon Jones

MSc in Computing for Business 2017-2018
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view posters © the authors)
D Coll	An Investigation of Blockchain technology and the potential disruptions, benefits and risks associated with it and development of a Smart Contract	N/A	Andrea Bracciali
Y Duan	Project Management Software: Resource Part	View	Andrea Bracciali
C Lepper	Pulsync	N/A	Simon Jones
Y Zhou	Project Schedule Software	View	Andrea Bracciali

MSc in Big Data 2017-2018
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view posters © the authors)
A Abbas	Object Localization on Large-Scale Egocentric Video Dataset	View	Kevin Swingler
Y Al Kindi	A Statistical Optimization Driven Approach for Intrusion Detection using Deep Learning Neural Networks	View	Ahsan Adeel
J Bell	Predicting Mortality in Scottish Healthcare Users	View	David Cairns
A Bhartiya	Machine Learned Floor Plan Identification	N/A	Kevin Swingler
B Bhullar	Feasibility of Using an API for Census Outputs	N/A	Simon Jones
M Boulanger	Time Series Forecasting using Regression: Predicting drilling costs in the energy sector using several features	N/A	Bruce Graham
C Boyd	Aircraft Taxi Routing Optimisation	View	Sandy Brownlee
I Calumarte	Improving Cognitively Impaired Vision using Computer Vision	View	Kevin Swingler
R Cheruiyot	Time Series Prediction: Investigation of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Neural Network	N/A	Leslie Smith
A Cowan	AI-led meetings	View	Bruce Graham
V Dcosta	To select venture capitalist to recruit investors and investment	N/A	Jingpeng Li
J Dhamodaran	Trend Prediction Using Fashion Data Set	N/A	Jingpeng Li
S Diaz	Bitcoin: Mining Pools’ Governance	View	Andrea Bracciali
G Fantini	Optimization process for business expansion through Object Oriented Programming and Database normalization	N/A	Savi Maharaj
S Fenn	Using Big Data Techniques to Support Organisational Transformation in Scottish Enterprise	N/A	Andrea Bracciali
L Fraser Edmans	Categorisation and Sentiment Analysis of Free Text	N/A	Sandy Brownlee
S Gaidhankar	Sentiment Analysis of the Hotel Reviews	View	Savi Maharaj
T Gatkal	Analysis of hotel ratings and visualization	View	Savi Maharaj
M Goranova	The Structure of Co-authorship Networks in Evolutionary Computation	N/A	Gabriela Ochoa
H Graham	Detecting toxicity in online discussion	View	Carron Shankland
M Gupta	Real Time Bitcoin Blockchain Data Analysis	View	Andrea Bracciali
J Houston	A streaming ETL pipeline	N/A	Mario Kolberg
V Jain	A Knowledge Driven Search with Evolutionary Ruin and Stochastic Rebuild: Case Studies of Traveling Salesman Problem	View	Jingpeng Li
P Johnston	Predicting Cryptocurrency (Tezos) price change through Twitter Sentiment Analysis	View	Andrea Bracciali
G Kashani	Extracting Valuable Features from Data with Non-Negative Matrix Factorisation (NMF)	View	Ahsan Adeel
M Khalil	Data Analysis and visualization for determining the impact of point of sale legislation on smoking behaviour among adolescents in Scotland	N/A	Savi Maharaj
M Kiemer	Driving Customer Value by Engineering Novel Features from Big Data	N/A	Mario Kolberg
N Kirkpatrick	Image Classification and Object Detection in the Oil and Gas Industry	N/A	Sandy Brownlee
L Ma	Is China's Two-child Policy opening correctly?	N/A	Jingpeng Li
I Maclachlan	Mixed Order Hyper-Networks for Optimisation: Samples and Structures	View	Kevin Swingler
T Malik	Deep Learning Driven Optimized Centralized Random Backoff (CRB) for Collision Resolution in Wi-Fi Networks	N/A	Ahsan Adeel
F Mensah	Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Animal Health Data: A Scoping Project	View	Carron Shankland
S Notra	Using 3D Headphone to locate the detected object from Computer Vision through sound	View	Kevin Swingler
P Olsen	Predicting Change in Cryptocurrency Values Using Articles and Historical Cryptocurrency Values	View	Simon Jones
K Osafo	Data Visualisation Analysis on Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) in Scotland	N/A	Carron Shankland
E Osisioma	Visualising and Predicting the Performance of Optimization Algorithms	View	Gabriela Ochoa
J Park	Comparative Loan Default Classification Analytics using “Alteryx” Data Mining Tool	N/A	Savi Maharaj
N Prousalis	Better Modelling of Aircraft Taxi Movements	View	Sandy Brownlee
D Saini	Forecasting Irrigation Schedule for farms in India	N/A	Savi Maharaj
S Saxena	Market research on how customers are affected by the new European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) mandate in Europe	N/A	Savi Maharaj
G Shooter	Home Improvement Recommender	N/A	Sandy Brownlee
K Simonova	Identifying and Visualising Cancer Pathways Following Diagnosis	N/A	David Cairns
J Somasundaram	Implementation of Regime Cast and LSTM in Forecasting	N/A	Jingpeng Li
J Storz	Artificial Intelligence for Trading Strategy Optimization on FTSE 100 Using Insider Trading Information	View	David Cairns
V Sudan	Creating Chatbot Using Natural Language Processing & Natural Language Understanding	N/A	Bruce Graham
S Suresh Kumar	Developing a Search Tool for Veterinary Pathology Reports Using Natural Language Processing	N/A	Bruce Graham
M Wallace	Domain Specific Text Summarization	View	Bruce Graham
G White	"My Diabetes My Way: Insights, Usage and Outcomes"	N/A	David Cairns
Y Xue	A Knowledge Driven Search with Evolutionary Ruin and Stochastic Rebuild: Case Studies of Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problems	N/A	Jingpeng Li
J Yang	Potential of Sentiment Analysis on Emojis	N/A	Leslie Smith
N Zanandrea	Harnessing the power of open data to create a profile of GP prescription practices across the NHS	N/A	David Cairns

MSc in Information Technology 2016-2017
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view posters © the authors)
L Davie	Development of an Application to Aid School Teachers in Planning an Off-Site Visit	View	Mario Kolberg
T Dowland	Developing a Local Tourism Application for Android	View	Bruce Graham
A Kamer	Ewa – Emotion and Wellbeing Association (Android) Application	N/A	Bruce Graham
M Kennedy	Eureka! A Proposition for the Gamification of Education	N/A	Savi Maharaj
J Kuyota	Implementation of a Web Management System for INAGBE's Student Control	View	Marwan Fayed
F Mbah	Computer Based Aptitude Test	View	Simon Jones
R Taylor	The Scripted Debugging of Java Program via the Java Platform Debug Architecture	View	Simon Jones

MSc in Software Engineering 2016-2017
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view posters © the authors)
S Gesawat	An Ecommerce Hybrid App for the Stone Market	View	Mario Kolberg
M Hofhanzl	Construction of Employee Engagement Survey Component	View	Mario Kolberg
Q Liu	Basis on Java, Integration of Car Park	View	Evan Magill
A Marmion	Navigating Across Piste Maps	View	Mario Kolberg
A Woods	Scottish Certificates Web Development for Clackmannanshire Council	View	Mario Kolberg

MSc in Computing for Financial Markets 2016-2017
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view posters © the authors)
K Cheung	Financial Budgeting Mobile Application	View	Simon Jones
Y Xu	A Trading System Built by Genetic Algorithm	View	Sandy Brownlee

MSc in Computing for Business 2016-2017
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view posters © the authors)
D Jones	A Warehouse Management System Integration Solution	View	Mario Kolberg
P Sueskul	Automatic Newsfeed Creation	View	Leslie Smith

MSc in Big Data 2016-17
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view posters © the authors)
M Al-Anqoudi	Tweet Locations into Google Maps	View	John Woodward
S Bennis	Data Analyst HSBC: Development of a Business Intelligence chain to manage A Human Resources project	N/A	Andrea Bracciali
P Butlin	Machine Learning Towards an AI Beer Sommelier	View	Leslie Smith
N Donnelly	An Automatic Detection of Rugby Union Player Motions Using Time Series Analysis	View	Carron Shankland
J Flynn	Data Driven Analysis of Home Care Data	View	David Cairns
M Gardiner	Development of a platform for Big Data as a Service using open source software	View	Marwan Fayed
R Hamlet	Scalable Online Machine Learning with Streaming Data using Apache Spark	View	Kevin Swingler
D Haveron	Multilayer Perceptrons for Structural Health Monitoring of welded bridge joints based on Temperature, Traffic and Strain Monitoring Outcomes	View	Kevin Swingler
P Henriksen	Temperature Predictions for the snap40 Wearable Device	View	David Cairns
W Iadanza	A Knowledge Driven Search with Evolutionary Ruin and Stochastic Rebuild	View	Jingpeng Li
M Jaggavarapu	Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis for Customer Feedback Analysis in Sports Industry	N/A	Amir Hussain
S Jenney	Optimal Selection of a Fantasy Football Team	N/A	Leslie Smith
V Kamath	Twitter Analytics for Journalism	View	John Woodward
S MacNeil	In-game Win Probability Model for the Sport of Curling	N/A	Bruce Graham
M Mansha	Sentiment Analysis using Neural Networks	View	Marwan Fayed
C Millar	Optimising care workers' schedules	View	Carron Shankland
B Moharana	Automatic Summarisation of Product Reviews using Text Mining	View	John Woodward
S Najmuddin	Using Twitter to detect crime and terrorism levels in London	View	John Woodward
D Nyakas	Natural language processing to extract information from pathology reports for targeted cancer treatment	View	David Cairns
A Sampri	Accurate retrieval of the water quality parameters using Remote Sensing Data	View	Gabriela Ochoa
A Sangtawesin	EDAs, What are They Good For?	View	Kevin Swingler
A Sdralias	The Use of Convolutional Neural Networks in Counting Objects in Still Satellite Images	N/A	Kevin Swingler
S Shackelford	Computer Vision Mobile Application Integration for Dementia-Friendly Environments	View	Kevin Swingler
L Sinton	Detection of Road Defects through Signal Processing and Classification Techniques	N/A	Leslie Smith
G Spinelli Barrile	The Dumyat Initiative	N/A	John Woodward
K Vougioukas	Linear and quadratic programming by neural networks for financial planning applications	View	Bruce Graham
E Watson	How contextual information affects the performance of predictive behavioural modelling in games	View	EMarwan Fayed
Z Yu	P2P Data Transfer Application	N/A	Amir Hussain

MSc in Information Technology 2015-2016
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view title pages, abstracts, and posters © the authors)
B Alodhaybi	Intelligent Decision Support Systems for cancer diagnosis through state of the art machine learning algorithms	View	Amir Hussain
M Christie	A Radical approach to learning the Japanese Kanji	View	Mario Kolberg
M Coughlan	Creation of a Location Based Notification Application: Safety Locator	View	Simon Jones
D Fulton	An Occupational Evaluation Android App for Neuropsychologist UK	View	Mario Kolberg
R Hirst	Violin Tutor	View	Leslie Smith
E Hughes	Data Analysis by Machine Learning with Weka from A Consumer Activity Tracker	View	Mario Kolberg
M Mustapha	Implementing Speech-to-text Technologies for on-the-go CRM	View	Mario Kolberg
Q Shi	Dynamic Website	View	Jingpeng Li

MSc in Software Engineering 2015-2016
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view title pages, abstracts, and posters © the authors)
J Hart	Sentiment Analysis using Twitter for the EU Referendum	View	Amir Hussain
M Xu	Goose Scaring Game	View	Savi Maharaj
J Yang	A system protection software base on the virtual restoring technology in Windows operating systems (Shadow machine)	View	Jingpeng Li

MSc in Computing for Financial Markets 2015-2016
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view title pages, abstracts, and posters © the authors)
M Bell	Towards a real-time asset-backed cryptocurrency	N/A	Marwan Fayed
I Deligianni	Mixed Order Hyper Networks Interface	View	Kevin Swingler
O Rios	Financial and Portfolio Manager Website	View	Bruce Graham
J Rodriquez	Automated Trading Systems applied to the Forex Exchange Market	View	Simon Jones

MSc in Computing for Business 2015-2016
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view title pages, abstracts, and posters © the authors)
H Gil	Search Advisor Experiment for Online Shopping	View	Simon Jones

MSc in Big Data 2015-16
Student	Project title	Poster	Supervisor
(click to view title pages/abstracts, and posters © the authors)
N Arafat	Sentiment Analysis	View	Amir Hussain
J Arnold	There is No Such Thing as the Colony? Thatcherism in Heuristic Search: A Big Data Investigation	View	John Woodward
C Artimof	Beyond the linear regression analysis: Comparison of machine learning algorithms in social science research	View	Leslie Smith
T Bhaduri	Security Data Analysis using Web Server Log Files	View	David Cairns
M Costan	Failure Prediction in Cluster Systems	View	Savi Maharaj
T Davenport	ECOS Project: Using Data Analysis to Improve Marketing Response at D.C. Thomson	View	Andrea Bracciali
R Dixit	Machine-Learning Methods Applied to Calving Prediction of Dairy Cattle	N/A	Kevin Swingler
D Dlamini	A Survery and Analysis of Benchmark Fitness Functions	View	Kevin Swingler
R Fairley	Grading Dashboard	N/A	Savi Maharaj
A Fasoro	Financial Graph: Applying Graph Analytics to Consumers' Financial Statement Transaction Data	View	John Woodward
D Hunter	Big Data Recipes	View	Kevin Swingler
C Kargidis	Transport and Mobility Analytics	View	David Cairns
F Leighton	Dimensionality, Scale and Cognition in Large Dataset Visualisation	View	Gabriela Ochoa
C Lunny	Big Data Analytics for the U SMART Smart Cities Platform	N/A	Gabriela Ochoa
R Oakes	Big Data Recipes	View	Kevin Swingler
E Osimosu	CompareML - A Web Application for Comparing and Evaluating Machine Learning Algorithms on Datasets	View	EJohn Woodward
I Panagiotas	Counting Triangles in Large Graphs	View	Marwan Fayed
E Racheva	Forecasting Staff in Emergency Departments NHS England	View	Evan Magill
L Salami	Machine Learning Analytics in Social and Health Care using Topic Modelling (Case Review Application)	View	Gabriela Ochoa
F Sann	Identifying topics for content creation	View	Evan Magill
S Somasundaram	Building a Scalable, Open Source Software based IoT Stack	View	David Cairns
E Tekkanat	Fnancial Statement Analyses and Visualizing it as a Graph	View	Jingpeng Li
M Vardanega	Analysis of Sentiment Direction Based on Two Centuries of the Hansard Debate Archive	View	Leslie Smith
B Wiriyapong	Optimising Capacity and Performance Management for Cloud Services	View	Andrea Bracciali

MSc in Information Technology 2014
Student	Project title	Talk	Supervisor
(click to view title pages abstracts, and talks © the authors)
AJ Chamberlain	Development of a Retirement/Financial Planning Game on Android	View	Mario Kolberg
TI Davenport	A Web Interface of Open Big Data Lifestyle Information	View	Kevin Swingler
L Harcus	Evaluator Application for Vocational Interests	View	Mario Kolberg

MSc in Software Engineering 2014
Student	Project title	Talk	Supervisor
(click to view title pages abstracts, and talks © the authors)

MSc in Computing for Financial Markets 2014
Student	Project title	Talk	Supervisor
(click to view title pages abstracts, and talks © the authors)
J Lu	Management System for the Company Requirement	View	Andrea Bracciali
LM Nisbet	Contribution Model of Credit Cards	N/A	Mario Kolberg

MSc in Computing for Business 2014
Student	Project title	Talk	Supervisor
(click to view title pages abstracts, and talks © the authors)
V Janous	Extending YouManage's functionality of data export	View	Mario Kolberg
A Mao	Cross-platform Feedback Plug-in System	View	David Cairns
ZL Maung	Food Court Management System	View	Simon Jones
AMA Qutaishat	The Green Forest Project	View	Savi Maharaj

MSc in Big Data 2014
Student	Project title	Talk	Supervisor
(click to view title pages abstracts, and talks © the authors)
A Sampays	Modelling Social relationships for a social care system	View	Kevin Swingler

MSc in Information Technology 2013
Student	Project title	Talk	Supervisor
(click to view title pages abstracts, and talks © the authors)
LAL Bostock	A Cross Platform Mobile Application for YouManage	View	Mario Kolberg
S Boyle	A Standalone Civic Reporting Function for Clackmannanshire Council's Website	View	Mario Kolberg
SJ Gray	Value at Risk: Visual Approaches to Scrutinising Investment Risk	View	Kevin Swingler

MSc in Advanced Computing 2013
Student	Project title	Talk	Supervisor
(click to view title pages abstracts, and talks © the authors)
Z Yu	An Activity Schedule Application	View	Mario Kolberg

MSc in Computing for Financial Markets 2013
Student	Project title	Talk	Supervisor
(click to view title pages abstracts, and talks © the authors)
AO Appetiti	Accelerating Financial Calculations Using Haskell and the GPU	View	Simon Jones
J Chen	Java Desktop Application: Options Tool	View	Simon Jones
JC Gray	Insurance Policy Valuation Model Application	View	Mario Kolberg
S Zhao	Java Application for using Hedging Futures	View	Kevin Swingler

MSc in Computing for Business 2013
Student	Project title	Talk	Supervisor
(click to view title pages abstracts, and talks © the authors)
L Malajterova	The V Park Web Based CRM System	View	David Cairns

MSc in Information Technology 2012
Student	Project title	Talk	Supervisor
(click to view title pages abstracts, and talks © the authors)
WB Bardsley	Urban Aerial Food Zone Mapping System	View	David Cairns
JL Campbell	A Cross Platform Mobile Application For Clackmannanshire Council	View	Mario Kolberg
JA Graham	Redesign & Reconstruction of a HR Absence and Holiday Planner	View	Mario Kolberg
LER Hunter	UseMyStrengths Recruitment Website and Android App	View	Bruce Graham
PM Kelly	Love Alba: An Online Wedding Planner	View	Mario Kolberg
HMS Pereira	Safety Net An Android Application	View	Andrea Bracciali
K Reynolds	Vocational Interest Evaluator Application	View	Mario Kolberg

MSc in Advanced Computing 2012
Student	Project title	Talk	Supervisor
(click to view title pages abstracts, and talks © the authors)
LA Boraste	An Android application for Indian Farmers	View	Bruce Graham
JW Carruthers	RF Path Loss Application	View	Kevin Swingler
ML Chen	Online Accommodation Search - Website and Mobile app	View	Mario Kolberg
P Davies	Art Collection App	View	Simon Jones
K Elangovan	Real Time Fraud Detection in Financial Markets	View	Kevin Swingler
H Ji	Department Communicate Web Portal Implementation	View	Simon Jones
SMA Mustafa	Improving the Registration Scheme by Using JavaFX and web Techniques to Form a Fully Automatic System	View	Simon Jones

MSc in Computing for Financial Markets 2012
Student	Project title	Talk	Supervisor
(click to view title pages abstracts, and talks © the authors)
BAA Kohail	Stock Portfolio Manager Mobile Application	View	Leslie Smith
F Makris	Financial Income Application	View	David Cairns
K Noutsi	Applying NoSQL solutions for Stock Market Prediction using Neural Networks	View	Kevin Swingler

MSc in Information Technology 2011
Student	Project title	Talk	Supervisor
(click to view title pages abstracts, and talks © the authors)
Mr Omar Sami Baeissa	e-Safe Blood	View	Dr Mario Kolberg
Miss Yi-Wei Huang	Course Information and Feedback (CIF) System	View	Dr Simon Jones
Mr Kai Lan	Council Reporting System: A mobile phone council reporting application	View	Dr Mario Kolberg
Mr Ross Mills	Extending the MATCH Telecare System	View	Prof Ken Turner
Mr Mark Wilkie	Acquired Brain Injury Memory Exercises	View	Dr Mario Kolberg
Mr Jie Zhou	Real time Processing of Environmental Gamma Ray Spectrometry Data	View	Dr Simon Jones

MSc in Advanced Computing 2011
Student	Project title	Talk	Supervisor
(click to view title pages abstracts, and talks © the authors)
Mr Ashutosh Ashok Morwal	Java 3D Scene Engine	View	Dr Bruce Graham
Mr Haipeng Wang	Improving a Commercial Website - Trossachs.co.uk	View	Dr Mario Kolberg

MSc in Computing for Financial Markets 2011
Student	Project title	Talk	Supervisor
(click to view title pages abstracts, and talks © the authors)
Miss Xuanni Wang	Event Study Analysis of Stock Price and Stock Market Index Data	View	Dr Savi Maharaj
Mr Sami M'chala	Financial Android Application: Stock Predictor	View	Dr Mario Kolberg

MSc in Information Technology 2010
Student	Project title	Talk	Supervisor
(click to view title pages abstracts, and talks © the authors)
MH Almahmodi	Web-based database of questionnaire study with Allied Health Professionals	View	KM Swingler
NS Annan	Second Life on a mobile phone	View	Mario Kolberg
Y Gambo	Building and implementing a dynamic web site for an NGO	View	Simon Jones
FT O'Hanlon	Aquatic Bacteria Database	View	Andrea Bracciali
Y Zharkeyeva	Automated abstract submission, reviewing and conference programme building system	View	Simon Jones

MSc in Advanced Computing 2010
Student	Project title	Talk	Supervisor
(click to view title pages abstracts, and talks © the authors)
MMH Al Mojamed	Managing save data for PC video games	View	Simon Jones
AC Brockie	Developing a dynamic web site using Joomla	View	Mario Kolberg
AS Gogan	Synchronizing contacts between Android OS and Mac OSX	View	Marwan Fayed
A Kazhygerey	Brain Injury Rehabilitation	-	Mario Kolberg
M Kumar	Campus Wi-Fi Mobile Application	View	Prof EH Magill
S Mustafa	Mobile application for van drivers to maintain customer records while out from the office	View	Mario Kolberg
JP Reid	A Historical Audio and Video Guide book running on Android smartphone/tablet	View	Marwan Fayed

MSc in Computing for Financial Markets 2010
Student	Project title	Talk	Supervisor
(click to view title pages abstracts, and talks © the authors)
M Giuliani	Event study analysis of share price and stock market index data	View	Mario Kolberg
C Li	A Java application for investment analysis	View	Savi Maharaj
MFD Muguwe	A Comparative Analysis of Interest Rate Models for Actuarial Use	View	Andrea Bracciali
PL Nguyen	Event study of stock excess return using some factor models	View	Savi Maharaj
C Papadakis	Options Tool	View	Mario Kolberg
H Zhang	A Java application for international arbitrage	View	Savi Maharaj

Some examples of recent high quality dissertations (Note: although high quality content, some are longer than is comfortable) Dissertations indicated with ‡ report work carried out on placement, or in close collaboration, with a company
Student	Project title (click to download full dissertation as PDF © the authors)	Programme
G Diack	‡ Streamlining Statistical Disclosure Control Methods for Health Data Research Output	Maths and Data Science
M Redenti	‡ The social-housing allocation problem in Scotland: Design of a data-driven allocation model	Big Data
N Polack	‡ NHS Scotland Open Data: A data visualisation study about child health	Big Data
P Herrera Lopez Guerrero	InDaChain: Transparency across the Supply Chain Proof-of-Concept based on smart contracts	FinTech
G Kaur	Development of Business Intelligence Outlier and financial crime analytics system for predicting and managing fraud in financial payment services	FinTech
A Abbas	Object Localization on Large-Scale Egocentric Video Dataset	Big Data
R Cheruiyot	Time Series Prediction: Investigation of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Neural Network	Big Data
H Graham	Detecting toxicity in online discussion	Big Data
F Mensah	‡ Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Animal Health Data: A Scoping Project	Big Data
G Isdale	A Prediction of Youth Football Players’ Future Sporting Success Using Neural Networks and Machine Learning	Information Technology
V Szymanska	‡ Visualizing Learning Analytics Data at the University of Stirling	Information Technology
N Donnelly	An Automatic Detection of Rugby Union Player Motions Using Time Series Analysis	Big Data
E Watson	How contextual information affects the performance of predictive behavioural modelling in games	Big Data
T Davenport	‡ ECOS Project: Using Data Analysis to Improve Marketing Response at D.C. Thomson	Big Data
M Vardanega	Analysis of Sentiment Direction Based on Two Centuries of the Hansard Debate Archive	Big Data
D Jones	‡ A Warehouse Management System Integration Solution	Computing for Business
V Janous	‡ Extending YouManage's functionality of data export	Computing for Business
K Cheung	Financial Budgeting Mobile Application	Computing for Financial Markets
O Rios	Financial and Portfolio Manager Website	Computing for Financial Markets
L Davie	Development of an Application to Aid School Teachers in Planning an Off-Site Visit	Information Technology
R Taylor	The Scripted Debugging of Java Program via the Java Platform Debug Architecture	Information Technology
M Mustapha	‡ Implementing Speech-to-text Technologies for on-the-go CRM	Information Technology
R Hirst	Violin Tutor	Information Technology
M Hofhanzl	Construction of Employee Engagement Survey Component	Software Engineering
A Marmion	Navigating Across Piste Maps	Software Engineering