Written 2025-05-12
Today, I graduated from Mount Allison University. I was awarded a Bachelor of Science with first-class honours in computer science and a minor in mathematics, cum laude. The title of my honours thesis is Detecting and Resolving Feature Interactions in Cyber-Physical Systems Using Formal Methods, and that work is set to be presented at, and published in the proceedings of, the 19th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation in Tallinn, Estonia this July (which I'll be at, and will blog about!).
I'm extremely grateful to have gone to Mount A, and to all of the faculty and staff who gave me my education, especially my honours supervisor, Dr. Laurie Ricker. Going to a small university allowed me to work in research and teaching (sometimes at the same time), which often isn't as easy for undergraduates at larger institutions.
Although long, I enjoyed the convocation ceremony and especially enjoyed the fact that the conferring of degrees in done in Latin! The diplomas themselves are also in Latin, and are printed manually in a traditional printing press by Thaddeus Holownia, a professor in the faculty of fine arts. We're one of the last universities in the country that print them this way!
Onwards and upwards!