Prizes are rewarded to students based on either their Academic Excellence or Project Specific work. The project prizes are awarded to the student, or students producing the best individual projects, as judged by a prize committee.
Categories include:
- Final year academic prizes
- Final year project prizes
- Non-final year academic prizes
- Group project prizes
- Distinguished projects
- Industry-sponsored projects
Undergraduate prize winners, distinguished projects and reports
Prizes are rewarded to students based on either their Academic Excellence or Project Specific work. The project prizes are awarded to the student, or students producing the best individual projects, as judged by a prize committee. Additional projects that are outstanding in terms of technical achievement and presentation are awarded "Distinguished" status. A description of each prize can be found below the prize's title and the award-winning student(s) will be named alongside their supervisor. In most cases, the relevant project reports can be downloaded electronically.
Undergraduate prize winners, distinguished projects and reports
| Prize | Winners |
|---|---|
Ocado Technology Group Project PrizeAwarded to an Outstanding Third Year Group Project for Software Engineering Excellence. |
Thom Hughes Sachin Wadhwani Rushi Ambati Ajay Mittal Aaryan Dharmadhikari Aaryan Purohit |
Olav Beckmann Project PrizeAwarded annually for outstanding second-year undergraduate laboratory project work (individual or group). |
Yejun Kang
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David Howarth Group Project AwardAwarded for excellence in group projects in third-year |
Siu Pei Ooi Patcharapol Tangchalermkul Ian Sung Huan Swen Ham Hengzhi Li Benjamin Teoh |
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Amadeus 2nd Year Group Project Award |
Abdelkareem Dabbas Angus Leung Malhar Rajpal Justin Keung |
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Undergraduate Academic Integrity Group Research Prize Winners |
Naashiya Ali Nurin Mohd Amrilshah James Ormsby Nadine Rei Ying Wang |
| Prize | Winners |
|---|---|
Governors' PrizesThe annual awards to the final year student(s) with the best overall performance. |
Martin Slomczykowski |
The Distinguished Final Year Project PrizeAwarded to a final year student for an outstanding final year individual project in the Department of Computing. |
Ines Wright |
The Centenary PrizeAwarded annually to a final year undergraduate student for outstanding overall performance. |
Yitang Chen |
Adrian Israel Memorial PrizeAwarded annually for excellence in the first year. |
Darius Aron |
Joint Honours Mathematics and Computer Science First, Second, and Third Year PrizesAwarded for excellence in the first, second and third year of the JMC. |
Freddie Nunn |
ARM Project PrizeAward to an undergraduate student for an outstanding individual project in the area of computer systems. |
Avaneesh Deleep |
The Aspect Capital Project PrizeAwarded for an outstanding final year undergraduate individual project. |
Flora Wu |
Huawei Compiler Project PrizeAwarded to a final year student for an outstanding final year project on compilers. |
Robert Weingart |
Solidatus Project PrizeSolidatus prize for a remarkable fourth-year project – For a student who has demonstrated a novel academic solution with an intuitive presentation (e.g. slick demo, visualisations, charts, or diagrams etc.) |
Filippo Varini |
Solidatus Second Year AwardAwarded to the 2nd year student who has demonstrated exceptional software engineering talent during their second year. |
Hamish Starling |
Splunk PrizeAn excellent undergraduate individual project in the area of data science and machine learning. |
Daniel Marks |
The Winton Capital Applied Undergraduate Project Computing PrizeAwarded to a final year undergraduate student for an outstanding individual project in applied computing. |
Hao Chen |
Marshall Wace Project PrizeAnnual award for the an outstanding individual project by a final year undergraduate student in the Department of Computing. |
Sreesh Maheshwar |
Minimax Labs Project PrizeAwarded for an excellent project showcasing algorithmic development and engineering, or scientific computation |
Nicolas Anguita Vlad Coroian |
Corporate Partnership Programme Prize for Technical InnovationAwarded for outstanding achievement by a computing student in their final year project |
Nicholas Fry Evie Wright |
Corporate Partnership Programme AwardDepartmental Award for Excellence in Project Work. |
Szymon Kubica |
CGCA & Old Centralians' Trust: Student Activity AwardsAwarded to the students judged by the Senior Tutor & HoD to be most active in student affairs. |
Shlok Shah |
G-Research PrizeAwarded to up to ten non-final year students in the Departments of Computing. |
Darius Aron |
Student Experience and Well-Being AwardThe well-being award is a new award set by the Computing Department to recognise the excellent contribution to the improvement and promotion of the well-being of our student community. |
Pratyaksh Sharma |
Distinguished projects
Projects that are outstanding in terms of technical achievement and presentation are awarded "Distinguished" status.
Anguita, Nicolas | Learning Dynamics of Linear Neural Networks
Buxton, Robbie | Volumetric Screen Teleoperation User Study
Chakraborty, Dyuti | Modelling Neurodegeneration Investigating Brain Dynamics and Aging Effects on a Whole-Brain Model
Chen, Hao | Parallel Prompt Decoding A Cost-Effective and Memory-Efficient Approach for Accelerating LLM Inference
Coroian, Vlad | Scaling up synergy estimators
Cupello, Diego | IL2Coq: Automatic Translation of WebAssembly Specification To Coq
Deleep, Avaneesh | Augmenting Dynamic Branch Predictors with Static Transformer Guided Clustering
Fry, Nicholas | 3D Gaussian Splatting on a Graph Processor
Garcia Velasco Newell, Oscar | Mathematical Models for Opinion Dynamics
Ghitu, Mihnea | Robustness-Privacy Trade-off in Bayesian Neural Networks
Jacob, Abdul Rahman | Neuro-Argumentative Machine Learning with Images
Jiang, Rocco | parsley-garnish A linter for the Parsley parser combinator library
Kubica, Szymon | Using eBPF for Microcontroller Compartmentalization
Loveman, Charles | A C Memory Model for use with Concolic Testing
Mahatme, Ishita | Deep Learning Pipeline for Automated Diagnosis of Fetal Congenital Cardiac Anoma
Maheshwar, Sreesh | [unavailable] Incremental SMT solving for symbolic execution
Marks, Daniel | [unavailable] Naturally Self-Certified Gaussian Process Approximations via Generalised Bayesian Pick-to-Learn
Meng, Max | Revisiting Causality of Violations to LTL Formulae in Counterexamples
Naarayan, Aadhithya | Towards Robust and Stable Deep Learning Algorithms for Forward Backward Stochast
Neave, Matt | Verlixir Verification of Message-Passing Systems
Nguyen, Daniel | Daniel Nhuyen Project
Singh, Siddhant | LexEval A Scalable LLM Evaluation Framework
Spiru, Andrei | Robustness of 3D Object Detection in Adverse Weather Conditions
Thomas, Devin | [unavailable] Explainable Reinforcement Learning for F1 Race Strategy
Varini, Filippo | [unavailable] Automatic Classification and Behaviour Analysis of Sharks using Deep Learning
Weingart, Robert | Total Type Classes Improving the ergonomics of type-level programming in Haskell
Wright, Evie | A Low-Overhead Approach to Dynamic Frequency Scaling for GPUs Using Multi-Dimens
Wright, Ines | [Unavailable] Compositional Reasoning about Concurrent Programs TaDA 2.0
Wu, Flora | [unavailable] Decentralized Federated Learning: Beyond Linear Aggregation and Centralized Paradigm
Xiao, Scarlet | Generative AI for predicting the multimodal brain connectivity evolution over time
Zhao, Jian | Quantum Belief Propagation
Postgraduate prize winners, distinguished projects and reports
The project prizes are awarded to the student, or students producing the best individual projects, as judged by a prize committee. Additional projects that are outstanding in terms of technical achievement and presentation are awarded "Distinguished" status. The prize-winning and distinguished projects are listed below. In most cases, the reports can be downloaded electronically.
Postgraduate prize winners
| Project Status | Winners |
|---|---|
Distinguished projectsProjects that are outstanding in terms of technical achievement and presentation are awarded "Distinguished" status. |
Pearce, Jack, Micro-Adaptive Bulk Processing Using Hardware-Assisted Runtime Profiling Hernandez Caralt, Mireia, Towards Real-Time ICD Coding Predictive Temporal Modelling of Electronic Health Blake, Acer, Deep Learning for Image-Based Profiling in Drug Discovery Ji, Jia, [Imperial-X] Multigraph integration learning for population-driven brain mapping and diagnosis Yang, Yolanda, End to End against Machine learning models Dobre, Rares, Migrating a scientific computing environment to Java Stumpf, Lauren, Neurodegenerative disease progression monitoring from a phone call (transformer models of slurred speech) Ali, Hana, Towards a Standardized Whole Brain Model Ghilea, Ramona, Replica-based Federated Learning using Limited Data Perkins, Ryan, Bootstrapping Stable Diffusion for Audio Synthesis Lucuta, Max, Semi-static conditions in low-latency C++ for high-frequency trading Guo, Congyun, Project with industry (Netcraft) - Deep Natural Language Processing Model for Phishing Detection Barbazo, Valentin, A practical method to formally analyse the security properties of cloud FPGAs Li, Zhuoyuan, Algorithms for Markov chain analysis (NumPy, Python) Mecattaf, Matteo, Collaborative Reinforcement Learning for rapid adaptation in robotics Wolinska, Marta, Evolutionary Algorithms for the Prediction of Crystal Structures of Solid-State Materials Mao, Runjun, Collaborative Reinforcement Learning for rapid adaptation in robotics Gorzynski, Amber, Testing compilers via control flow fleshing Nath, Pritthijit, Diffusion models for extreme rainfall due to climate change Kyriacou, Demetris, From Niche to Mass Adoption: Taking Native Staking Mainstream Pitoskas, Ioannis, Self-supervised learning: Can you make our robot understand what plastic looks like without any labelled images? (RecycleEye) Rebello, Aaman, Leveraging Factored Action Spaces for Off-Policy Evaluation Kelso, Samuel, Acoustic Environment Characterisation for Augmented Reality (AR) using Machine Learning Hernandez Gelado, Sofia, Exploring Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Enhanced Microdroplet Detection and Segmentation in Microfluidic Imaging Tang, Wei, Logical English for Legal Applications Leigh, Jennifer, Explainable Optimal Routing for Workforce Management |
| Prize | Winners |
|---|---|
The Corporate Partnership Programme MSc Group Project PrizeFor annual award for excellence in the Group Project on the MSc Computing &MSc AI Programmes |
Marta Wolinska Randy Brown Ole Jorgensen Danila Kurganov Ugo Okoroafor Max Lucuta Alexander Arzt David Bull Patrick Gallagher Jack Pearce Albert Ugwudike |
The Corporate Partnership Programme Awards for Academic ExcellenceAwarded for academic excellence, to students with an overall distinction andthe highest exam marks. |
Mireia Hernandez Caralt Michalis Pistos Jack Pearce |
The Corporate Partnership Programme Individual Project Prize in Computing ScienceFor annual award for excellence in the Individual Project on the MSc Computing Science,MSc Artificial Intelligence and MSc Computing (Software Engineering) Programmes |
Yolanda Yang Jia Ji Acer Blake Mireia Hernandez Caralt |
Splunk Prize for Excellence in MSc Individual ProjectAn excellent MSc individual project in the area of data science and machine learning |
Christopher Adnel |
Winton Capital Applied Computing MSc PrizeFor annual award to an MSc student for an outstanding individual project in applied computing |
Jack Pearce Rares Dobre |
The Winton Capital Prize for the Best MSc Advanced Computing StudentAwarded to the MSc Advanced Computing student with an overall distinction and highest exam averages |
Yuncheng Lu |
Distinguished projects
Student project videos
DANCES by Anindita Ghosh
Detecting and ANalysing Fast-moving Contorted Poses
Early Detection of Eating Disorders by - Blanca Tebar
Early Detection of Eating Disorders using Social Media
Enhancing Robust Aggregation by Samuel Trew
Enhancing Robust Aggregation in Federated Learning
More videos are available to watch on the Department of Computing's YouTube channel