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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

PrizeWinners
 

Ocado Technology Group Project Prize

Awarded to an Outstanding Third Year Group Project for Software Engineering Excellence. 

 

 

Karim Selih
Adam Alilou
Shiv Bhatia
Konstantinos Koupepas
Szymon Kubica
Devin Thomas

 

Olav Beckmann Project Prize

Awarded annually for outstanding second-year undergraduate laboratory project work (individual or group).

 

Zak Stasa
Taichi Maeda
Matthew Tate
Jyry Hjelt

David Howarth Group Project Award

Awarded for excellence in group projects in third-year

Siddharth Sharma
Khemi Chew
Mihnea Ghitu
Dilshaan Grewal
Ioana Mihailescu
Alan Weng

 

Amadeus 2nd Year Group Project Award


Awarded for excellence in group projects in 2nd-year

Huzaifah Farooq
Gabriel de Olim Gaul
Krish Maha
Shruti Pradhan
PrizeWinners

 

Governors' Prize

For the annual award to the final year students with the best overall performance on the BEng Mathematics and Computer Science/MEng Mathematics and Computer Science.

Tony Liu
Filippo Selvatici
Duer Nicholas
Cobley Thomas

The Distinguished Final Year Project Prize

Awarded to a final year student for an outstanding final year individual project in the Department of Computing.

Stefan Radziuk
Ioana Mocanu

 

The Centenary Prize

Awarded annually to a final year undergraduate student for outstanding overall performance.

Alex Constantin-Gomez

 

Adrian Israel Memorial Prize

Awarded annually for excellence in the first year.

 

Yejun Kang

 

Joint Honours Mathematics and Computer Science First, Second, and Third Year Prizes

Awarded for excellence in the first, second and third year of the JMC.

Nicolas Schleicher
Martin Slomczykowski
Vlad Coroian

ARM Project Prize

For the annual award to an undergraduate student for an outstanding individual project in the area of computer systems

 Sudarshan Sreeram

The Aspect Capital Project Prize

Awarded for an outstanding final year undergraduate individual project.
Sponsored by Aspect Capital

Devam Savjani

Huawei Compiler Project Prize

Awarded to a final year student for an outstanding final year project on compilers.
Sponsored by Huawei

Andrei-Florin Sburlan

Solidatus Project Prize

Solidatus 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.)

 

Tom Bailey

Solidatus Second Year Award

Awarded to student who has demonstrated exceptional software engineering talent during their second year

Tang Boxuan

Splunk Prize

An excellent undergraduate individual project in the area of data science and machine learning
Sponsored by Splunk

Izabella Kacprzak

The Winton Capital Applied Undergraduate Project Computing Prize

Awarded to a final year undergraduate student for an outstanding individual project in applied computing.
Sponsored by Winton Capital

 

Adam Gould
James Ball

 

Marshall Wace Prize

Annual award for the an outstanding individual project by a final year undergraduate student in the Department of Computing

Zlatina Mileva

 

Minimax Labs Project Prize


Awarded for an excellent project showcasing algorithmic development and engineering, or scientific computation

 

Alex Usher
Andrew Elkadi
   

Corporate Partnership Programme Award

Departmental Award for Excellence in Project Work.

Jessica Lally
Nicholas Duer
Luqman Liaquat
Lukasz Jakubowski
Daniel Ababei
Jordan Hall
Lewis Ng
Rohan Gupta
Bianca-Mihaela Ganescu
Abhinand Shibu
Tiberiu Bucur
Lynna Xie

CGCA & Old Centralians' Trust: Student Activity Awards

Awarded to the students judged by the Senior Tutor & HoD to be most active in student affairs.

Naman Sharma
Zaki Amin

Henry Johnson Memorial Prize

For the annual award to the undergraduate or postgraduate student of the Department of Computing who has shown the greatest endeavour in pursuit of their studies.

Tabs Goldman

G-RESEARCH Prize 

For the annual award to up to ten non-final year students of each of the departments of Computing, Mathematics and Physics for academic excellence.

Yejun Kang
Justin Keung
Jerome Leow
Angus Leung
Abdelkareem Dabbas
Christopher Austin
Zak Stasa
Boxuan Tang
Jyry Hjelt
Prem Jagadeesh

Well-being Award

The 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. 

Harry Coppock
Mike Buzadji

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 StatusWinners

Distinguished projects

Projects that are outstanding in terms of technical achievement and presentation are awarded "Distinguished" status.

 

Brady, Alex, Cache-efficient C++ for High Frequency Trading

Zhang, Luming, Nondeterministic Variants of Pseudo randomness, and Learning Theory

Anton, Jonah, Audio Barlow Twins: Self-Supervised Audio Representation Learning

Espinosa Rastoll, Alba, Entity Relation Extraction within the Telecommunications Domain (Project in Collaboration with the European Space Agency)

Rahman, Nadim, STVSR-VAR: Space-Time Video Super Resolution to aid Virtual Assistant Referees

Surana, Shikha, Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Robot Locomotion

Braun, Cornelius, Black-Box Constrained Bayesian Optimisation With Tree Ensembles

Ho, Shing Hin, Inductive constructions in type-theoretic higher category theory

Hisarli, Tilman, Life-long reinforcement learning in robotics for non-stationary environments

Law, Alicia Jiayun, A Multilingual Chatbot for Self-Attachment Therapy (Algorithmic Human Development)

Al-Wahaibi, Salim, Reinforcement learning for web security

Birk, Jonas,  CandiR8: Real-Time Automated Video Interview Feedback in the Browser

Jenks, Edward, Digital IDs

Hannes, Anne-Sophie, Mitigating Security Concerns for Federated Learning

Margadji, Christos, Augmenting Additive Manufacturing with Machine Learning (collaboration with Mechanical Engineering Department)

Moran, Patrick, Geospatial machine learning on credit card transaction data and Covid-19 pandemic

Jungnickel, Markus, The WaterDAO - Clean Drinking Water, On Chain (eWater Services and the Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering)

Li, Hangyu, Capturing the Gap in Pre-trained Language Models

Buckworth, Titus Frederick Christian,  Learning safe specification degradations

Bai, Martin, Uncertainty-Aware Vision Transformer for Medical Image Segmentation

Yap, Shu-En,  A low-code deep learning platform for computer vision applications (Metalynx)

Student project videos

DANCES by Anindita Ghosh

Detecting and ANalysing Fast-moving Contorted Poses

DANCES by Anindita Ghosh

Detecting and ANalysing Fast-moving Contorted Poses

Early Detection of Eating Disorders using Social Media

Early Detection of Eating Disorders by - Blanca Tebar

Early Detection of Eating Disorders using Social Media

Enhancing Robust Aggregation in Federated Learning

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