Prizes

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
2022 - 2023 Group Prizes
Prize | Winners |
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Ocado Technology Group Project PrizeAwarded to an Outstanding Third Year Group Project for Software Engineering Excellence. |
Karim Selih |
Olav Beckmann Project PrizeAwarded annually for outstanding second-year undergraduate laboratory project work (individual or group). |
Zak Stasa |
David Howarth Group Project AwardAwarded 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
|
Huzaifah Farooq Gabriel de Olim Gaul Krish Maha Shruti Pradhan |
2022 - 2023 Individual Prizes
Prize | Winners |
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Governors' PrizeFor 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 |
The Distinguished Final Year Project PrizeAwarded to a final year student for an outstanding final year individual project in the Department of Computing. |
Stefan Radziuk |
The Centenary PrizeAwarded annually to a final year undergraduate student for outstanding overall performance. |
Alex Constantin-Gomez |
Adrian Israel Memorial PrizeAwarded annually for excellence in the first year. |
Yejun Kang |
Joint Honours Mathematics and Computer Science First, Second, and Third Year PrizesAwarded for excellence in the first, second and third year of the JMC. |
Nicolas Schleicher |
ARM Project PrizeFor the annual award to an undergraduate student for an outstanding individual project in the area of computer systems |
Sudarshan Sreeram |
The Aspect Capital Project PrizeAwarded for an outstanding final year undergraduate individual project. |
Devam Savjani |
Huawei Compiler Project PrizeAwarded to a final year student for an outstanding final year project on compilers. |
Andrei-Florin Sburlan |
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.) |
Tom Bailey |
Solidatus Second Year AwardAwarded to student who has demonstrated exceptional software engineering talent during their second year |
Tang Boxuan |
Splunk PrizeAn excellent undergraduate individual project in the area of data science and machine learning |
Izabella Kacprzak |
The Winton Capital Applied Undergraduate Project Computing PrizeAwarded to a final year undergraduate student for an outstanding individual project in applied computing. |
Adam Gould |
Marshall Wace PrizeAnnual award for the an outstanding individual project by a final year undergraduate student in the Department of Computing |
Zlatina Mileva |
Minimax Labs Project Prize
|
Alex Usher Andrew Elkadi |
Corporate Partnership Programme AwardDepartmental Award for Excellence in Project Work. |
Jessica Lally |
CGCA & Old Centralians' Trust: Student Activity AwardsAwarded to the students judged by the Senior Tutor & HoD to be most active in student affairs. |
Naman Sharma |
Henry Johnson Memorial PrizeFor 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 PrizeFor 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 |
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. |
Harry Coppock |
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
2021-22
Project Status | Winners |
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Distinguished projectsProjects 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 |
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