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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

2022 - 2023 Group Prizes

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

2022 - 2023 Individual Prizes

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
Nicholas Duer 
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

2022- 2023 Distinguished UG projects

 

Project StatusWinners

Distinguished projects

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

 

Radziuk, Stefan, A Sound and Progressful WebAssembly Interpreter for a Future-Proof Mechanisation

Mocanu, Ioana, Exploring the Relative Expressivity of Grammars: An Analysis through Functors, Applicatives, Arrows, and Monads

Gould, Adam, Arguing with physical activity data from a real-world wearable clinical trial with patients with a primary brain tumour

Mileva, Zlatina, A Unifying Framework for Learning Argumentation Semantics

Usher, Alex, fuzz-d Random Program Generation for Testing Dafny

Dickie, Charles, Aggregating Bipolar Opinions by Arguing

Ball, James, Generating Histopathology Images With Segmentation Masks, and Gigapixel Images With Ultra-Resolution Cascaded Diffusion Models

Elkadi, Andrew, Quantum Approximate Optimisation for Boolean Satisfiability

Bailey, Tom, Covrig 2.0: How does software evolve?

Sreeram, Sudarshan, Accelerating on-device medical imaging using compressed deep learning models

Savjani, Devam, An Empirical Analysis of Mean Reversion Strategies for Pairs Trading in Decentralised Exchanges

Kacprzak, Izabella, Counterfactual data augmentation for deep learning predictive models

Lally, Jessica, Explainable Reinforcement Learning Through Causality

Xie, Lynna, Exploration of New Formulations in Quantum Computer Vision

Duer, Nicholas, Tiling in time - improving data locality in computational science applications, in 4D

Sburlan, Andrei-Florin, Discovering Predictive Patterns A Study of Contextual Factors for Next Generation Branch Predictors

Liaquat, Luqman, Automated Diagnostics of Vulnerabilities in Browser-Based Security Mechanisms

Jakubowski, Lukasz, In Search of the Heart's Map: Deep Learning for Anatomical Structure Contouring in Fetal Cardiac Analysis

Ababei, Daniel, Cybersecurity Attack Graph Representation and Generation

Hall, Jordan, A staged selective parser combinator library for the Rust programming language

Ng, Lewis, Predicting depression recovery with brain scan data during psychedelic therapy

Gupta, Rohan, An Intelligent And Interactive Tutoring System For Sign Language

Ganescu, Bianca-Mihaela, snarkGPT: Zero-Knowledge Proofs for the Inference Phase of Transformers

Christofides Paton, Peter, Investigating numerical methods in score-based models

Shibu, Abhinand, Ginkgo & Questionary - Adaptive Educational Systems

Bucur, Tiberiu, Gillian Shared Memory Concurrency

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

2022- 2023 Distinguished PG projects

 

Project Status Winners

Distinguished projects

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

 


Adnel, Christopher, [Imperial-X] Learning graph neural networks using limited resources

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 Records

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: better than branch prediction hints

Guo, Congyun, Project with industry (Netcraft) - Deep NLP to detect Phishing emails and determine the target

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, Projects related to cryptocurrency, DeFi, NFTs or the Metaverse (Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering)

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

2022 - 2023 MSc Prizes

PrizeWinners

The Corporate Partnership Programme MSc Group Project Prize

For 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 Excellence

Awarded for academic excellence, to students with an overall distinction and
the highest exam marks.

Mireia Hernandez Caralt
Michalis Pistos
Jack Pearce

The Corporate Partnership Programme Individual Project Prize in Computing Science

For 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 Project

An excellent MSc individual project in the area of data science and machine learning

Christopher Adnel

Winton Capital Applied Computing MSc Prize

For 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 Student

Awarded to the MSc Advanced Computing student with an overall distinction and highest exam averages

Yuncheng Lu

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