Graduation Ceremony

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

2023 - 2024 Group Prizes
Prize Winners
 

Ocado Technology Group Project Prize

Awarded 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 Prize

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

Yejun Kang
Pedro Sa Fontes
Abdelkareem Dabbas
Angus Leung
Trung Nguyen

 

David Howarth Group Project Award

Awarded for excellence in group projects in third-year

Siu Pei Ooi
Patcharapol Tangchalermkul
Ian Sung
Huan Swen Ham
Hengzhi Li
Benjamin Teoh

 

Amadeus 2nd Year Group Project Award
Awarded for excellence in group projects in 2nd-year

Abdelkareem Dabbas
Angus Leung
Malhar Rajpal
Justin Keung

Undergraduate Academic Integrity Group Research Prize Winners
For their research: "How contract cheating companies cash in on student’s motivations to cheat"
Sponsored by TurnitIn

Naashiya Ali     
Nurin Mohd Amrilshah 
James Ormsby 
Nadine Rei Ying Wang
2023 - 2024 Individual Prizes
Prize Winners

Governors' Prizes

The annual awards to the final year student(s) with the best overall performance.

Martin Slomczykowski
Jakub Michalski
Vlad Coroian
Hao Chen

The Distinguished Final Year Project Prize

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

Ines Wright

The Centenary Prize

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

Yitang Chen

Adrian Israel Memorial Prize

Awarded annually for excellence in the first year.

Darius Aron

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.

Freddie Nunn
Heyang Ong
Ivo Penchev Malinowski

ARM Project Prize

Award to an undergraduate student for an outstanding individual project in the area of computer systems.
Sponsored by Arm

Avaneesh Deleep

The Aspect Capital Project Prize

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

Flora Wu

Huawei Compiler Project Prize

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

Robert Weingart

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.)

Filippo Varini

Solidatus Second Year Award

Awarded to the 2nd year student who has demonstrated exceptional software engineering talent during their second year.
Sponsored by Solidatus

Hamish Starling

Splunk Prize

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

Daniel Marks

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

 

Hao Chen
Devin Thomas

Marshall Wace Project Prize

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

Sreesh Maheshwar

Minimax Labs Project Prize

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

Nicolas Anguita
Vlad Coroian

Corporate Partnership Programme Prize for Technical Innovation

Awarded for outstanding achievement by a computing student in their final year project

Nicholas Fry
Evie  Wright

Corporate Partnership Programme Award

Departmental Award for Excellence in Project Work.

Szymon Kubica
Rocco Jiang
Oscar Garcia Velaco Newell
Ishita Mahatme
Diego  Cupello
Charles  Loveman
Abdul Rahman Jacob
Aadhithya  Naarayan
Max Meng
Yitang Chen

CGCA & Old Centralians' Trust: Student Activity Awards

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

Shlok Shah
Jack Finnis

G-Research Prize 

Awarded to up to ten non-final year students in the Departments of Computing.

Darius Aron
Matthew Alex
Donald Chui
Freddie Nunn
Giulio Bassanino
Nicolas Schleicher
Hamish Starling
Euan Turner
Queena Wong
Heyang Ong

Student Experience and 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. 

Pratyaksh Sharma
Teo Hughes

2023- 2024 Distinguished UG projects

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

2023- 2024 Distinguished PG projects

Distinguished projects

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

Al-ani, Fatima  |  [MSc AI Internship] PhycoWorks

Ben Abdelbaki, Hachem  |  Implementing and Training Group Equivariant Neural
Networks on Symmetric Data

Durand, Jean  |  Causal Bayesian Optimization with Unknown Causal Graphs

Ferreira Pinto, Helena  |  [MSc AI Internship] Amazon

Goodbrand, Euan |   Learning From Noisy Network Intrusion Detection Systems Data

Hilton, George  |  A Generalised Approach to Qudit Reduction using Symmetries of Z_d

Jiang, Freddy  |  Cardiac Shape Analysis with Nouveau Variational Autoencoder

Mancini, Kevin  |  DeltaGNN: Graph Neural Network with Information Flow Control and Interaction-Decoupling Module

McClusky, Ben |   Dynamic Graph Communication for Decentralised Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Mitsides, Konstantinos  |  Combining Deep Reinforcement Learning and Quality-Diversity Algorithms

Pollock, Joseph  |  Implications of data-dependent privacy for differentially private ML model training (DP-SGD)

Ragkousis, Angelos  |  Controlling Information Leakage in Concept Bottleneck Models with Trees

Ramesh, Anjali |   What's [MASK]? Exploring techniques for Conversational Question-Answering

Rosen, Oliver Calman  |  Quality-Diversity for Exploration and Robust Policy Generation in 3D Platformer Environments (Industrial Collaboration with Sony Entertainment)

Sheridan-Methven, Oliver  |  Multilevel Monte Carlo for Stochastic Differential Equations

Singh, Pragya |   [Imperial-X] Generative GNNs for Graph Super-resolution

Sjostedt, Opale  | Adding and Optimising Resource Algebras for a Parametric CSE

Teh, Ming Hwang | Novel Framework for Evolutionary Neural Symbolic Autonomous Adversarial Agents (ENSA3) for Cybersecurity Simulation

Wong, Matthew  |  Intensive testing of the WebGPU API via smart call sequence
generation

Wong, Sunny   | Normalising flow and diffusion models on lattice field theory

Xiang, Minqi    [MSc AI Internship] Tencent Games Lightspeed Studios

2023 - 2024 MSc Prizes

The Corporate Partnership Programme MSc Group Project Prize
For annual award for excellence in the Group Project on the MSc AI Programme

Rada Djoneva; Helena Ferreira Pinto; Dilay Ercelik; Megan Howard; Alejandro Ayuso Garcia; Avanija Menon

The Corporate Partnership Programme Awards for Academic Excellence
Awarded for academic excellence, to students with an overall distinction and
the highest exam marks.

Helena Ferreira Pinto; Mikolaj Deja; Matthew Wong 

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

Oliver Sheridan-Methven; Pragya Singh; Opale Sjostedt; Euan Goodbrand 

Splunk Prize for Excellence in MSc Individual Project
An excellent MSc individual project in the area of data science and machine learning

Kevin Mancini 

Winton Capital Applied Computing MSc Prize
For annual award to an MSc student for an outstanding individual project in applied computing

Ming Hwang Teh; Freddy Jiang

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

Maxime Jacovella

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