Postgraduate archive

Distinguished projects

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

Dur, Tolga, MSc Computing, Parallel Gaussian Processes for Optimal Sensor Placement‌ (PDF)

Mack, Julian, MSc Computing (Machine Learning), Attention-based Convolutional Autoencoders for 3D-Variational Data Assimilation (PDF)

Soerensen, Emil, MSc Computing, AIGVA AI Generated Video Annotation (PDF)

Roques, Olivier, MSc Computing (Security and Reliability), Detecting Malware in TLS Traffic (PDF)

Guillard, Benoit, MSc Advanced Computing, Optimising convolutional neural networks for super fast inference on focal-plane (PDF)

Zheng, Jiali, MSc Computing, Geometric Deep Learning with 3D Facial Motion (PDF)

Henriksen, Patrick, MSc Computing (AI), Efficient Neural Network Verification via Adaptive Refinement (PDF)

Sowinska, Karolina, MSc Computing, Multi-View Learning Approaches for Stock Return Prediction with Tweets‌ (PDF)‌

Makrigiorgos, Alex, MSc Computing (AI), Improving Autonomous Driving Agents using Bio-Inspired Visual Attention (PDF)‌‌

Kaddour, Jean, MSc Advanced Computing, PATA Probabilistic Active Task Acquisition (PDF)‌‌

Wu, Zixiu, MSc Advanced Computing, Probing the Role of Video Context in Multimodal Machine Translation with Source  (PDF)‌‌‌‌

Barbaroux, Hugo, MSc Computing (Machine Learning), Spherical CNN for Imaging on Alzheimer’s Disease (PDF)‌‌‌

Laignelet, Alexis, MSc Computing (Machine Learning), Deep Learning of High-dimensional Partial Differential Equations (PDF)‌‌‌‌

Lim, Clavance, MSc Computing, An Evaluation of Machine Learning Approaches to Natural Language Processing for (PDF)‌‌‌‌‌

Lewis, Robert, MSc Computing, Deep collaborative filtering models with audiovisual content-aware algorithms (PDF)‌‌‌‌‌‌

Tobis, Nicolas, MSc Computing, Federated Machine Learning A Distributed Approach to Pain Expression Recognition (PDF)

MSc Computing/MSc Specialism Group project prize to be awarded to the MSc Computing group 

• Fisch, Martin 
• Messner, Joern
• Tajnafoi, Gabor 
• Todd, Kevin 
• Westmore, Jack

Corporate Partnership Programme Commendation for Group Project to be awarded to the MSc Computing group 

Academic Excellence Awards sponsored by The Department of Computing Corporate Partnership Programme (CPP). Students with Distinction with top exam averages in their cohort

MSc Computing Specialisms:
• Gao, Kang, M.Sc in Computing (Machine Learning)
• Christodoulou, Petros, M.Sc in Computing (Machine Learning)
• Chaikunsaeng, Sirapoab, M.Sc in Computing (Visual Computing and Robotics)

MSc Computing:
• Fisch, Martin

The Winton Capital Prize for the Best MSc Advanced Computing Student
• Guillard, Benoit

Blockchain.com Postgraduate Project Prize: For annual award to the best MSc Blockchain/Cryptocurrency-related project

Winton Capital Applied Computing MSc Prizes

MSc Advanced Computing:

• Guillard, Benoit

MSc Computing:

• Soerensen, Emil

One Corporate Partnership Programme Individual Project Prize

 MSc Computing Specialisms:

•  Roques, Olivier 

Distinguished projects

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

Neophytos Polydorou, An interactive VR platform with emotion recognition for self-attachment intervention

Locatelli, Davide, Measuring Compositional Generalization in Modular Neural Networks

Zakharov, Alexey, Agents based on Active Inference in the Animal-AI Environment

Metz, Charles, Automation and intelligent optimisation in high performance sailing boats

Savu, Ioan-Daniel, Byzantic Privacy-Preserving Collateral Reduction for DeFi Protocols

Cahn, Daniel, DeepHelp Understanding users of a crisis text messaging service using ML

Benjamin, Patrick, Learning policies for specification updates at runtime

Prat Balasch, Alvaro, Model-Based Meta-Reinforcement Learning in Robotics

Gaskell, Alexander, On the Summarization and Evaluation of Long Documents

Pearce-Crump, Edward, Quantum Computing and the Hidden Subgroup Problem

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The Corporate Partnership Programme MSc Group Project Prize

For annual award for excellence in the Group Project on the MSc Computing Science and MSc Computing (Software Engineering) programmes:

• Chainani, Roshan
• Clark, Jonathan
• Davies, Adam
• Gallagher, Katie
• Jennings, Venetia
• Yim, Tsun Ho Christopher

For annual award for excellence in the Group Project on the MSc Artificial Intelligence programme:

• Antony, Roopa D
• Beer, Anna
• Cabrera, Yaniel
• Chew, Yihang
• Daxbacher, Patricia
• Falezan, Thomas
• Hlédiková, Anna
• Hu, Zepeng
• Jotautaite, Monika
• Mousa, Marwan
• Sturluson, Stefan
• Yeo, Hudson

The Corporate Partnership Programme MSc Individual Project Prize

For annual award for excellence in the Individual Project on the MSc Computing Science and MSc Computing (Software Engineering) programmes:

• Bain, Wulfie
• Clive, Jordan
• Daxbacher, Patricia
• Lecoeur, Bastien

The Corporate Partnership Programme Awards for Academic Excellence

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

• Bain, Wulfie
• Naik, Sneha
• Salter, Jamie

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.

Cauchetier, Arthur

Winton Capital Applied Computing MSc Prize

For the annual award to an MSc student for an outstanding individual project in applied computing:

• Jennings, Venetia
• Naik, Sneha

Splunk Prize for Excellence in MSc Individual Project

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

Behnke, Hanna

Distinguished projects

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

Behnke, Hanna, Bias Mitigation with Auxiliary Tasks for Machine Translation Quality Estimation

Daxbacher, Patricia, Learning and reasoning with spacio-temporal properties for understanding scene sequences

Naik, Sneha, Deep-learning for stratifying fibrosis on histopathological images of the liver

Tučkus, Nikodemas, Breathe in Breathe out: Deep Learning and Data Assimilation for a Big Data problem

Magnetti, Cesare, Ultrasound image synthesis from unpaired CT data using generative deep learning models

Clive, Jordan, Pre-training Contextual Language Decoders

Bouas, Nikolaos, Multi Reinforcement Learning Agents for Landmark Detection in Cardiac MRI

Bain, Wulfie, Curriculum Learning and Alzheimer’s Disease Classification with Graph Neural Networks

Jiang, Jay, On the comparison of explainable machine learning methods with a focus on counterfactual explanations

Lecoeur, Bastien, GLSLsmith: a Random Generator of OpenGL shader programs

Alazraki, Lisa, Algorithmic Human Development: Personifying a virtual psychotherapist

Chahal, Jaskirat, Mobile Mandi - Agricultural Market Intelligence for India

Zhang, Chenyu, Runtime code generation for small matrix multiplies - vector code generation for ARM and RISCV

Cunningham, Jake, Towards a Taxonomy of Inducing Variables for Sparse Gaussian Processes

Kwon, John, CO-STAR - Conceptualisation of Stereotypes for Analysis and Reasoning

Dudziak, Maciej, Convolutional autoencoder-based image compression in the image sensor

Jennings, Venetia, Action Recognition in Tennis (ShotPage)

Nachkov, Asen, Distributional RL and curiosity-driven exploration using a fully Bayesian approach

Wang, Zhi, Tracking Cryptoasset Indices (CoinShares and the Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering)

Ouzineb, Sohaïb, Dynamic Network Segmentation for Cyber-Defence

Rogers, Oliver, Estimate Scope 3 Emissions using a Machine Learning Model (collaboration with Refinitiv)

Stolyarov, Ilya, Machine learning-based model predictive control for chemical reactor systems

Fan, Bowen, Reinforcement learning for optimal control of chemical processes

Wu, Tien-Chun, From Generic to Specific: Using Natural Language Models to Extract Fields in Machine-Generated Data (Splunk)

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)