This year's PhD Google Poster & Demo Competition was a great success, and was attended by both PhD students and those interested in their research.

On Wednesday 15th March 2017 the Department of Computing hosted the annual Google Poster & Demo Competition. The competition was open to all Department of Computing PhD students, who were encouraged to submit a poster demonstrating their research.

Ho Ng with one of the judges

The competition itself was preceded by a talk given by a Google speaker on “Applied Research at Google”. There were also 4-5 Google engineers attending the event who helped judge the entries for the completion. As in previous years, there were three prizes on offer.

Numerous PhD students attended to showcase their research and they all did an impeccable job. For a list of the winners, runners up and their supervisors please see below:

Best Poster by a 1st year PhD student

• First place prize went to Stelios Moschoglou (supervised by Stefanos Zafierou)
• Joint runners up were Benjamin Hou (supervisor Bernhard Kainz and Ho-Cheung Ng (supervisor Wayne Luk)
• Also highly commended was Mohamed Abdelaziz (supervised by Guang Zhong Yang)

Best Poster by a 2nd year PhD student

• First place went to Jeawon Kim (supervisor by Abhijeet Ghosh)
• Runner up was Joshua Lind (supervisor by Peter Pietzuch)

Best Poster by a 3rd and 4th year PhD student

• First place went to Kyriacos Nikiforou (supervisor by Murray Shanahan)
• Runner up was Gauthier Gras (supervisor by Guang Zhong Yang)

Krysia Broda and Eva Graversen