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

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

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

Guo, Congyun, Project with industry (Netcraft) - Deep Natural Language Processing Model for Phishing Detection

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, From Niche to Mass Adoption: Taking Native Staking Mainstream

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