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
Prizes are awarded 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
Distinguished projects
Projects that are outstanding in terms of technical achievement and presentation are awarded "Distinguished" status.
Abrar Rashid | KidneyGrader: An Interpretable Deep Learning Pipeline for Automated Kidney Transplant Grading
Benjamin Teoh | OCEAN: Object-Centric Explananda via Agent Negotiation
Daniel Wilcox | Tracking the Buzz: Honey Bee Computer Vision Tracking
Hashir Majeed | Ontological Infrastructure Design for Benchmarking Federated LLM Tools in British Schools
Kristina Zimina | VeriRef: Using AI to Detect Misinformation (DeepSearchLabs)
Lucas Graeff Buhl-Nielsen | Rendering Network Namespaces Obsolete Using eBPF
Max Stupple | Semantics of Atomic Operations for Remote Direct Memory Access
Mithun Sri | The Viral RNA Interaction and Structure Explorer (vRISE)
Nathaniel Burke | Local Rewrite Rules in Dependent Type Theory
Pratyaksh Sharma | Analyzing the computational role of complex representations in RNNs
Rickie Ma | Enhancing robustness of a Generative Intrusion Detection System by fine-tuning LLM
Shiva Tamil Kumaran | From State to Solver: Sound SMT Encodings for Compositional Symbolic Execution
Siu Pei Ooi | Ensemble Approaches to Improve Data Poisoning Guarantees
Sofia Garcia De Blas Garcia-Alcaide | An Automata-Theoretic Approach for the Verification of Strategic Abilities in Multi-Agent Systems
| Prize | Winners |
|---|---|
Ocado Technology Group Project PrizeAwarded to an Outstanding Third Year Group Project for Software Engineering Excellence. |
Julianne Leung Isaac Lee Haren Samarasinghe Gursukh Sembi Ryan Song Benjamin Wong |
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Stefan Van Biljon Matthew Alex Conan Li |
David Howarth Group Project AwardAwarded for excellence in group projects in third-year |
Euan Turner Trung Bao Nguyen Pedro Sa Fontes Tom Smail James Watling Tsz Shing Yu |
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Amadeus 2nd Year Group Project Award Awarded for excellence in group projects in 2nd-year |
Rohan Mathew Jorge Sobrino Fernandez-Miranda Pranay Padavala Thomas Johnson |
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Adam Newman Emma Le Clech Ray Lei Tony Alocious |
| Prize | Winner(s) |
|---|---|
Governors' PrizesThe annual awards to the final year student(s) with the best overall performance. |
Christopher Austin |
The Centenary PrizeAwarded annually to a final year undergraduate student for outstanding overall performance. |
Angus Leung |
Adrian Israel Memorial PrizeAwarded annually for excellence in the first year. |
Mykyta Osovskyi |
Joint Honours Mathematics and Computer Science PrizeAwarded for excellence in the first, second and third year of the JMC. |
Tianyu Qi Freddie Nunn Harvey Densem |
ARM Project PrizeAward to an undergraduate student for an outstanding individual project in the area of computer systems. |
Max Stupple |
The HSBC Individual Project PrizeAwarded for an outstanding final year undergraduate individual project. |
Kristina Zimina |
Huawei Project PrizeAwarded to a final year student for an outstanding final year project. |
Lucas Graeff Buhl-Nielsen |
Solidatus Project PrizeSolidatus prize for a remarkable fourth-year project – For a student who has demonstrated a novel academic solution with an intuitive presentation. |
Abrar Rashid |
Solidatus Second Year AwardAwarded to the 2nd year student who has demonstrated exceptional software engineering talent during their second year. |
Angad Kalra |
The Distinguished Final Year Project PrizeAwarded to a final year student for an outstanding final year individual project in the Department of Computing. |
Nathaniel Burke |
The Winton Capital Applied Undergraduate Project Computing PrizeAwarded to a final year undergraduate student for an outstanding individual project in applied computing. |
Pratyaksh Sharma Mithun Sri |
Marshall Wace Project PrizeAnnual award for the an outstanding individual project by a final year undergraduate student in the Department of Computing. |
Siu Pei Ooi |
Minimax Labs Project PrizeAwarded for an excellent project showcasing algorithmic development and engineering, or scientific computation |
Sofia Garcia De Blas Garcia-Alcaide Daniel Wilcox |
The QuantCo Distinguished Project Award Awarded for an Outstanding Final Year Project by a Student on the Joint Maths-Computing Degree Programme |
Hashir Majeed |
Corporate Partnership Programme Prize for Technical InnovationAwarded for outstanding achievement by a computing student in their final year project |
Shiva Tamil Kumaran |
Corporate Partnership Programme AwardDepartmental Award for Excellence in Project Work. |
Benjamin Teoh Rickie Ma |
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Steven Chen Hengzhi Li Brady Nicol |
CGCA & Old Centralians' Trust: Student Activity AwardsAwarded to the students judged by the Senior Tutor & HoD to be most active in student affairs. |
Shlok Shah Jack Finnis |
G-Research PrizeAwarded for academic excellence. |
Mykyta Osovskyi William Ye Felicity Kaner Tianyu Qi Jay Ambadkar Matthew Alex Marcus Sawyer Dhruv Padam Kumar Zakk Lazar Illia Derevianko |
Student Experience and Well-Being AwardTo recognise excellent contribution to the improvement and promotion of the well-being of our student community. |
Kristina Zimina |
Postgraduate prize winners & distinguished projects
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
Cleo's AI Innovation Group Award
Awarded for Excellence in the Group Project on the MSc AI Degree Programme.
Winners: Louis Makower, Sam Martin, Raja Moreno, Tom Jodrell, Harel Lidar Dergicz & Lauren Robson .
Cleo's AI Innovation Individual Award
Awarded to a student for an outstanding individual project in Artificial Intelligence
Lingjun Gao
Winton Capital Applied Computing MSc Prize
For annual award to an MSc student for an outstanding individual project in applied computing
Fiona Zhang & Will Palmer
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
Chinmay Pani & Thinogen Balendran
Corporate Partnership Programme Prize for Academic Excellence
Awarded for academic excellence, to students with an overall distinction and the highest exam marks.
Sam Martin, Will Foster & Albus Li
Corporate Partnership Programme Individual Project Prize in Computing Science
For annual award for excellence in the Individual Project
Prajit Sengupta, Devvrat Joshi & Molly Machin
Projects that are outstanding in terms of technical achievement and presentation are awarded "Distinguished" status
Devvrat Joshi - Scalable Foundation Model for Automated Knowledge Graph Generation from Scientific Literature
Supervisor: Dr Islem Rekik
Prajit Sengupta - Reasoning-Centric Self-Explainable Graph Neural Networks
Supervisor: Dr Islem Rekik
Molly Machin - Robust Knowledge Hypergraph Construction using LLM-as-Judge Framework: Financial Intelligence Case Study
Supervisor: Prof William Knottenbelt
Fiona Zhang - Accelerating the Cross-platform Adaptive Schrödinger-style Simulation Toolchain on GPUs
Supervisor: Dr Hongxiang Fan
Will Palmer - Agentic AI for Automated Commercial Due Diligence
Supervisor: Prof William Knottenbelt
Distinguished projects
Student project videos
DANCES by Anindita Ghosh
Detecting and ANalysing Fast-moving Contorted Poses
Early Detection of Eating Disorders by - Blanca Tebar
Early Detection of Eating Disorders using Social Media
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