Distinguished projects

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

O'Sullivan, Arran, Chainlog - A Logic-based Smart Contract Language

Chua, Wilson, Analytics for Urban Networks - Integrating Graph Neural Networks with Space Syntax

Banerjee, Arjun, FedGDKD - Federated GAN-Based Data-Free Knowledge Distillation for Heterogeneous Models

Bujel, Kamil, Finding the Needle in a Haystack - Zero-shot Rationale Extraction for Long Text Classifiers

Varshney, Aporva, The Geometry of Berkovich Analytic Spaces

Parac, Roko, Automatic Concept Extraction and Its Use in Explaining Video Classification

Rusch, Dominic, Detecting Source Code Plagiarism From Online Software Repositories

Goel, Aditya, Model Aligned Offline Reinforcement Learning (MAORL)

Williams, Casey, Quasi-Monte Carlo methods for calculating derivatives sensitivities on the GPU

Wu, Stacey, Better than registers - designing an instruction set to make o-o-o microarchitecture simpler and faster

Blanchard, Lancelot, GenFastLAS - Scaling up the FastLAS system to large feature spaces, and application to Symbolic Music Genre Classification

La Scala, Giacomo, Variational Time-Steppers that are Finite Element in Time for Firedrake and Irksome

Sharma, Mayank, RustSmith - a Randomized Program Generator for Rust

Mohsin, Hasan, WGSLsmith - a Random Generator of WebGPU shader programs

Mishra, Manuj, Self-classifying point clouds

Ocado Technology Group Project Prize

Awarded to an Outstanding Third Year Group Project for Software Engineering Excellence. 

James Ball
Pawel Kroll
Jessica Lally
Stefan Radziuk
Sudarshan Sreeram
Andy Wang

Olav Beckmann Project Prize

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

Oliver Killane
Robbie Buxton
Jordan Hall
Archie Licudi
Bartlomiej Cieslar

David Howarth Group Project Award

Awarded for excellence in group projects in third-year undergraduate Computing.

Governors' Prize

For the annual award to the final year students with the best overall performance on the BEng Mathematics and Computer Science/MEng Mathematics and Computer Science.

Manuj Mishra
Alyssa Renata
Aporva Varshney
Tristan Wride

The Distinguished Final Year Project Prize

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

Theo Charalambous

The Centenary Prize

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

Adrian Israel Memorial Prize

Awarded annually for excellence in the first year.

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.

Zhanrong Qiao

Vlad Coroian

Andrew Elkadi 

Zlatina Mileva

ARM Project Prize

For the annual award to an undergraduate student for an outstanding individual project in the area of computer systems

 Rini Banerjee

The Aspect Capital Project Prize

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

Huawei Compiler Project Prize

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

IBM Prize

Awarded for outstanding achievement in an individual project by an undergraduate student in the Department of Computing
Sponsored by IBM

Microsoft Prize

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

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.)

Wilson Chua

Solidatus Second Year Award

Awarded to student who has demonstrated exceptional software engineering talent during their second year

Deepro Choudhury 

Splunk Prize

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

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

Calin Biberea
Aporva Varshney

Corporate Partnership Programme Award

Departmental Award for Excellence in Project Work.

Bruno da Rocha Paiva
Clara Lebbos
Nicolas D'Cotta
Dominic Rusch
Aditya Goel
Casey Williams
Matyas Horkay
Mayank Sharma
Hasan Mohsin
Manuj Mishra
Amelia Khavari
Tristan Wride

CGCA & Old Centralians' Trust: Student Activity Awards

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

Lizzie Williams

Henry Johnson Memorial Prize

For the annual award to the undergraduate or postgraduate student of the Department of Computing who has shown the greatest endeavour in pursuit of their studies.

Reece Jackson

G-RESEARCH Ltd Prize 

For the annual award to up to ten non-final year students of each of the departments of Computing, Mathematics and Physics for academic excellence.

Pratyaksh Sharma
Dhruv Jimulia
Ruchit Tandon
Jyry Hjelt
Xingjian Xie
Yitang Chen
Omran Arzomand
Archie Licudi
Shiv Bhatia
Tony Liu

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. 

Prabhjot Grewal
Arjun Banerjee

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)