Postgraduate archive

2015-2016

The Corporate Partnership Programme Awards for Academic Excellence

Awarded for academic excellence, to students with an overall distinction and the highest exam marks. Value: £600 per student. This year's winners:

  • MSc Computing Science: Snowden, Christopher.
  • MSc Computing (Specialism): Lertvittayakumjorn, Piyawat.
  • MSc Advanced Computing: Matellanes, Ivan.

The Winton Capital Applied Computing MSc Project Prize

Awarded to an MSc student in the Department of Computing for an outstanding performance on their final project. Value: £600 per student. This year's winners: 

  • MSc Computing Science: Snowden, Christopher.
  • MSc Advanced Computing: Bahri, Mehdi.

MSc Computing/MSc Specialism Group Project Prize, Sponsored By CPP

For annual award for excellence in the Group Project on the MSc Computing Science and MSc Computing (Software Engineering) programmes. Value: £600 per group. This year's winners from the MSc Computing Science Group: 

  • Thomas, Angharad
  • Chan, Melinda
  • Filipi, Luca
  • Joyce, David
  • Shea, Katie
  • Williams, Henry
  • Automating the creation of 3D-printed supplies for humanitarian aid camps

 

Distinguished Projects

  • Azzariti, Cataldo, Adaptive Gameplay Monte Carlo Tree Search Algorithms
  • Bahri, Mehdi, Robust Tensor Factorisations: New Algorithms And Extensive Comparisons
  • Chen, Xi, Reinforcement Learning Based Strategies for the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma and the Double-Game Prisoner's Dilemma
  • Feng, Yingjing, Efficient Cardiac Mapping Strategies with Active Learning and Reinforcement Learning
  • Filipi, Luca, Practical Polarisation Imaging for Surface Shape and Texture Acquisition
  • Moschoglou, Stelios, Generalisation of Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis
  • Raptis, Dimos, Monitorito: Real-time visualisation of high-dimensional web traffic
  • Snowden, Christopher, Twitter Observatory
2016-2017

ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARDS, SPONSORED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTING CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME (CPP)

Awarded for academic excellence, to students with an overall distinction and the highest exam marks. Value: £600 per student. This year's winners: 

  • MSc Advanced Computing: Lansac, Bruno   
  • MRes Advanced Computing: Zhao, Ruizhe
  • MSc Computing: Bor, Julianna 
  • MSc Computing Specialisms: Sternberg, William

BEST (APPLIED) MSC/MRES/SPECIALISM PROJECT, SPONSORED BY WINTON CAPITAL

For annual award to an MSc student for an outstanding individual project in applied computing. Value: £600. This year's winner: 

  • Wesselhoeft, Christian (MSc  ML)

BEST MSC COMPUTING PROJECT, SPONSORED BY CPP

For annual award to a MSc student for an outstanding individual project in applied computing. Value: £600. This year's winner: 

  • Bor, Julianna (MSc)

BEST MASTERS PROJECT FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL QUALITIES, SPONSORED BY ENTREPRENEUR FIRST

Awarded for the best masters project for entrepreneurial qualities. Value: £500. This year's winner:

  • Thomas Debrunner (MSc AI)

2016-17 Project Prizes

MSC COMPUTING/MSC SPECIALISM GROUP PROJECT PRIZE TO BE AWARDED TO THE MSC COMPUTING GROUP, SPONSORED BY CPP

For annual award for excellence in the Group Project on the MSc Computing Science and MSc Computing (Software Engineering) programmes. Value: £100 per student. This year's winners: 

  • Bor, Julianna
  • Gartland, James
  • Primc, Mateja
  • Sigl-Gloeckner, Philippa
  • Truter, Gavin
  • Valladares, Craig

2016-17 Distinguished projects

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

2017-2018

2017-18 Sponsored Prizes

PrizeWinners

 

Academic Excellence Awards, sponsored by The Department of Computing Corporate Partnership Programme (CPP)

Awarded for academic excellence, to students with an overall distinction and the highest exam marks. Value: £600 per student.

 

 MSc Advanced Computing: Heinrich, Quentin
MRes Advanced Computing: Fan, Hongxiang
MSc Computing: Kroupa, Pavel
MSc Computing Specialisms: Chen, Jiaxin

 

Best (applied) MAC/MRes/Specialism Project, sponsored by Winton Capital

For the annual award to an MSc student for an outstanding individual project in applied computing. Value: £600.

 

Lange, Robert (MSc ML)

Title: Action Grammars: A Grammar Induction-Based Method (...) (PDF)‌
‌Supervisor: Faisal, Aldo

 

BEST (APPLIED) MSC PROJECT, SPONSORED BY WINTON CAPITAL

For the annual award to a MSc student for an outstanding individual project in applied computing. Value: £600.

 

Sigl-Gloeckner, Philippa (MSc Computing)

Title: Visualising Financial Systems (PDF)
Supervisor: Knottenbelt, William

 

The Corporate Partnership Programme Best Project Prize 

Awarded for the best project. Value: £600. 

 

Aspis, Yaniv (MSc ML)

Title: A Linear Algebraic Approach to Logic Programming (PDF)
Supervisor: Broda, Krysia

 

The Blockchain.com Prize in Computing Science 

Awarded for the best MSc Blockchain/Cryptocurrency-related project. Value: £1000.

 

Morrison, Matthew (MSc Computing)

Title: A Government-Backed Cryptocurrency for Universal Basic Income (PDF)
Supervisor: Knottenbelt, William

Best Masters Project for Entrepreneurial Qualities, sponsored by Entrepreneur First

Awarded for the best masters project for entrepreneurial qualities.

 

 

Chan, Ephraim (MSc Computing)

Title: Deploying computing methods in e-commerce to enhance revenue (in partnership with Expedia.co.uk; subject to non-disclosure agreement)
Supervisor: Birch, David

 

 

 

MSc Computing/MSc Specialism Group project prize to be awarded to the MSc Computing group, sponsored by CPP

For annual award for excellence in the Group Project on the MSc Computing Science and MSc Computing (Software Engineering) programmes. Value: £100 per student. This year awarded jointly to two groups.

 

GROUP 6

Amarasinghe, Charith
Griffiths, James
Hemker, Konstantin
Nikolaou, Dimitris
Spurrier, Simon
Vossen, Julian

Project: Cryptick - A Digital Asset Portfolio Management Platform (PDF)

Supervisor: Knottenbelt, William

GROUP 7

Doshi, Sagar
Falck, Fabian
Lingi, John
Pouletty, Clara
Rants, Kim
Smuts, Nico

Project: Cryptick - A Digital Asset Portfolio Management Platform (PDF) (self-proposed project)

Supervisor: Davison, Andrew

Corporate Partnership Programme Commendation for Group Project

For the annual award to the MSc Computing group. Value: £100 per student. 

GROUP 2

Baylis, Max
Koller, Swen
Kroupa, Pavel
Kunii, Kiyohito
Ong, Wai
Wong, Matthew

Project: Machine Learning for Product Recognition at Ocado (PDF)
Supervisor: Kainz, Bernhard
 
Summary of the table's contents

 

2017-18 Distinguished projects

Project StatusWinners

Distinguished projects

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

 

Ahmed, Talha, MSc Computing, 

Aits, Dominic, MSc Computing, 

Aspis, Yaniv, MSc Computing (Specialism), 

Chan, Ephraim, MSc Computing, Deploying computing methods in e-commerce to enhance revenue (subject to NDA)

Chen, Jiaxin, MSc Computing (Specialism), 

Gong, Shunwang, MSc in Advanced Computing, 

Hemker, Konstantin, MSc Computing, 

Lange, Robert, MSc Computing (Specialism), 

Liu, Shikun, MRes in Advanced Computing, 

Morrison, Matthew, MSc Computing, 

Sigl-Gloeckner, Philippa, MSc Computing, Visualising Financial Systems (PDF)
‌

Sotiropoulos, Thodoris, MSc in Advanced Computing, 

Wong, Matthew, MSc Computing, 

Yong, Sam, MSc Computing, 

Zanga, Williams, MSc Computing, 

Zusag, Mario, MSc Computing (Specialism), 
2019-2020
Project Status Winners

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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2020-2021
Prize Winners

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
Project Status Winners

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)
2021-2022

 

Project Status Winners

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)
2023- 2024 Distinguished PG projects

Distinguished projects

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

Al-ani, Fatima  |  [MSc AI Internship] PhycoWorks

Ben Abdelbaki, Hachem  |  Implementing and Training Group Equivariant Neural
Networks on Symmetric Data

Durand, Jean  |  Causal Bayesian Optimization with Unknown Causal Graphs

Ferreira Pinto, Helena  |  [MSc AI Internship] Amazon

Goodbrand, Euan |   Learning From Noisy Network Intrusion Detection Systems Data

Hilton, George  |  A Generalised Approach to Qudit Reduction using Symmetries of Z_d

Jiang, Freddy  |  Cardiac Shape Analysis with Nouveau Variational Autoencoder

Mancini, Kevin  |  DeltaGNN: Graph Neural Network with Information Flow Control and Interaction-Decoupling Module

McClusky, Ben |   Dynamic Graph Communication for Decentralised Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Mitsides, Konstantinos  |  Combining Deep Reinforcement Learning and Quality-Diversity Algorithms

Pollock, Joseph  |  Implications of data-dependent privacy for differentially private ML model training (DP-SGD)

Ragkousis, Angelos  |  Controlling Information Leakage in Concept Bottleneck Models with Trees

Ramesh, Anjali |   What's [MASK]? Exploring techniques for Conversational Question-Answering

Rosen, Oliver Calman  |  Quality-Diversity for Exploration and Robust Policy Generation in 3D Platformer Environments (Industrial Collaboration with Sony Entertainment)

Sheridan-Methven, Oliver  |  Multilevel Monte Carlo for Stochastic Differential Equations

Singh, Pragya |   [Imperial-X] Generative GNNs for Graph Super-resolution

Sjostedt, Opale  | Adding and Optimising Resource Algebras for a Parametric CSE

Teh, Ming Hwang | Novel Framework for Evolutionary Neural Symbolic Autonomous Adversarial Agents (ENSA3) for Cybersecurity Simulation

Wong, Matthew  |  Intensive testing of the WebGPU API via smart call sequence
generation

Wong, Sunny   | Normalising flow and diffusion models on lattice field theory

Xiang, Minqi    [MSc AI Internship] Tencent Games Lightspeed Studios

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
2023 - 2024 MSc Prizes

The Corporate Partnership Programme MSc Group Project Prize
For annual award for excellence in the Group Project on the MSc AI Programme

Rada Djoneva; Helena Ferreira Pinto; Dilay Ercelik; Megan Howard; Alejandro Ayuso Garcia; Avanija Menon

The Corporate Partnership Programme Awards for Academic Excellence
Awarded for academic excellence, to students with an overall distinction and
the highest exam marks.

Helena Ferreira Pinto; Mikolaj Deja; Matthew Wong 

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

Oliver Sheridan-Methven; Pragya Singh; Opale Sjostedt; Euan Goodbrand 

Splunk Prize for Excellence in MSc Individual Project
An excellent MSc individual project in the area of data science and machine learning

Kevin Mancini 

Winton Capital Applied Computing MSc Prize
For annual award to an MSc student for an outstanding individual project in applied computing

Ming Hwang Teh; Freddy Jiang

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

Maxime Jacovella