PhD Graduates
Congratulations to our recent PhD graduates
We are proud to announce the notable accomplishment of our latest PhD graduates who have successfully passed their doctoral dissertations and vivas.
Stories written by Royston Ingram
Junior Dahl Nygaard prize
Doc postdoctoral researcher awarded the prestigious Junior Dahl Nygaard prize
Dr Alex Summers has been awarded the Junior Dahl Nygaard prize for his work on the verification of object-oriented programs and type systems.
Ex Machina
DoC Academic advises top film director for "Ex Machina"Sci-Fi film
Film maker Alex Garland was so inspired by one of Professor Murray Shanahan's books he has asked him to advise him on his new SciFi film Ex Machina
REF
DoC's research achieves outstanding REF results
Consistently Outstanding
Silver medal
Imperial College Student Team wins Silver medal at European Programming Contest
Three student teams represented Imperial at the annual North Western Europe Regional Programming Contest, which was held in Linköping, Sweden.
End of the human race
Professor Murray Shanahan replies to Stephen Hawking
The renowned physicist Prof Stephen Hawking has warned: "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."
Industrial Fellowship
DoC PhD student awarded Royal Commission Industrial Fellowship
Ben Chamberlain has been awarded an Industrial Fellowship sponsored by Starcount and the Royal Commission to look at social media spam filtering.
Digital Currency
Imperial Student Launches Digital Currency Lending Start-up
A recent Department of Computing graduate has co-founded TradeMore, a start-up focusing on enabling Bitcoin lending and borrowing.
UK&IE
Imperial College student team wins 2nd UK&IE programming contest
After the successful first student UK and Republic of Ireland Programming Contest (UKIEPC) last year, the competition continues to grow.
The Guardian
DoC Academic and his team's research featured in "The Guardian".
Dr Aldo Faisal and his team's work on creating an eye tracker for 43 pounds
featured in "The Guardian"
