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

2024 - 2025 Distinguished UG projects

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

2024 - 2025 Group Prizes
Prize Winners
Ocado Technology Group Project Prize

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

Julianne Leung
Isaac Lee
Haren Samarasinghe
Gursukh Sembi
Ryan Song
Benjamin Wong

Olav Beckmann Project Prize

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

Stefan Van Biljon
Matthew Alex
Conan Li
David Howarth Group Project Award

Awarded for excellence in group projects in third-year

Euan Turner
Trung Bao Nguyen
Pedro Sa Fontes
Tom Smail
James Watling
Tsz Shing Yu

 

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


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

Adam Newman
Emma Le Clech
Ray Lei
Tony Alocious
2024 - 2025 Individual Prizes
Prize Winner(s)

Governors' Prizes

The annual awards to the final year student(s) with the best overall performance.

Christopher Austin
Jerome Leow
Jyry Hjelt
Queena Wong

The Centenary Prize

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

Angus Leung

Adrian Israel Memorial Prize

Awarded annually for excellence in the first year.

Mykyta Osovskyi

Joint Honours Mathematics and Computer Science Prize

Awarded for excellence in the first, second and third year of the JMC.

Tianyu Qi
Freddie Nunn
Harvey Densem

ARM Project Prize

Award to an undergraduate student for an outstanding individual project in the area of computer systems.
Sponsored by Arm


Max Stupple

The HSBC Individual Project Prize

Awarded for an outstanding final year undergraduate individual project.
Sponsred by HSBC

Kristina Zimina

Huawei Project Prize

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


Lucas Graeff Buhl-Nielsen

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.

 Abrar Rashid

Solidatus Second Year Award

Awarded to the 2nd year student who has demonstrated exceptional software engineering talent during their second year.
Sponsored by Solidatus

 Angad Kalra

The Distinguished Final Year Project Prize

Awarded 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 Prize

Awarded to a final year undergraduate student for an outstanding individual project in applied computing.
Sponsored by Winton Capital

Pratyaksh Sharma
Mithun Sri

Marshall Wace Project Prize

Annual award for the an outstanding individual project by a final year undergraduate student in the Department of Computing.

Siu Pei Ooi

Minimax Labs Project Prize

Awarded 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 Innovation

Awarded for outstanding achievement by a computing student in their final year project

Shiva Tamil Kumaran

Corporate Partnership Programme Award

Departmental Award for Excellence in Project Work.

Benjamin Teoh
Rickie Ma


Corporate Partnership Programme Award

Departmental Award for Excellence in Project Work.

Steven Chen
Hengzhi Li
Brady Nicol

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 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 Award

To recognise excellent contribution to the improvement and promotion of the well-being of our student community. 

Kristina Zimina

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

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

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

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