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
Projects that are outstanding in terms of technical achievement and presentation are awarded "Distinguished" status.
Charlie Campbell - Decoupling Compute and Communication: A Non-Blocking Scheduler for Distributed Neutral Atom Devices
Supervisor: Dr. Hongxiang Fan
Michael Andryskowski - Fuzzing WGSL Compilers Using Skeletal Program Enumeration and Dataflow Fusion
Supervisor: Prof. Alastair Donaldson
Nicolas Schleicher Shrinking SPHINCS+: SNARK Aggregation for Post-Quantum Blockchains
Supervisor: Prof. Will Knottenbelt
Edwin Fernando Mechanisation of probabilistic programming languages
Supervisor: Dr. Azalea Raad
Siddhant Gadkari When Is Amortised Annealing Worth It? Diffusion Samplers for Energy-Based Optimisation
Supervisor: Dr. Roberto Bondesan
Chris Lee Heatmaps of Attackability and Detectability for Regression Data Poisoning using Information Geometry
Supervisor: Prof. Emil Lupu
Jorge De Freitas Leveraging Latent World Models for Offline Reinforcement Learning
Supervisor: Christos Zaikas
Heyang Ong The Role of Depth and Width in Neural Network Approximation
Supervisor: Alberto Croquevielle
Gursukh Sembi Deterministic LLM Inference
Supervisor: Dr. Marios Kogias
Euan Turner Memory-Constrained Inference of MoE Diffusion Language Models with Saliency-Guided Expert Optimisation
Supervisor: Dr. Hongxiang Fan
Harvey Densem Analysis and simulation methods for caches with delayed hits (Java/Kotlin)
Supervisor: Dr. Giuliano Casale
Dhruv Himatsingka Bridging Gradual Semantics and Graph Neural Networks for Argumentative Causal Discovery
Supervisor: Fabrizio Russo
Junrong Chen A Functional Library for Symbolic Execution in Lean
Supervisor: Dr. Azalea Raad
Kaede Sugano The Emotion Engine
Supervisor: Prof. Will Knottenbelt
Arthur Allilaire Development of a Simulation Environment for Reinforcement Learning in MRI
Supervisor: Prof. Wayne Luk
Marcus Sawyer JIT Compilation for Parsley
Supervisor: Dr. Jamie Willis
Kai Jet Goh PAFO: Certified Active-Set Compression for Lightspeed Distributionally Robust Learning
Supervisor: Dr. Dario Paccagnan
The Winton Prize - Outstanding Third Year Group Project Prize
Royce Chan, Jeffrey Cheung, Alexander Chow, Ryan Ghoussainy, Caleb Kan & Kee Meng Tan
Olav Beckmann Project Prize | Awarded annually for outstanding second-year undergraduate laboratory project work (individual or group)
Cristian Cristea, Felicity Kaner, Charlie Shaw & Max Smith
Undergraduate Academic Integrity Group Research |
Muhammad Abdul-Muizz, Rayan Lutufullah, Shotaro Mizuno Norville & Jun Tan
David Howarth Group Project Award | Awarded for excellence in group projects in third year undergraduate Computing
Leonard Chi, Lok Yiu Ching, Leyi Wang, Alissa Wu & Steven Wu
Amadeus 2nd Year Group Project | Award Awarded to a second year project group for best third term project
Harry Atkins, Cristian Cristea, Aryan Jain & Kuzey Korel
Governors' Prizes | The annual awards to the final year students with the best overall performance.
Thomas Johnson, Marcus Sawyer, Nicholas Schleicher & Euan Turner
The Centenary Prize | Awarded annually to a final year undergraduate student for outstanding overall performance
Hamish Starling
Adrian Israel Memorial Prize | Awarded annually for excellence in the first year
Dylan Austin
Joint Honours Mathematics and Computing Prize | Awarded for excellence in the first, second and third year of the JMC.
James Chapman, Serhii Popov & Agamjeet Singh
G Research Prize | Awarded to up to ten non-final year students for academic excellence
Harry Atkins, Sam Corbett, Arjun Fan, Nathan Gonzalez, Anita Kercso-Molnar, Arjun Kolani, Tommaso Mercadante, Panth Patel, Agamjeet Singh & Max Smith
Optiver Prize | Awarded for outstanding performance in the 1st year, considering project work and exam results
Tom Stapely & Qian Qin
ARM Project Prize | Award to an undergraduate student for an outstanding individual project in the area of computer systems.
Sponsored by Arm
Charlie Campbell
The Aspect Capital Project Prize | Awarded for an outstanding undergraduate Project
Arthur Allilaire
The HSBC Individual Project Prize | Awarded for an outstanding final year undergraduate individual project.
Sponsored by HSBC
Nicholas Schleicher
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
Dhruv Himatsingka
Solidatus Second Year Award | Awarded to the 2nd year student who has demonstrated exceptional software engineering talent during their second year
Sponsored by Solidatus
Cristian Cristea, Vladimir Filip, Felicity Kaner, Rafi Nissim & Charlie Shaw
The T. Rowe Price Project Prize | Awarded to a final year computing student for an outstanding individual project
Gursukh Sembi
The Distinguished Final Year Project Prize | Awarded to a final year student for an outstanding final year individual project in the Department of Computing
Michal Andryskowski
Marshall Wace Project Prize | Annual award for an outstanding individual project by a final year undergraduate student
Edwin Fernando
Minimax Labs Project Prize | Awarded for an excellent project showcasing algorithmic development and engineering, or scientific computation
Harvey Densem & Marcus Sawyer
The QuantCo Distinguished Project Award | Awarded for an Outstanding Final Year Project by a Student on the Joint Maths-Computing Degree Programme
Siddhant Gadkari
Corporate Partnership Programme Prize for Technical Innovation | Awarded for outstanding achievement by a computing student in their final year project
Kaede Sugano
Corporate Partnership Programme Award | Departmental Award for Excellence in Project Work
Jorge De Freitas, Kai Jet Goh, Dylan Kamath, Heyang Ong, Haotian Qi, Euan Turner, Melissa Xiao
CGCA & Old Centralians' Trust: Student Activity Awards | Awarded to the students judged by the Senior Tutor & HoD to be most active in student affairs.
Aidan Madge & Oscar Mitcham
Student experience and well-being award | In recognition of excellent contribution to the improvement and promotion of the well-being of our student community
Darren Ng & Daniel Trowbridge
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