Graduation Ceremony

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

2025 - 2026 Distinguished projects

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

2025 - 2026 Group Prizes

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

 

2025 - 2026 Individual Prizes


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 PrizeAwarded 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 PrizeAwarded 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 AwardAwarded 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 InnovationAwarded 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

2024 - 2025 PGT Prizes

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

2024 - 2025 PGT Distinguished Projects

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

 

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