As part of our collaboration with industry we are very keen to talk to companies who are interested in sponsoring Computer Science Prizes.
Prizes are currently awarded in recognition of outstanding academic achievement and contribution to UCL Computer Science. In addition to inclusion on our website, companies that donate prizes can publicise their support for the department and are able to associate themselves with our best performing students. To discuss being involved with out prizes please contact Steve Marchant.
We are delighted that the following industrial partners have sponsored Computer Science Prizes
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley
BSc & MEng Computer Science 'Program a Robot' Prize
Morgan Stanley Trophy
2012 1st Prize Michael Boon & Richard Davis
2012 2nd Prize Teruki Tauchi & Vaibhav Bhatla
2012 3rd Prize Markus Padourek & Chi Chiu
MSc Computer Science & MSc Financial Computing App Prizes (in partnership with UCL Advances)
£125
2013 Best MSc Computer Science App Ben Lee-Rodgers
2013 Best MSc Financial Computing App Sarah Sewell
2013 Most Innovative App Zhengwhu Cai
2013 Best Windows 8 App Yannick Sealy
2013 Best Android App (joint) Mikko Poutanen & Amit Ratanje
2013 Best Research App Joon Park
2013 Best Games App Dolan Miu
1st Prize £200, 2nd Prize £150, 3rd Prize £100
2012 1st Prize (MSc Computer Science) Kavi Dhokia
2012 2nd Prize (MSc Computer Science) Andrew Newman
2012 3rd Prize (joint) (MSc Computer Science) Becker Ingolf & Fei Gao
2012 1st Prize (MSc Financial Computing) Xin Zhang
2012 2nd Prize (MSc Financial Computing) Lifan Zhou
2012 3rd Prize (MSc Financial Comptuting) Derek Ho
BSc & MEng Computer Science Best 1st Year Android Apps
Google Shield
To be awarded
DUCO
DUCO
The UCL Duco Prize in Computer Science
for BSc & MEng Computer Science 2nd Year Best Performance in Examination
1st Prize £1000, 2nd Prize £600, 3rd Prize £400
To be awarded
IBM
IBM
BSc & MEng Computer Science Best Individual Project Prize
1st Prize £250, 2nd Prize £150, 3rd Prize £100
2012 1st Prize William Martin: ‘Topic Model Training Enhancement’.
2012 2nd Prize Up Jakub Kozlowski: ‘Eugene: Agent-based market simulator for use on validation and system testing of trading algorithms’.
2012 3rd Prize Judyta Palimonka: ‘Increasing transparency of targeted advertising'.
2011 1st Prize Luke Dodd: 'Finite Representations of Relation Algebras and the Flexible Atom Conjecture'.
2011 2nd Prize Thomas Davies: 'Change Blindness on Mobile Devices'.
2011 3rd Prize (joint) James Pie: 'Trinucleotide Repeat Disease Database with Automatic Updating Web Resource' & Dinesh Alwar: 'Coursework Marker in Java'.
BBC
BBC
MSc Computer Graphics, Vision and Imaging Best Overall Project Prize
£250
2012 Oscar Plag: 'Non-Parametric Hanwriting Synthesis'.
2011 Daniyar Turmukhambetov: 'Intrinsic Images from Color and Depth'.
Wiley
Wiley
BSc & MEng Computer Science Best Performance in Practical Subjects Prize
1st Year £50, 2nd Year £75, 3rd Year £100
2012 1st Year (joint) Benjamin Congdon & Michael Boon
2012 2nd Year (joint) Andreas Charalambous & Kamil Przekwas
2012 3rd Year Jiming Luan
Winton Capital
Winton Capital
MSc Computational Statistics & Machine Learning / MSc Machine Learning Best Individual Project Prize
1st Prize £500, 2nd Prize £350, 3rd Prize £150
2012 1st Prize Heiko Strathmann
2012 2nd Prize Diogo Norinho
2012 3rd Prize (joint) Matthew Willson & Diana Borsa
2011 1st Prize Marius Cobzarenco
2011 2nd Prize Benedict Kuester
2011 3rd Prize Simon Cousins
MSc Computational Statistics & Machine Learning /MSc Machine Learning Best Overall Academic Achievement Prize
1st Prize £500, 2nd Prize £350, 3rd Prize £150
2012 1st Prize Heiko Strathmann
2012 2nd Prize Matthew Willson
2012 3rd Prize Diana Borsa
2011 1st Prize Sam Patterson
2011 2nd Prize Evelina Gabasova
2011 3rd Prize Sonja Lim
BCS
BCS
MSc Software Systems Engineering Best Performance in Taught Component Prize
£100 and One Years Free BCS Membership
To be awarded
SAS
SAS
MSc Information Security Best Individual Project Prize
1st Prize £500, 2nd Prize £350, 3rd Prize £150
2012 1st Prize Yann Salamon: 'Boneh-Boyen's Short Signature Scheme: a Case Study for Provable Security'.
2012 2nd Prize Samuel Phelps: 'Exploring new uses and attacks with the UCL building card and MiFare Classic'.
2012 3rd Prize Aleieldin Salem: 'Semantic-based Misuse Detection of Malware in Web Applications'.
Orange
Orange
Best Dissertation in HCI & Ergonomics Prize
1st Prize £500, 2nd Prize £500
2012 1st Prize Kathy Stawarz: 'An Ergonomic Evaluation of the Potential Impact of Touch-Screen Tablets on Office Workers'.
2012 2nd Prize Terri Herbert: The joy is in the journey: evaluation of the group experience with the Compass Card Programme at the Nastional Maritime Museum, Greenwich'.
2011 1st Prize NicoletteConti: 'Smart Phone Tailored Advertising'.
2011 2nd Prize (joint) Mirjami Alakoskela: 'Investigating the Effects of Pain Priming and Cognitive Distraction on Walking of Lower Back Pain Sufferers by Motion Capture' & Tom Snell: 'Supervisory Resilience in Focus'.
Citigroup
Citigroup
MSc Financial Institutions & Markets Best Time Series Group Course Work Prize
TBC
UCL-CS announce new DUCO Prize
We were delighted to recently accept a generous donation from DUCO, formerly ModelTwoZero, to sponsor academic cash prizes for our 2nd Year students on BSc & MEng Computer Science courses. The UCL Duco Prize in Computer Science will be awarded for the best performance in examinations. As a Department we are always keen to recognise outstanding academic achievement and we are very grateful to UCL-CS Alumnus Dr Christian Nentwich, CEO of DUCO, for his support.
IBM Prize Winners
A special congratulations to the below winners of our IBM sponsored Academic Prizes for BSc/MEng Computer Science Best Individual Projects. Winners were presented with their prizes by CS Alumnus and Associate Partner for IBM UK Dr Reza Hazemi.
1st prize (£250) William Martin: ‘Topic Model Training Enhancement’.
2nd prize (£150) Jakub Kozlowski: ‘Eugene: Agent-based market simulator for use on validation and system testing of trading algorithms’.
3rd prize (£100) Judyta Palimonka: ‘Increasing transparency of targeted advertising’.
Well done to all!
Developing prize winning apps
CS is proud to be the first UK university department to incorporate Apps development into our core curriculum courses. This term we hosted our second Apps prizegiving, for MSc Computer Science and MSc Financial Computing students. Morgan Stanley partnered with UCL Advances to provide a £1000 prize fund for students.
Many of the final products were suitable for market, and will be released soon. Winners were awarded their cash prizes by Jake Dennison, Executive Director at Morgan Stanley. The teaching team would like to thank all students for their hard work, the Apps teaching assistants for their dedication, and Morgan Stanley and UCL Advances for recognising the students' potential.
Many congratulations to our winners Ben Lee-Rodgers, Sarah Sewell, Zhengwhu Cai, Yannick Sealy, Mikko Poutanen, Amit Ratanje, Joon Park, Dolan Miu, pictured with Jake from Morgan Stanley.
UCL-CS's 1st Robot Race 2012
On Friday 1 June CS undergraduate students participating in 'Program A Robot' module took part in the final races. Morgan Stanley kindly sponsored the event and presented trophies to the winning teams. See here for photos and a video of the final race and trophy presentation.
Congratulations to the winners:
1st place Michael Boon, Richard Davis
2nd place Teruki Tauchi, Vaibhav Bhatla
3rd place Markus Padourek, Chi Chiu
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