Awards and honours

PhD student Jingyun Zhang has won a CAPE Acorn Post-graduate Research Award 2016 for a joint project with Lu Bai.

The project, The Digital Distributed Antenna System (DDAS) over Internet Protocol (IP), is one of three to receive the CAPE Acorn Award.

Jingyun Zhang is a member of the Systems...

The event was run on April 23rd at the Computer Laboratory, in partnership with Facebook.

Ten of the 13 ACE...

Dr Markus Kuhn received a Bright Ideas Award in a ceremony at the University Information Service (UIS) on April 7th 2016.

For the inaugural Bright Ideas campaign, UIS chose to target the 900-strong Cambridge IT community with a technology-focused issue: "affordable ideas that would make a difference to...

Professor John Daugman has been elected a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI) at a ceremony in Washington DC.

Election to NAI Fellow status is a high professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or...

Erroll Wood has received the Emerging Investigator Award at the ACM SIGGraph Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications for his paper 'Learning an appearance-based gaze estimator from one million synthesised images'. The paper is joint work with Tadas Baltrusaitis, Louis-Philippe Morency, Peter...

The Pilkington Teaching Award recognises excellence and innovation in teaching, making a significant impact on the student learning experience.

The Institute of Navigation (ION) presented its Dr Samuel M Burka Award to Dr Ramsey M Faragher and Dr Robert K Harle for their paper “Towards an Efficient, Intelligent Opportunistic Smartphone Indoor Positioning System” published in the Spring 2015 issue of NAVIGATION, Journal of The Institute of Navigation,...

A research paper by Robert Mullins, Andrew West and Simon Moore was selected as the "10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper" in the 2016 Asia & South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC). The award for the paper, “ The design and implementation of a low-latency on-chip network ”, was presented to...

PhD student, Andra Adams, has been named the winner of the UK ICT Pioneers 2015 in the category 'Transforming Society'.

UK ICT Pioneers is 'a unique partnership between Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and key stakeholders that aims to recognise the most exceptional UK doctoral...