Awards and honours

Ubisense, founded by the Computer Laboratory's Professor Andy Hopper , has won two prestigious UK Queen's Awards ; for International Trade and for Innovation.

The first award for International Trade recognises Ubisense's outstanding growth in overseas earnings, with export markets now representing 97%...

Congratulations to first-year computer science undergraduate Jonathan Millican, who has been named the UK's ' Cyber Security Champion ' following a competition sponsored by GCHQ and other industry heavyweights.

Jonathan saw off competition from more than 30 other finalists in the competition to claim...

Congratulations to both Cecilia Mascolo and Andreas Bulling , who have received Google Research Awards for 2011.

The Google awards program supports academic research aimed at improving information access.

Dr Mascolo's research is in the area of Social Networks, while Dr Bulling researches Human...

Professor Glynn Winskel has been elected to the Academia Europaea , the European Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Congratulations to Dan Greenfield, who has won the BCS Distinguished Dissertation prize 2011.

Dan completed his PhD under the supervision of Dr Simon Moore .

Computer Laboratory Visiting Fellow Dr Andy Harter has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. The Academy's Fellowship honours the UK's most distinguished engineers.

Tadas Baltrušaitis, a research student in the Graphics & Interaction Group, was on the winning team for the 2011 International Audio-Visual Emotion Challenge.

Tadas presented a paper on "Modeling Latent Discriminative Dynamic of Multi-Dimensional Affective Signals" at the fourth International...

Lech Świrski and Christian Richardt, PhD students in the Graphics & Interaction Group, won the ACM Student Research Competition at SIGGRAPH 2011 with their poster "Layered Photo Pop-Up', based on Lech's 2011 MPhil project.

For details of the research see: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ls426/projects/...

Professors John Daugman and Neil Dodgson have been elected Fellows of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications .

The honour recognised their 'personal contribution to the advancement of mathematics as a discipline and as a profession'.

Congratulations to Mohan Ganesalingam who has been (jointly) awarded the Beth Prize (see http://www.folli.org/ ) for his PhD thesis "The Language of Mathematics".

The E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize is awarded annually to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. It is...