Awards and honours

A PhD student here is receiving an award this week for his analysis of a model of balanced task allocations that has wide relevance to industry.

A PhD student here investigating ways to tackle bias in machine learning systems has won the Young AI Researcher 2022 Award at the Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit in Warsaw, Poland.

Professor Simon Peyton Jones, a Distinguished Honorary Fellow in this Department, has received an OBE for services to education and to computer science in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2022.

For his work in – quite literally – trying to prove the impossible, Professor Anuj Dawar has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant.

An AI tool for diagnosing Covid-19, a knowledge discovery business, and a new way to plot the pathways of autonomous robots were among the winners of our Hall of Fame Awards.

There was fierce concentration and lively discussion in one of our computer labs today as 14 teams of students from local secondary schools took part in the first Cambridge Coding Competition.

Congratulations to our colleague Dr Amanda Prorok who has won a 2022 Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching.

There were awards today for student design projects including an app for users to compute the carbon costs of their journeys, and a tool to help people in rural Bangladesh report climate change effects.

A student's frustration at not being able to listen to music or answer phone calls while cycling led him to research ways of removing wind noise from microphones. His work has just won him an award.