Awards and honours

An undergraduate working on a pioneering new way to make our digital devices more secure has won the annual Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers' Award for Excellence and Achievement in Computer Hardware.

Congratulations to Nic Lane, Professor of Machine Learning Systems here, who has won an ERC Proof of Concept grant 2022.

A research collaboration between this Department and semiconductor leader Arm on pioneering cybersecurity technology has been shortlisted for the Royal Academy of Engineering Bhattacharyya Award 2022.

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.