Awards and honours

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.

Students from this Department have won medals in the International Collegiate Programming Competition World Finals, and the Country-2-Country Capture The Flag cybersecurity competition.

Work on developing a mobile phone technology that can sense our emotions and tell if we are happy or sad has just won researchers here a 10-year Impact Award.

Dr Robert Watson has won the 2021 EuroSys Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award, given annually to junior European researchers who have demonstrated exceptional creativity and innovation in systems research.

Teams of undergraduates today won awards for projects including creating an app to help children's nurses in Myanmar monitor their young patients, and designing a system for a robotic arm to pack 3D objects into a delivery box.

A lecturer here researching ways that 3D digital reality could make gaming, cinema-going, healthcare, remote working and virtual learning more immersive has been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship.

A group of systems researchers here, along with their industrial and academic collaborators, are celebrating receiving a prestigious award for a breakthrough that took them six years to achieve.

PhD student Shyam Tailor has won a 'Best Paper' award for his work on developing a wearable device that can continuously monitor users' hearts, even in noisy everyday life.