External Sponsorships, Prizes and Awards

All Sponsorships, Awards, and Prizes are external to the Department and/or at Internationally Recognised Events. And all Sponsorships or Travel Grants are competitively awarded. Awards are to PGRs who are part of our Research Community.

Awards by Reverse Chronology

2022

  • Kaled Alshmrany, Lucas Cordeiro (supervisor), Three gold medals in the 4th Intl. Competition on Software Testing (Test-Comp) at the 25th Intl. Conf. on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE’22), European Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS).

  • Kaled Alshmrany, Lucas Cordeiro (supervisor), One gold and one silver medal in the 3rd Intl. Competition on Software Testing (Test-Comp) at the 24th Intl. Conf. on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE’21), European Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS).

  • Alex Hambley, Simon Harper, Markel Vigo, Yeliz Yesilada (supervisors), Optimising the website accessibility conformance evaluation methodology, Winner: Best Communication Paper at W4A 2022.

  • Hugo Lefeuvre, Pierre Olivier (supervisor), FlexOS: Towards Flexible OS Isolation, Winner: Manchester Doctoral College (MDC) Excellence Award for Best Outstanding Output in the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

  • Hugo Lefeuvre, Distinguished Artifact Award at ASPLOS’22.

  • Chris Worth, Simon Harper, Paul Nutter, Hood Thabit (supervisors), ‘The Problem With Lie-ins’ - Winner: Manchester 3Minute Thesis Competition.

2021

  • Alaa Alahmadi, Caroline Jay (supervisor), The only Computer Science project to reach the final of the 2021 Parliamentary and Scientific Committee/Royal Academy of Engineering STEM for Britain Awards.

  • Alaa Alahmadi, Caroline Jay (supervisor), The UK-SACB Excellence Doctoral Research Awards 2019, 2020, 2021.

  • William Griggs, Tom Thompson (supervisor), EPSRC doctoral Prize - (Apr 21 - Mar 22).

  • Harry Waring, Tom Thompson (supervisor), EPSRC doctoral Prize - (Apr 21 - Mar 22).

2020

  • Alaa Alahmadi, Caroline Jay (supervisor), Highly Commended in the IET Healthcare Technologies Awards 2020 (William James Award).

  • Charlotte Bull, Tom Thompson (supervisor), IoP Magnetism 2020: Developing spin-based emitters for improved THz radiation sources.

  • Charlotte Bull, Tom Thompson (supervisor), (Invited position) Program Co-Chair: Around-the-Clock Around-the-Globe Magnetics Conference Aug 2020.

2019

  • Ahmed Bhayat, Giles Reger (supervisor), Woody Bledsoe Student Travel Award.

  • Charlotte Bull, Paul Nutter & Tom Thomson (supervisors), International Travel Grant, IEEE MMM/Intermag (Washington DC).

  • Michail Papadimitriou, Christos Kotselidis (supervisor), Best Paper Award (Winner) and Prize Winner with Full International Travel Grant, AccelCloud workshop at Hipeac.

  • Michalis Papadimitriou, Christos Kotselidis (supervisor), HiPEAC collaboration grant award.

  • Cameron Shand, John Keane, Richard Allmendinger (supervisors), Best Paper (Nomination), Evolutionary Machine Learning Track at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO).

  • William Woof, Ke Chen (supervisor), Kaggle Challenge (4th Prize), CyberSec & AI Prague.

  • Maria Xekalaki, Christos Kotselidis (supervisor), Invitation with Full Sponsorship, Google compiler summit, 2019

  • Orion Papadakis, Christos Kotselidis (supervisor), Invitation with Full Sponsorship, Google compiler summit, 2019

  • Andreas Andronikakis, Christos Kotselidis (supervisor), Invitation with Full Sponsorship, Google compiler summit, 2019

  • Michalis Papadimitriou, Christos Kotselidis (supervisor), Invitation with Full Sponsorship, Google compiler summit, 2019

  • Conor Sheehan, James Elson Award.

  • Connor Abraham, James Elson Award.

  • Jiyong Lee, Deans Award.

  • Mengya Li, Deans Award.

  • Ahmad Zareie, Deans Award.

2018

  • Damian Arellane, Kung-Kiu Lau (supervisor), Best Paper (Winner), 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Seattle.

  • Charlotte Bull, Paul Nutter & Tom Thomson (supervisors), Summer School Sponsorship and Travel Grant (Ecuador), IEEE Magnetics Society.

  • Charlotte Bull, Paul Nutter & Tom Thomson (supervisors), Poster (Highly Commended), IoP Magnetism.

  • Fenia Christopoulou (in collaboration with Thy Thy Tran), Sophia Ananiadou (Supervisor), n2c2 Shared Task on Challenges in Natural Language Processing for Clinical Data (3rd Place), Harvard Medical School Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI).

  • Fenia Christopoulou, Sophia Ananiadou (Supervisor), ACL Walker Fund Travel Award, Association for Computational Linguistics.

  • William Griggs, Tom Thomson (supervisor), International Travel Grant, M-SNOWS.

  • William Griggs, Tom Thomson (supervisor), Full Sponsorship, ISIS Neutron Training Course.

  • Meizhi Ju (in collaboration with Nhung T.H. Nguyen), Sophia Ananiadou (Supervisor), n2c2/UMass Track on Clinical Concept Normalization (3rd Place), Harvard Medical School Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI).

  • Orion Papadakis, Christos Kotselidis (supervisor), Full Travel Grant, ACACES Summer School.

  • Michail Papadimitriou, Christos Kotselidis (supervisor), Invitation with Full Sponsorship, Google Compiler Summit.

  • Michalis Papadimitriou, Christos Kotselidis (supervisor), Full International Travel Grant, ACACES Summer School.

  • Anuj Vaishnav, Dirk Koch (supervisor), Best Paper (Nomination), International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT)

  • Harry Waring, Tom Thomson & Ivan vera Marun - Physics (supervisors), Summer School Sponsorship and Travel Grant (Ecuador), IEEE Magnetics Society.

  • Maria Xekalaki, Christos Kotselidis (supervisor), Invitation with Full Sponsorship, Google compiler summit.

  • Maria Xekalaki, Christos Kotselidis (supervisor), Full International Travel Grant, ACACES summer school.

  • Atefeh Heydari, Deans Award.

  • Ruba Alassaf, Deans Award.

  • Thayaparan Mokanarangan, Deans Award.

  • Tolijian Trajanovski, Deans Award.

2017

  • Mariam Alqasab, Suzanne Embury & Sandra Sampaio (supervisors), Best paper award (Winner), 12th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC17).

  • Ahmed Bhayat, James Elson Award and Presidents Doctoral Scholarship.

  • Alex Bogatu, Norman W. Paton & Alvaro A. A. Fernandes (supervisors), Best student research paper (Winner), Data Analytics - 31st British International Conference on Databases.

  • William Griggs, Tom Thompson (supervisor), President’s Doctoral Scholarship award..

  • Henry Reeve, Gavin Brown (supervisor), Best Student Paper (Winner), European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN).

  • Siok Wah Tay, Deans Award.

2016

  • Kurt Junshean Espinosa, Sophia Ananiadou & Riza Batista-Navarro (supervisors), Named Entity Recognition in Twitter Shared Task (3rd Place), The 2nd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT).

  • Patrick Koopmann, Renate Schmidt (supervisor), E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize of outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information (Short listed).

  • Julia Mueller, Chris Todd, Caroline Jay, & Simon Harper (supervisors), W4A Travel Award, Web for All.

  • Nikos Nikolaou, Gavin Brown (supervisor), Notable Article of 2016, ACM Best of Computing.

  • Hao Zhou, Deans Award.

  • Efstathia Christopoulou, James Elson Award and Presidents Doctoral Scholarship.

2015

  • Julia Mueller, Chris Todd, Caroline Jay, & Simon Harper (supervisors), Best Poster Prize (Runner Up), British Psychological Society.

  • Nikos Nikolaou, Gavin Brown (supervisor), Best Poster (Winner), AERFAI Summer School.

  • Dongjiao Ge, Presidents Doctoral Scholarship.

  • Farideh Jalalinajafababi, 3MT People’s Choice Award.

  • Mahdi Jelodari Mamaghani, DATE best paper Award.

2014

  • Ilia Pietri, Rizos Sakellariou (supervisor), Best Poster Award (Winner), 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2014).

  • Kostas Sechidis, Gavin Brown (supervisor), Best Student Paper (Winner), European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML).

  • Ayesha Naureen, Deans Award.

  • Pin Shen Teh, Presidents Doctoral Scholarship.

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