.. _extawards: ***************************************** 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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