Category Archives: Awards and honours

Congratulations to first-year computer science undergraduate Jonathan Millican, who has been named the UK’s ‘Cyber Security Champion‘ following a competition sponsored by GCHQ and other industry heavyweights. Jonathan saw off competition from more than 30 other finalists in the competition … Continue reading →

Congratulations to both Cecilia Mascolo and Andreas Bulling, who have received Google Research Awards for 2011. The Google awards program supports academic research aimed at improving information access. Dr Mascolo’s research is in the area of Social Networks, while Dr … Continue reading →

Professor Glynn Winskel has been elected to the Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Congratulations to Dan Greenfield, who has won the BCS Distinguished Dissertation prize 2011. Dan completed his PhD under the supervision of Dr Simon Moore.

Lech Świrski and Christian Richardt, PhD students in the Graphics & Interaction Group, won the ACM Student Research Competition at SIGGRAPH 2011 with their poster “Layered Photo Pop-Up’, based on Lech’s 2011 MPhil project. For details of the research see: … Continue reading →

Professors  John Daugman and Neil Dodgson have been elected Fellows of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. The honour recognised their ‘personal contribution to the advancement of mathematics as a discipline and as a profession’.