News from the Department: awards
National Cyber Award for our Professor of Emergent Harms
29 September 2026
Many congratulations to our colleague Prof Alice Hutchings, who was honoured with The Alan Turing Cyber Leadership Award yesterday (28 September) at the National Cyber Awards 2026. More …
A Blue Plaque for EDSAC – Cambridge University’s pioneering first computer
23 June 2026
A blue plaque was unveiled in this Department today, 23 June 2026, to commemorate the development of EDSAC, a landmark event in the history of modern computing. (See a video of the full unveiling ceremony here.) More …
OBE for leader in computing education
13 June 2026
Many congratulations to our colleague Professor Sue Sentance who has been awarded an OBE in the 2026 King’s Birthday Honours! She is recognised for her services to education. More …
Royal Society Fellowships honour two Computer Scientists
26 May 2026
A Royal Society Fellowship is an accolade awarded to pioneers and leaders in their scientific fields. Anuj is a theoretician who has developed new methods to study computational complexity. Keshav is a researcher passionate about using our computational capabilities to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. More …
'Test of Time' Award for research into why we can't do without passwords
18 May 2026
Passwords are irritating to manage and can be a weak link in security. Yet they still play a key role in protecting our online identities. Now, research explaining why we're still using them and why they're so difficult to replace has won a prestigious award... 14 years after it was first published. More …
Celebrating a 'culture of innovation' at our Hall of Fame Awards
16 April 2026
A semiconductor company distinguished for its rapid growth and the important role it plays in the open hardware movement; a research team turning ordinary earbuds into health sensors; an advance in the field of AI-assisted drug discovery; and a tool used by millions of developers to build, share and run software stacks. More …
Student-designed technology aids beekeepers and blind learners
18 March 2026
An app that assists beekeepers in identifying sick bees, and an open-source tool to help blind people learn how to program from scratch, were two of the winning Group Design Projects created by second-year students this year. More …
Google Fellowship highlights 'unloved' AI research field
3 November 2025
A PhD student who would like to encourage more researchers into his – currently under-explored – area of AI research is delighted to have won the support of Google. More …
Professor Emily Shuckburgh appointed Chief Scientific Adviser
22 October 2025
Professor Emily Shuckburgh has been appointed as the new Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). More …
Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship honours Professor of Mobile Systems
22 September 2025
Prof Cecilia Mascolo has just been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. She is one of 74 leading figures in the field of engineering and technology to be elected to the Academy Fellowship this year. More …
A summer of accolades for our researchers
18 September 2025
Research by Department members was honoured by several leading conferences and organisations in August. More …
King’s Birthday Honours for two Department members
14 June 2025
Two members of our Department are among those featured in the King's Birthday Honours 2025, which recognises the achievements and contributions of people across the UK. More …
Colleagues' achievements recognised with Senior Academic Promotions
11 June 2025
Congratulations to the three members of this Department who have been promoted as Professor. More …
Royal Society Fellowship honours Theoretical Computer Scientist
20 May 2025
Our colleague Professor Andrew Pitts has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, it was announced today (Tuesday 20 May 2025). More …
Recognition for "significant achievements in computing"
12 February 2025
Congratulations to Prof Cecilia Mascolo who has today been named a 2024 ACM Distinguished Member. This accolade is awarded to computer scientists "for significant achievements in computing beyond the norm". More …
Lovelace Medal for Dr Sue Sentance
24 October 2024
Many congratulations to our colleague Dr Sue Sentance, Director of the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre here. She has just been awarded the BCS Lovelace Medal 2024. More …
Nobel Prize for our alumnus Sir Demis Hassabis
9 October 2024
"The reason I've worked on AI my whole life is that I'm passionate about science and finding out knowledge, and I've always thought if we could build AI in the right way, it could be the ultimate tool to help scientists, help us explore the universe around us. I hope AlphaFold is a first example of that." More …
Celebrating at our Hall of Fame Awards
19 April 2024
A world-leading British semiconductor company; a project investigating how robots could help boost our mental wellbeing; an email app so fast it promises to give users four hours back a week; and leading research into deterministic parsing. These are the winners of our annual Hall of Fame Awards, which were presented on Thursday 18 April in a ceremony at Queens' College. More …
Students' Group Design Projects enjoy success
14 March 2024
Our second-year undergraduates exhibited their Group Design Projects this week. And their success in addressing the challenges they were set impressed the external companies and clients they were working for. More …
Mobile health-monitoring device wins ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant
27 July 2023
Many congratulations to Cecilia Mascolo, Professor of Mobile Systems here, who has won an ERC Proof of Concept grant 2023. More …
Researcher receives 'Test of Time' Award for her work on data stream processing
17 July 2023
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) – the world's largest association of computing professionals – has honoured a researcher here for her work on the efficient use of cloud resources for data stream processing. More …
Award for advancing the sensing capabilities of in-ear devices
11 July 2023
A researcher into the use of wearable devices for health monitoring has just won the 2023 ACM SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Runner-up Award. More …
Professorial promotions for six of our colleagues
19 June 2023
Pictured above, from left to right: Alice Hutchings, Neel Krishnaswami, Cengiz Oztireli, Hatice Gunes, Rafal Mantiuk and Rob Mullins. More …
ACM Programming Languages Software Award goes to OCaml researchers
19 June 2023
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's largest association of computing professionals, today gave the 2023 SIGPLAN Award to a group of developers for their work on the functional programming language OCaml. More …
'Stand-out' dissertation receives ACM award
24 May 2023
Many congratulations to Research Fellow Conrad Watt whose PhD dissertation today received an Honourable Mention for the 2022 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. More …
Professor elected to Royal Society Fellowship
9 May 2023
Our colleague Professor Peter Sewell has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, it was announced today (Wednesday 10 May 2023). More …
Deep Gaussian Processes paper wins AISTATS Test of Time Award
26 April 2023
For their paper on Deep Gaussian Processes, our colleague Professor Neil Lawrence and his former PhD student Dr Andreas Damianou have today won the AISTATS 2023 'Test of Time' Award. More …
Presenting the 2022 Hall of Fame Awards
20 April 2023
A company aiming to 'invent the way humanity interacts with AI'; a project investigating if we can identify patients with Alzheimer’s disease by using GPS to track how well they navigate their way round their local area; a platform offering a unified approach to federated learning; and a research centre scaling up the supply of deforestation-avoidance carbon credits to help tackle tropical deforestation. More …
Getting ready to welcome two new Gates Scholars
17 April 2023
We look forward to welcoming Gates Scholars 2023 Anais Berkes and Gregor Feierabend when they join us later this year! More …
Researchers named joint winners of UK-US challenge to detect financial crime
4 April 2023
A team led by Professor Nic Lane has been announced as joint winner of a prize to drive ‘innovation in privacy-enhancing technologies that reinforce democratic values’ for its work on tackling international money laundering. More …
ERC grant for work on making our data and systems SAFER from malicious attacks
30 March 2023
Congratulations to Professor Peter Sewell who was today awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his project 'SAFER' – 'Secure Foundations: Verified Systems Software Above Full-Scale Integrated Semantics'. More …
Student wins award for work on pioneering cybersecurity technology
30 January 2023
An undergraduate working on a pioneering new way to make our digital devices more secure has become the third student to win the annual Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers' Award for Excellence and Achievement in Computer Hardware. More …
Federated learning tool wins ERC Proof of Concept grant
24 January 2023
Congratulations to Nic Lane, Professor of Machine Learning Systems here, who has won an ERC Proof of Concept grant 2022. More …