Prizes & awards
UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering takes pride in recognising and celebrating outstanding academic achievements and contributions to the field.
Our exclusive prize ceremony gives award winners, guests, industry sponsors and school representatives the chance to reflect on their accomplishments during this special event.
UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering Awards
We’re proud to partner with a diverse range of industry groups and institutions to recognise the hard work and dedication of our students. Our annual awards include individual and group prizes.
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Prize Name
Winner Name
The Anita Borg Prize - 1st Place
Ada Luong The Anita Borg Prize - 2nd Place Aditi Nitturkar The Anita Borg Prize - 3rd Place Leonie Dickson The Optiver COMP6771 Prize Kenvin Yu The Ben Rudzyn Memorial Prize Giuliana De Bellis The Jane Street COMP3141 Prize - 1st Place Steve (Seongryeol) Jang The Jane Street COMP3141 Prize - 2nd Place Weijie Wang The Jane Street COMP3141 Prize - 3rd Place Tsun Wang Sau The ROKT COMP2041 Prize Jack Jinkui Li Autumn Compass COMP4128 Prize - 1st Place Cameron Leslie Nicholas McGowan Autumn Compass COMP4128 Prize - 2nd Place Amos Li Sheng Tan Autumn Compass COMP4128 Prize - 3rd Place Lewis Samuel Cullen The IMC COMP3121/3821 Prize - 1st Place Anders Shen-Wen Mah The IMC COMP3121/3821 Prize - 2nd Place Isaiah Lee-Han Iliffe The IMC COMP3121/3821 Prize - 3rd Place Bohan Wang The Displayr COMP4931 Prize - 1st Place Michael Arnold Cunanan The Jump Trading COMP3231/9201/3891/9283 Prize - 1st Place Joanna Lin The Jump Trading COMP3231/9201/3891/9283 Prize - 2nd Place Leighton Fan The Jump Trading COMP3231/9201/3891/9283 Prize - 3rd Place Trent Russell The Jump Trading COMP3222 Digital Circuits and Systems Prize Blake Morris Jane Street Comp3161 Prizes Anders Shen-Wen Mah Jane Street Comp3161 Prizes Xavier Cooney Jane Street Comp3161 Prizes Yasiru Jayasooriya Arista Networks COMP9242 Prize Patrick Hao Norman Foo Memorial Best Research Paper Prize Cong Cong The Optiver SENG3011 Group Prize Noa Challis
Emily Chiew
Jasmin Oren
Elisabeth Cola
Rahul Triparthi
Macquarie Prizes In Engineering Feiyue Ma
Kyle Wu
Lillian Thai
Wenjie Liu
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Prize Name
Winner Name
The Ben Rudzyn Memorial Prize
TBA
The Displayr Comp4931 Prize, 1st Place
Harrison Scott
Imc Pacific Comp3121, 1st Place
Joanna Lin
The Displayr Comp4931 Prize, 3rd Place
James Stevens
The Imc Pacific Comp3121 Prize, 2nd Place
James Balajan
The Imc Pacific Comp3121 Prize, 3rd Place
Ramachandran Kaniyur
The Macquarie Seng2021 Group Prize
AT3K Group: Arthur Wang; Kaivalya Soman; Katrina Ding; Kelly Zhou; Tim Zhang
Murray Allen Prize in Computer Science
Kevin Zhu
Norman Foo Memorial Best Research Paper Prize
David Nguyen
Optiver Prize
Sourdough group: Nikhil Ahuja; James Furlan; Sean Morota-Chu; Rue Teh; Aditya Kishore
The Anita Borg Prize
Giuliana De Bellis
The Thoughtworks Seng2011 Prize
Alex Brown
The Wargaming Sydney COMP3421 Prize
Rory Golledge
Jump Trading Australia Comp3231 Prizes
Zhizhou Ma
Jump Trading Australia Comp3231/9201/3891/9283 Prize, 2nd Place
Jason Sengmany
Jump Trading Australia Comp3231/9201/3891/9283 Prize, 3rd Place
Nanway Chan
Jump Operations Australia Comp3222 Digital Circuits and Systems Prize
Yuqi Fu
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Prize name Prize winners The Amadeus COMP9322 Prize Marhadiasha Kusumawardhana The Atlassian COMP2511, 1st Prize Jonathan Clark The Atlassian COMP2511, 2nd Prize Ray Clark Arista Networks COMP9242 Prize James Nugraha The Displayr COMP4931 Prize, 1st Place Vivian Dang The Displayr COMP4931 Prize, 2nd Prize Nicholas Malecki The Displayr COMP4931 Prize, 3rd Place Lucy Qiu The Hero of Operating Systems Prize Yu Hou The Jane Street COMP3141 Prize, 1st Place Sean Zammit The Jane Street COMP3141 Prize, 2nd Place Michael Gribben The Jane Street COMP3141 Prize, 3rd Place Nanway Chen The Jane Street COMP3161 Prize, 1st Place Chengyan Yao The Jane Street COMP3161 Prize, 2nd Place Ryan Fallah The Jane Street COMP3161 Prize, 3rd Place James Davidson The Jane Street COMP6752 Prize, 1st Place Courtney Darville The Jane Street COMP6752 Prize, 2nd Place Vincent Jackson The Jane Street COMP6752 Prize, 3rd Place Vivian Dang The Norman Foo Memorial Best Research Paper Prize Annette Spooner The Microsoft Performance Prize for Year 3, 1st Place Andrew Kaploun The Niel van der Westhuizen COMP4121 Prize Felix Lempriere The Optiver COMP6771 Prize Kevin Luxa The ROKT COMP2041 Prize Chengyan Yao The UpGuard COMP3411 Prize Ryan Barry The UpGuard COMP3511 Prize Kangying Lin The UpGuard COMP6714 Prize Xiaohan Zhu The UpGuard COMP9243 Prize Michael Gribben The UpGuard COMP9319 Prize Andrew Kaploun The UpGuard COMP9444 Prize Aaron Blackwell The Wargaming Sydney COMP6741 Prize Ian Dunkerley The Optiver SENG3011 Group Prize
Sophie Collins
Thomas Lo
Erin Moss
Madison Phillips
Michelle SeetoThe Murray Allen Prize in Computer Science Benjamin Sho The Anita Borg Prize - 1st Prize Gabrielle Younes The Anita Borg Prize - 2nd Prize Amy Zhou The Macquarie Seng2021 Group Prize
Alexander Georges
Veeraj Sharma
Allen Wu
Monica He
Sheina Tengara -
Prize Name
Winner Name
Amadeus COMP9322 Prize
Ho Kim
Atlassian COMP2511 – 1st Place
Nanway Chen
Atlassian COMP2511 – 2nd Place
Ethan Brown
Atlassian COMP2521 – 1st Place
Tim Zhang
Atlassian COMP2521 – 2nd Place
Ya-Ting Chang
Google Third Year Prize
Yifan He
Murray Allen Prize For Computer Science
Emily Chen
Niel Van Der Westhuizen COMP4121 Prize
Ethan Brown
Norman Foo Memorial Best Research Paper Prize
Qian Ge
Palantir Technologies Prize
Yu Liu
QuantumLinx COMP2111 Prize
Kenvin Yu
ROKT COMP2041 Prize
Oscar Cowdery Lack
The Anita Borg Award
Annie Liu
The Ben Rudzyn Memorial COMP2121 – Term 1 Prize
Mike Liu
The Ben Rudzyn Memorial COMP2121 – Term 2 Prize
Michael Zhang
The Department Of Defence, Graduate Office COMP3331 Term 1 Prize
Chun-Chu Chen
The Displayr COMP4931 Prize – 1st Place
Jessica Theodosius
The Displayr COMP4931 Prize – 2nd Place
Emmet Murray
The Displayr COMP4931 Prize – 3rd Place
Ryan Barry
The Exablaze COMP3222 Digital Circuits And Systems Prize
Matthew Turner
Imc Pacific COMP3121 Prize – 1st Place
Antoni Dimitriadis
Imc Pacific COMP3121 Prize – 2nd Place
Kevin Zhu
Imc Pacific COMP3121 Prize – 3rd Place
Trung Do
The Jane Street COMP3141 Prize – 1st Place
Ramachandran Sundareswaran Kaniyur
The Jane Street COMP3141 Prize – 2nd Place
Harrison Scott
The Jane Street COMP3141 Prize – 3rd Place
Xue Zhong
The Jane Street COMP3161 Prize – 1st Place
Sidney Pham
The Jane Street COMP3161 Prize – 2nd Place
Madeleine Abed
The Jane Street COMP3161 Prize – 3rd Place
Shaobo Zhuang
The Macquarie Performance Prize For Year 1 – 1st Place
Zac Kologlu
The Macquarie Performance Prize for Year 1 – 2nd Place
Hayes Choy
The Macquarie Performance Prize for Year 1 – 3rd Place
Mrinaank Sinha
The Macquarie Performance Prize For Year 2 – 1st Place
Xuan Yi
The Macquarie Performance Prize for Year 2 – 2nd Place
Ramachandran Sundareswaran Kaniyur
The Macquarie Performance Prize for Year 2 – 3rd Place
Oscar Winton
Cowdery Lack
The Metamako/Arista COMP9242 Prize
Matthew Phillips
The Recruit Holdings COMP4128
Yifan He
The Wargaming Sydney COMP3421 Prize
Zhenyu Yao
The Wargaming Sydney COMP6741 Prize
Madeleine Kyng
The WiseTech Global COMP4001 Prize
Brittany Evat
SENG2011 Prize – ThoughtWorks
Debao Jian
Jack Callander
Heather Cox
Richard Liu
Wei Chen
SENG2021 Prize – Macquarie Group
David Nichani
Junkuan Wang
Mitchell Johnston
Stephanie Gouw
Wan Hern Ching
SENG3011 Prize – Optiver
Andi Yao
Dennis Gann
Harrison Scott
Terry Agapitos
SENG3011 Runner up Prize – Optiver
Anqi Zhu
Amir Harambasic
Matthew Ta
Phalla Ratanak Kim
Ryan Barry
Usman Haidar
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Ben Rudzyn Memorial Prize
In recognition of the life of Ben Rudzyn and his commitment to UNSW’s wider community, and for his contribution to both computing and biomedical engineering at UNSW, the CSE School has established "The Ben Rudzyn Memorial Prize".
This Prize recognizes the outstanding achievements of a student (undergraduate or postgraduate) in the School of Computer Science and Engineering who has been enrolled here for at least (2 years or 6 terms).
About Ben Rudzyn
Ben Rudzyn was the 2006 University Medallist for Computer Engineering. He was an outstanding student who arrived at UNSW in 2001 from North Sydney Boys High, completed a Bachelor of Computer Engineering and Masters in Biomedical Engineering over the next five years and earned a series of scholarships and awards. He also participated in International Exchange at the University of Toronto, Canada. Among his academic coups Ben developed a groundbreaking robot audition system for his undergraduate thesis.
Ben epitomised the true meaning of friendship. He highly valued the sense of community spirit at UNSW, volunteering however and whenever he could and also wholeheartedly participating in whatever social opportunities were on offer (such as Yellow Shirts/O Week, Uni Reviews, Clubs, Open Days, Student Representative, and mentoring.) He is remembered for his quick wit, his sense of humor, his honesty, his compassion and his care of others.
After graduation, his software development talents excelled in his career as a Research and Development Engineer at Australian Hearing’s National Acoustic Laboratory.
Everything Ben was working towards ended a few days before Christmas 2008 when his life was tragically taken by the actions of an inebriated, unlicensed, unregistered driver. Ben was 26 years old.
Eligibility
To be eligible for the Prize, students must be enrolled in any degree program in that year (undergraduate or postgraduate), offered by the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the time of application and have been a student in UNSW for at least 2 years or 6 terms.
Selection criteria
The annual prize is to be awarded on the following basis:
- Contribution to the promotion or enhancement of the benefits of computing to society
- Demonstrated use of computing to improve health, wellbeing or through the development or use of medical devices. (This might be through coursework, project work, internships, or volunteering activities)
- Contribution to the wider computer science and engineering community through activities which enhance the student experience (e.g. volunteering in student societies, serving as a student representative, creation of new activities for others e.g. mentoring programs, leading hackathons, workshop development, networking events, skills development events etc.)
- Meritorious academic performance in their studies to date, including outstanding performance in the field of computing and/or biomedical engineering.
Application requirements
Applicants will be expected to submit a one-page document detailing how they meet the selection criteria and to demonstrate high levels of excellence in most, if not all of the criteria.
The selection panel reserves the right not to award this prize in a given year. Applicants may be interviewed as part of this awards process and their application may be provided to the external award sponsors as part of the evaluation process.
Application closing date
Applications will close at 5pm at the end of flexibility week (typically week 6 of Term 1) in each year.
Nominations should address the selection criteria, and must be sent to cse.sm@unsw.edu.au.
Prize $1,000
Previous Ben Rudzyn Memorial Award winners
Prize Year Name 2019 Liu, Mike - term 1
Zhang, Michael - term 2
2022 De Bellis, Giuliana - Contribution to the promotion or enhancement of the benefits of computing to society
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