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Celebrating Academic Excellence at the CSIT Best Paper Award & Student Prizes 2024

On Monday April 22, the School of Computer Science & Information Technology (CSIT) hosted its annual Best Paper Award and Student Prizes Ceremony. The School was delighted to acknowledge the academic achievements of our students. Congratulations to all of the winners!

Below is a list of prize sponsors and recipients:

Prize Title	Supported by	Winning Student	Supervisor
CSIT Best Paper Award	School	Mohamed Seliem	Professor Dirk Pesch & Dr Ahmed Zahran
Joseph Manning Excellence Award, First Year Computer Science	The Manning Family	Aleksandyr Berdin
Academic Achievement Award supported by Qualcomm UK, First Year Data Science and Analytics	Qualcomm UK	Swithin Pais
Academic Achievement Award supported by Qualcomm UK, Second Year Computer Science	Qualcomm UK	David Brett
Academic Achievement Award supported by Qualcomm UK, Second Year Data Science and Analytics	Qualcomm UK	Naoise Daly
Academic Achievement Award supported by Qualcomm UK, Third Year Computer Science	Qualcomm UK	Artem Tiupin
Academic Achievement Award supported by Qualcomm UK, Third Year Data Science and Analytics	Qualcomm UK	Evan Reardon
Academic Achievement Award supported by Qualcomm UK, Fourth Year Computer Science	Qualcomm UK	Paul Caffery
Academic Achievement Award supported by Qualcomm UK, Fourth Year Data Science and Analytics	Qualcomm UK	Áine Ginty
Excellence in Data Science and Analytics Award, supported by KPMG 2nd year, Semester 1	KPMG	Fionn Carmody
Award for Best Software Project, supported by SIG (group project)	SIG	Marian Angeles Mendoza, Liam Timothy Healy, Amy Marie Craven, Jack O'Sullivan, Luca Clemens Gahan	Lecturer, Dr Klass-Jan Stol
axisBIC Entrepreneurship Awards, First Place	axisBIC	Gillian O'Donnell	Professor Gregory Provan
axisBIC Entrepreneurship Awards, Second Place	axisBIC	Timothy McGrath	Professor Cormac Sreenan
axisBIC Entrepreneurship Awards, Third Place	axisBIC	Sharon Coffee	Cathal Hoare
Huawei TECH4Her Scholarship Programme Supporting Women in STEM	Huawei	Zainab Baker, Anna Kramar, Maria Bovenizer, Yachitra Siulyn Sivakumar, Monica Alberti, Gillian Mary O'Donnell, Bebhinn Lombard, Mili Matilda, Barbora Soukupová, Yihan Zhu
Fidelity Investments Award	Fidelity Investments	Jack O'Meara, Zainab Baker	Dr. Sabin Tabirca, Mr. David Murphy
Keelvar Award, BSc in Data Science Final Year Project	Keelvar	Luke Power	Dr. Krishnendu Guha
Horner APG Award, BA in Digital Humanities and Information Technology Final Year Project	Horner APG	Hannah Szanto	Mr. David Murphy
ALLSORTER Award, BA in Digital Humanities and Information Technology Final Year Project	ALLSORTER	Harry O'Callaghan	Dr. James O'Sullivan
SkillsBase Award, BSc in Computer Science Final Year Project	SkillsBase	Jack O'Meara	Dr. Sabin Tabirca

Photo collage of photos taken during the Best Paper Awards. The winner, Mohamed Seliem, is pictured giving his presentation on his winning papaer,

Pictured left: Mohamed Seliem presents his paper "Delay analysis of TSN based industrial networks with preemptive traffic using network calculus" which was awarded Best Student Paper 2023. Mohamed Seliem photographed with supervisors Dr Ahmed Zahranand Professor Dirk Pesch and Head of School Professor Utz Roedig

Winners of the Huawei Prize 2024

Pictured right: Well done to the winners of the Huawei TECH4Her Scholarship Programme Supporting Women in STEM: Zainab Baker, Anna Kramar, Maria Bovenizer, Yachitra Siulyn Sivakumar, Monica Alberti, Gillian Mary O'Donnell, Bebhinn Lombard, Mili Matilda, Barbora Soukupová, Yihan Zhu

Photo collage of the Final Year Project winners at the CSIT Awards Day 2024

Pictured left (clockwise from bottom left): Jack O’Meara receives the BSc Computer Science BSc Final Year Project Prize, supported by SkillsBase. Hannah Szanto is awarded the BA Digital Humanities & Information Technology Final Year Project Prize, supported by Horner APG. Harry O’Callaghan is presented with the BA Digital Humanities & Information Technology Final Year Project Prize, supported by ALLSORTER. Luke Power is presented with the BSc Data Science and Analytics Final Year Project Prize, supported by Keelvar.

collage of 4 wining groups: Joseph Manning Prize, Best Software Group Project, Academic Achievement Awards supported by Qualcomm UK, FYP Fidelity Prize Winners

Pictured right (clockwise from bottom left): Jack O’Meara and Zainab Baker both receive the Fidelity Investments award for their Final Year Projects. Aleksandyr Berdin is honored with the Joseph Manning Excellence Award in First Year Computer Science BSc.

The winners of the Best Software Project, supported by SIG, are awarded their prize: Liam Timothy Healy, Amy Marie Craven, Marian Angeles Mendoza, Luca Clemens Gahan, and Jack O’Sullivan.

The recipients of the Academic Achievement Awards, supported by Qualcomm UK, are as follows: BSc Data Science and Analytics, First Year: Swithin Pais BSc Computer Science, Second Year: David Brett BSc Data Science and Analytics, Second Year: Naoise Daly BSc Computer Science, Third Year: Artem Tiupin BSc Data Science and Analytics, Third Year: Evan Reardon BSc Computer Science, Fourth Year: Paul Caffery BSc Data Science and Analytics, Fourth Year: Áine Ginty

Pictured left (clockwise from bottom-left): Zainab Baker and Hannah Szanto pictured with their Final Year Project Supervisor David Murphy. Fionn Carmody is awarded the Excellence in Data Science and Analytics Award, supported by KPMG 2nd year, Semester 1, by Carol Kreegan of KPMG. Swithin Pais winner of the Excellence in Data Science and Analytics Award in First Year, Supported by Qualcomm UK. Luke Power, winner of BSc Data Science and Analytics Award Final Year Project Prize, Supported by Keelvar, is pictured with his project supervisor Dr Krishnendu Guha

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