
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.
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.
Prize Name |
Winner Name |
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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 |
Prize Name |
Winner Name |
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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 |
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 Seeto |
The 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 |
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).
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.
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.
The annual prize is to be awarded on the following basis:
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.
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
Prize Year | Name |
2019 | Liu, Mike - term 1 Zhang, Michael - term 2 |
2022 | De Bellis, Giuliana |