Congratulations to Andrew Gordon Wilson, a research student in the Department of Engineering’s Machine Learning Group, who has won a £10,000 award for his PhD dissertation.
Alumnus Dr David Coates has been awarded the IMechE Award for Risk Reduction in Mechanical Engineering for “outstanding contributions in the field of nuclear safety.”
The Automatic Statistician, a project led by Zoubin Ghahramani, Professor of Information Engineering, has won a US$750,000 Google Focused Research Award.
Cambridge Engineering alumnus and Microsoft Research Cambridge Laboratory Director, Professor Andrew Blake, gave the prestigious American Mathematical Society Gibbs Lecture.
Professor Kenichi Soga was invited by the Council of the Italian Geotechnical Association (AGI) to deliver the annual Croce Lecture at the Italian National Research Council in Rome.
Alumni Jonathan Bassett and Sam Cocks are working for SELCO Foundation providing solar powered lighting systems for people in unelectrified or under-electrified regions in India.