CORE currently offers the following awards in the area of Computer Science.  Please see individual award pages for details including submission deadlines.

The CORE Teaching Awards

The CORE award for the Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation 

The CORE award for outstanding Research Contribution 

The CORE Distinguished Service Award

Best Student Papers at ACSW

The CORE Academy is also established to honour and recognise individuals who have made significant and cumulative contributions to the development of the computing disciplines in Australasia. 

The 2026 Awards will be presented at ACSW 2026. 

2026 Awards

We congratulate the following for their excellent achievements. 

Click here for a list of Past Award recipients and their citations.

CORE Distinguished Service Award

Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne - Citation

CORE Award for Outstanding Research Contribution 

Xin Yu, University of Queensland - Citation

Commendation:  Chang Xu, University of Sydney - Citation

CORE Teaching Awards

General Award:  Charanya Ramakrishnan, Macquarie University - Citation

Early Career Award: Jack Li, Deakin University - Citation

CORE Award for the Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation

Xin Zheng, Monash University,
Automated Graph Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) Workflow - Citation

Commendation, Jianyuan Guo, University of Sydney,
Neural Architecture Design and Compression for Efficient Vision Perception  - Citation

Commendation, Cody Lewis, University of Newcastle,
On the Security and Robustness of Federated Learning with Application to the Smart Grid Infrastructure - Citation