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. 

2025 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

Alan Fekete, University of Sydney - Citation

CORE Award for Outstanding Research Contribution 

Jia Wu, Macquarie University - Citation

Commendation:  Olya Ohrimenko, University of Melbourne - Citation

CORE Teaching Awards

General Award: Nicole Herbert, University of Tasmania - Citation

Early Career Award: Shaanan Cohney, University of Melbourne - Citation

CORE Award for the Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation

Bojie Shen, Monash University, Advances in Pathfinding Algorithms for Games, Route Planning Software, and Automated Warehouses - Citation

Commendation, Minjing Dong, University of Sydney, Boosting Adversarial Robustness via Neural Architecture Search and Design - Citation