Past Award Recipients

CORE Distinguished Service Award 

• • 2025 Alan Fekete, University of Sydney - Citation

  • 2024 John Grundy, Monash University - Citation

  • 2023 Gillian Dobbie, University of Auckland  - Citation

Prior to 2023 this award was known as the John Hughes Distinguished Service Award

• • 2022 Steve MacDonell, University of Auckland  - Citation

  • 2021  Chris Johnson, ANU - Citation

  • 2019  Lin Padgham, RMIT - Citation

  • 2017: Justin Zobel, University of Melbourne and Katrina Falkner, University of Adelaide - Citations

  • 2015: Leon Sterling, Swinburne University of Technology

  • 2013: Mark Apperley, University of Waikato

  • 2011: David Abramson, Monash University

  • 2009: Jenny Edwards, UTS

Prior to 2009 this award was known as the Distinguished Service Award

• • 2009: Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne   

  • 2007  Karl Reed, La Trobe University

  • 2004  Gopal Gupta, Monash University

CORE Teaching Awards

In 2025 CORE introduced a second award: CORE Teaching Award Early Career

• • 2025: General Award: Nicole Herbert, UTAS - Citation

  • 2025: Early Career Award: Shaanan Cohney, University of Melbourne - Citation

  • 2024: Jacqueline Whalley, Auckland University of Technology - Citation

  • 2024 Commendation: Richard Lai, La Trobe University - Citation

  • 2023: Chris MacDonald, University of Western Australia - Citation

  • 2022: David Chen, Griffith University - Citation

  • 2021: Julia Prior, University of Technology Sydney - Citation

  • 2020: Andrew Luxton- Reilly, University of Auckland - Citation

  • 2019: No Award

  • 2018: Antonette Mendoza, University of Melbourne - Citation

  • 2017: Sven Venema, Griffith University - Citation

  • 2016: Geraldine Torrisi-Steele, Griffith University   - Citation

  • 2014: Claudia Szabo, University of Adelaide

  • 2011: Warwick Irwin, University of Canterbury

  • 2010: Paul Denny, University of Auckland

  • 2008: Judy Kay, University of Sydney

  • 2007: Harald Søndergaard, University of Melbourne

CORE Award for Outstanding Research Contribution

• • 2025 Jia Wu, Macquarie University - Citation

  • 2025 Commendation.  Olya Ohrimenko, University of Melbourne - Citation

  • 2024: Tongliang Liu, University of Sydney - Citation

  • 2023: Lina Yao, University of  New South Wales - Citation
    
    

Prior to 2023 this award was known Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research Contribution

• • 2022: Nengkun Yu, University of Technology Sydney - Citation

  • 2021: Zhifeng Bao, RMIT University - Citation

  • 2020: Yuval Yarom, University of Adelaide - Citation

  • 2019: Wenjie Zhang, UNSW - Citation

  • 2018: Lexing Xie, Australian National University - Citation

  • 2017: Haris Aziz, Data61 and UNS - Citation

  • 2016: Helen Huang, University of Queensland - Citation

• 2015: Rui Zhang, University of Melbourne

• 2014: James Curran, University of Sydney

• 2013: Sebastian Link, University of Auckland

• 2012: Dr Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide

• 2010: Dr Heng Tao Shen, University of Queensland

• 2009: Andy Cockburn, University of Canterbury

• 2008: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne

• 2006: Dr Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney

• 2005: Dr David Hawking, CSIRO

• 2004: Dr Huaxiong Wang, Macquarie University

CORE Award for the Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation 

• 2025 Bojie Shen, Monash University, Advances in Pathfinding Algorithms for Games, Route Planning Software, and Automated Warehouses - Citation

• 2025 Commendation, Minjing Dong, Boosting Adversarial Robustness via Neural Architecture Search and Design - Citation
  
  

• 2024 Angus Hugh Dempster, Scalable Methods for Time Series Classification, Monash University Department of Data Science and AI - Citation

• 2024 Commendations

  • Caitlin Doogan, A Topic is Not a Theme: Towards a Contextualised Approach to Topic Modelling Monash University School of Computer Science and Software Engineering  - Citation

  • Mengyan Zhang, Adaptive Recommendations with Bandit Feedback, Australian National University  - Citation
    
    

• 2023 Yannan Li, Contributions to Blockchain-based Security Protocols, University of Wollongong - Citation

• 2023 Commendations

  • Ben Volmer Spatial Augmented Reality Predictive Cues for Improving Task Performance and Reducing Mental Effort, University of South Australia - Citation

  • Nitika Mathur, Robustness in machine Translation Evaluation, University of Melbourne - Citation

Prior to 2023 this award was known as the John Makepeace Bennett Award for Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation

• 2022 Natasha Fernandes, Differential Privacy for Metric Spaces: Information-Theoretic Models for Privacy and Utility with New Applications to Metric Domains, Macquarie University - Citation

• 2021 Oana Balmau , "Redesigning Persistent Key-Value Stores for Future Workloads, Hardware and Performance Requirements" The University of Sydney - Citation

• 2021 Liam O’Connor, "Type Systems for Systems Types", University ofNew South Wales - Citation

• 2020 James Baumeister, “Towards Consistent Measurement of Cognitive Load in Augmented Reality Research”, University of South Australia - Citation

• 2019 Thomas Sewell, “Translation Validation for Verified, Efficient and Timely Operating Systems”, UNSW - Citation

• 2019 Commendations

  • Neven A. M. ElSayed, “Situated Analytics”, University of South Australia  - Citation

  • Siqi Liu, “Automating the Reconstruction of Neuron Morphological Models: The Rivulet Algorithm Suite”, University of Sydney - Citation

• 2018 Junhao Gan, “High Performance Density-Based Clustering on Massive data”, University of Queensland - Citation

• 2017 Sara Khalifa, “Energy-Efficient Human Activity Recognition for Self-powered Wearable Devices”, UNSW - Citation

• 2017 Commendations

  • Zhe Hou, “Labelled Sequent Calculi and Automated Reasoning for Assertions in Separation Log”,  Australian National University - Citation

• 2016 Joey Scarr, “Understanding and Exploiting Spatial Memory in the Design of Efficient Command Selection Interfaces”, University of Canterbury - Citation

• 2015 - Haris Javaid, “Analyses and Optimizations for Pipelined MPSoCs”, UNSW.

• 2014 - Bernhard Blackham, “Towards verified microkernels for real-time mixed-criticality systems”, UNSW.

• 2013 - Richard Kennard “Derivation of a general purpose architecture for automatic user interface generation” University of Technology, Sydney.

• 2012 - Silvia Richter “Landmark-based Heuristics and Search Control for Automated Planning, contributes to improvements in the efficiency of planning systems” Griffith University.

Prior to 2012, this award was known as the Australasian Distinguished Dissertation Award.

• 2011- Daniel Frampton “Garbage Collection and the Case for High-level Low-level Programming”, Australian National University.

• 2011 - Commended

  • David Milne “Applying Wikipedia to Interactive Information Retrieval” University of Waikato.

• • • Joseph Troy Lizier “The local information dynamics of distributed computation in complex systems”, University of Sydney.    

• 2010 - Michael Cahill “Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases”, University of Sydney.

  • 2009 - Michael Hill “Multi-Dimensional Numerical Integration Using Sequences of Embedded Lattices”, La Trobe University.

  • 2008 - Bernard Pope “A declarative debugger for Haskell”, University of Melbourne. Supervisors Lee Nash and Harald Søndergaard.

  • 2008 - Michael Wybrow “Using semi-automatic layout to improve the usability of diagramming software”, Monash University.

  • 2007-  Ajmal Mian “Representations and Matching Techniques for 3D Free-Form Object and Face Recognition”, University of Western Australia.

  • 2007 - Nicholas Geard “Artificial Ontogenies: A Computational Model of the Control and Evolution of Development”,University of Queensland.

  • 2006-  Kwong Yuen Lai “Caching Techniques for Mobile Computing in Wireless Environments”, RMIT University. Supervisors, Zahir Tari and Peter Bertok.

  • 2005 - Caroline Linda Allinson “Legislative and Security Requirements of Audit Material for Evidentiary Purpose”, Queensland University of Technology. Supervisor Bill Caelli.

  • 2005 - Shane Saunders “Improved Shortest Path Algorithms for Nearly Acyclic Graphs”, University of Canterbury. Supervisor Tadao Takaoka.

  • 2004 - James Brusey, “Learning Behaviours for Robot Soccer”, RMIT. Supervisors Lin Padgham and Vic Ciesielski.

  • 2003 - Carsten Freidrich, “Animation in Relational Information Visualization”, University of Sydney. Supervisor Peter Eades.

  • 2002 - Einat Amitay, “What lays in the layout: Using anchor-paragraph arrangements to extract descriptions of web documents”, Macquarie University. Supervisors Michael Johnson, Cecile Paris.

  • 2002 - Tao Chen, Monash University, Supervisor Henry Wu.

  • 2001 - Wenny J. Rahayu, “Object-relational Transformation Methodology”, La Trobe University. Supervisors Elizabeth Chang, Tharam Dillon.

  • 2000 - Michael Kolling, “The design of an object-oriented environment and language for teaching”, University of Sydney. Supervisor John Rosenberg.

  • 1999 - Alan Roberts “Routing on Trees Under the Matching Model”. Supervisor Antonios Symvonis.

  • 1998 - Wendy Feng, “Algorithms for Drawing Clustered Graphs”, University of Newcastle. Supervisor Peter Eades.

  • 1997 - Mark Lauer, “Designing Statistical Language Learners: Experiments on Noun Compounds”, Macquarie University. Supervisors Michael Johnson, Robert Dale.

  • 1996 - Matthew Regan “Delayed Viewport Mapping and priority Rendering forVirtual Reality Display System”, Monash University and

  • 1996 - Roland Yap “The Design, Programming Methodology and Implementation of CLP(R)”, Monash University.

  • 1995 - Mary-Anne Williams “Transmutations of Knowledge Systems”, University of Sydney.