Past Award Recipients
CORE Prize Winners
John Hughes Distinguished Service Award (previously Distinguished Service Award)
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
Distinguished Service Award
2009: Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne
2007 Karl Reed, La Trobe University
2004 Gopal Gupta, Monash University
CORE Teaching Award
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
Chris Wallace Research Excellence Award
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
John Makepeace Bennett Award for Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation (with links to theses where available).
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 - Commended-
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 - Commended -
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.