Student and Post-Doctoral Fellow Awards, Prizes and Accomplishments

Students and Post-Doctoral Fellows that I advise have been awarded a wide range of National and International competitive Fellowships, Awards and Prizes, including the following:

2021

  1. National Champions and World Championship National Representative, Enactus UNSW, Faculty Advisor
  2. Reigning World Champions, International RoboCup Social Robotics, Team Leader
2020
  1. Reigning World Champions, International RoboCup Social Robotics, Team Leader.

2019

    1. OECD 2019-2020 Fellowship Future of Work: Nik Dawson, PhD Student.
    2. World Champion International RoboCup Social Robotics @Home First Place World Championship, Team Leader
    3. WiseTech Global Partnership - RoboCup Team Sponsorship 
    4. NSW Department of Industry, Research Attraction and Acceleration Program (RAAP)
    5. Moving Hackathon: Full-sized Self-driving Car Onsite Challenge, China: Sammy Pfieffer, PhD Student
    6. 2019 Women in Engineering Award: Meg Tonkin, PhD Student and Sarita Herse, PhD Student

    2018

    1. The French National Centre for Scientific Research Innovation Medal, Postdoctoral Fellow, Daniel Le Berre - the first computer scientist to win this prestigious medal.
    2. Heidelberg Laureate Fellowship, Australian Academy of Science, PhD Student Chand Gudi.
    3. ASEAN Cybersecurity Challenge Codeathon, Magic Lab Team
    4. Venture Day Winner, PhD Student Mahya Knox
    5. Sponsorship to Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*) in New York City PhD Student Nik Dawson
    6. Atlassian Sponsorship to Singularity University Summit PhD Student Sarita Herse.
    7. Second Place in the Social Robot League, UTS Unleashed!
    8. RoboCup Social Robotics @Home League Qualification, UTS Unleashed!
    9. Open Source Self Driving Platform Hackathon, Top 10 Global Engineers selected, PhD Student Samuel Pfeiffer
    10. United Nations, Research Post PhD StudentNik Dawson
    11. Heidelberg Laureate Forum Fellowship, Australian Academy of Science, Chand Gudi. Invited to attend the Heidelberg Laureate Forum for meeting Nobel Laureates, Germany (top Computer Science Students globally).
    12. OpenFog Hackathon Invitation, Shanghai, China. Chand Gudi
    13. Yara Open Innovation Challenge. Chand Gudi Finalist, Oslo, Norway
    14. UTS HDR Excellence Awards: Runners up in the Team category, for their project, "Commercial applications of social robots" were Margaret Tonkin, Sarita Herse, Jonathan Vitale and Daniel Ebrahimian. In the Individual Category: Siva Leela Krishna Chand GudiFog Robotics for Efficient, Fluent and Robust Human-Robot Interaction; Suman Ojha Computational models of emotion for robots

    2017

    1. NASA Space Robotics Challenge Finalist and Third Place: PhD Student Samuel Pfeiffer
    2. European Satellite Navigation Competition, Chand Gudi Winner (prize worth: $20,000),
    3. Nokia Open Innovation Challenge. Finland. Finalist. Chand Gudi.
    4. IBISWorld 3P Innovation Competition First place: PhD Student Mahya Knox
    5. RoboCup Best Human-Robot Interface Award, UTS Unleashed!
    6. Second Place in the Social Robot League, UTS Unleashed!
    7. RoboCup Social Robotics @Home League Qualification, UTS Unleashed!
    8. European Satellite Navigation Competition Prize, First Place, PhD Student Chand Gudi
    9. AMY Student Awards Finalists, PhD Student: Meg Tonkin; Capstone Students: Navi Gunaratne, Jose Gunawarman, Denis Draca; First Class Honours Student: Le Kang.
    10. Start-Up Catalyst's Youth USA Mission, Mahya Knox

    2016

    1. Best Social Robot Design, International Conference on Social Robotics, Meg Tonkin
    2. Australian-French Entrepreneurship Challenge Finalist, Mayha Knox
    3. Project Pitch, Mayha Knox
    4. First Class Honours, Le Kang
    5. IBM PhD Fellowship, Mahya Knox
    6. Stocklands Social Robotics Scholarship, Le Kang

    Selected Student Prizes and Achievement 2010 - 2016

    2015 Valeo €100,000 Innovation Challenge Finalists, UTS Unleashed!
    2015 IBM PhD Fellowship, Mahya Knox
    2014 First Class Honours, Jenny Lui
    2014 Endeavour Leadership PhD Fellowship, Muh. Anshar
    2013 First Class Honours, Michelle Youssef
    2013 IJCAI Robot Video Prize, The Magic Lab Team
    2013 IBM PhD Fellowship, Wei Wang
    2012 Chancellor's Prize for the Best UTS PhD Dissertation, Benjamin Johnston
    2012 IBM PhD Fellowship, Pramod Parajuli
    2012 IBM PhD Fellowship, Jinjiu Li
    2011 Endeavour PhD Fellowship, Rony Novianto
    2011 Endeavour PhD Fellowship, Salia Raza
    2011 IBM PhD Fellowship, Rony Novianto
    2010 Endeavour Leadership PhD Fellowship, Pramod Parajuli
    2010 First Class Honours, James Horninsky
    2010 Ray Kurzweil Prize for the Most Creative Idea in AI, Benjamin Johnston                                                2010 IBM PhD Fellowship, Xun Wang