Hui Sun - Young Software Engineer of the Year

Congratulations to Hui Sun, BEng., who graduated this summer with First-class Honours in Software Engineering. Hui has won The 2007 Young Software Engineer of the Year Award, presented at a ceremony organised by the trade association ScotlandIS in Edinburgh.

This award, which includes a cheque for £1500, presented by Ann Budge of Sopra Group, and the ScotlandIS Young Software Engineer of the year trophy, is given to the student who has undertaken the best final year software engineering project from amongst all Scottish universities.

Hui Sun’s project Face Recognition on J2ME-enabled mobile phone was supervised by Dr. Gillian Hayes of the Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour. The judges considered his work to be exceptional, with a clear commercial application.

Hui Sun is the sixth Informatics student to win one of these prestigious awards:

2007	First prize	Hui Sun	BEng. Hons. Software Engineering	1st class
2006	First prize	Nicholas O’Shea	BSc. Hons. Computer Science	1st class
2003	First prize	Tim Angus	BSc. Hons. Computer Science	1st class
2000	First prize	Will Bryson	BSc. Hons. Computer Science	1st class
1999	First prize	Edward Knowelden	BSc. Hons. Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science	1st class
1998	Second prize	Hugh Leather	BSc. Hons. Computer Science	1st class