Welcome to the ACM Student Research Competition!

The ACM Student Research Competition has received generous sponsorship of $120,000 per competition year from Microsoft Research since 2003.

The ACM Student Research Competition is an internationally recognized venue enabling undergraduate and graduate students to:
Experience the research world – for many undergraduates this is a first!
Share research results and exchange ideas with other students, judges, and conference attendees
Rub shoulders with academic and industry luminaries
Understand the practical applications of their research
Perfect their communication skills
Receive prizes and gain recognition from ACM and the greater computing community


“…I [felt] emboldened by receiving the ACM SRC award and decided to go on to a doctoral course. ”

Yuki Mori, SIGGRAPH SRC
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The Winners of the 2011 Student Research Competition Grand Finals are:

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place: Swapnil Patil, Carnegie Mellon University
Second Place: Nurcan Durak, University of Louisville
Third Place: Xiangyu Dong, Pennsylvania State University

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place: Peter Calvert, University of Cambridge
Second Place: Tsung-Wei Huang, National Cheng Kung University
Third Place: Timothy Walsh, University of Delaware

View All Submissions to the 2011 SRC Grand Finals

ACM Computer Research Contest Honors Student Innovations
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All Grand Final winners were invited to attend the ACM Awards Banquet in San Jose, CA on June 4th, 2011
To obtain and print a copy of the ACM SRC flyer please click here