CORE currently offers the following awards in the area of Computer Science.  Please see individual award pages for details including submission deadlines.

The CORE Teaching Awards

The CORE award for the Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation 

The CORE award for outstanding Research Contribution 

The CORE Distinguished Service Award

Best Student Papers at ACSW

The CORE Academy is also established to honour and recognise individuals who have made significant and cumulative contributions to the development of the computing disciplines in Australasia. 

The 2027 Awards will be presented at ACSW 2027. 

2027 Awards

We congratulate the following for their excellent achievements. 

Click here for a list of Past Award recipients and their citations.

CORE Distinguished Service Award

Paul Strooper, University of Queensland - Citation

CORE Award for Outstanding Research Contribution 

Luping Zhou, University of Sydney - Citation

CORE Teaching Awards

General Award:  Atabak Elmi, Lennon Yao-Chung Chang, Atul Sajjanhar,

Chathu Ranaweera, Andrew Cain, Laura Tubino, Deakin University - Citation

Early Career Award:  Charlotte Pierce, Monash University - Citation

CORE Award for the Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation

Linhao Luo, Monash University - Citation
Learning and Reasoning on Knowledge Graphs: From Graph Neural Networks to Large Language Models