The School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences recently hosted its 2025 Engineering and IT Showcase, bringing together students, staff and industry partners to celebrate the remarkable work of our final-year students.
Supported by our industry partners, the showcase highlighted innovative, real-world technology projects. The evening also featured an inspiring keynote from Dr Alex Talevski, Senior Vice President of Morse Micro a global leader in Wi-Fi HaLow semi-conductors which enables long-range Edge-AI applications, and La Trobe alumnus, who shared insights from his career journey.
Professor Wenny Rahayu, Dean of the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences said she was proud of the students and their incredible work.
“It was a wonderful event, with so many outstanding student projects demonstrating real-world impact,” she said.
“We are sincerely grateful to our industry partners and sponsors for their continued support. It was also a pleasure to hear from our alumnus, Dr Alex Talevski, who shared a powerful reminder with our students that the future isn’t something we wait for – it’s something we build.”
Several students received awards in recognition of their outstanding projects:
- The CIO Excellence in Digital Innovation Award: Sanidhya Verma.
- Dean’s Award for the most outstanding leadership contribution by a female in a project team: Grace May and Cara Figueras.
- Best Robotic Systems Design Project: Minh Nguyen, Mack Prabhu, and Minhaj Muhammed.
- Best Engineering Poster: Samir Raj Bhandar.
- Top CS&IT Project Academic Award: James Belcher Junior.
- Top project for technical implementation: Muhammad Sohaib, Naman Arora, Sai Pavan Bandari, John Arnan Peyyala, Shyalan Ramesh, and Oemar Burhan.
- Top Cybersecurity Industry Project: Matthew Celotto, Antonio De Cata, Meriana Naddo, James Mallon, and Brayden Parker.
