Endeavour Awards Night

The Endeavour Awards Night recognises the hard work of our students and celebrates their projects. Winning projects are recognised with department awards, industry-sponsored awards and the People's Choice Award.

Congratulations to all our student groups who participated in the Endeavour Exhibition. Thank you to all of our industry partners for working with our students and attending the awards night.

Meet the semester 2, 2026 winners.

Discipline Awards

Winner
Vision-Based Extraction of Surgical Performance Metrics
Team member: Teak Grogan
Artificial Lungs for Medical Imaging
Team member: Lakshmi Balasubramanian
Merit
Deep Learning for Structure–Function Mapping: Predicting Brain Functional Connectivity from Temporal-Domain Diffusion MRI
Team member: Jiwei Song
Testing a New Cochlear Implant Stimulation Strategy
Team member: Donya Delf-Achresh, Claire Missingham
Winner
Swarm Robotics VR/XR Simulation
Team members:  Alvis Tong, Joshua Vaughan, Ewan McRobinson, Michael Chen, Sasha Brooke, Nelson Jaden, Lucas Kenna, Zico Zhong
Merit
AR-Guided Demonstration Collection for Robot Imitation Learning with UMI
Team member:  Xu Ji
Accessible Content Platform (RealSAM Communities)
Team members:  Paing Hein, Patrick Barton Grace, Xiao Ning Ye, Jianing Jia, Ella McKercher, Xiaoping Yu, Si Yong Lim, Christopher Siang, Yuheng Jiang, Hong Xiu Wu
Winner
Information Systems Perspective on Methane Reduction in Australian Grazing Farm
Team members: Farrell Fathana, Aryo Pambudi, Fransisca Julia Kusuma, Irsha Primanda, Ndaru Setyawan
Merit
A Competency-Based Talent Evaluation Framework for StarPlan
Team members: Yuan Xiran, Zhenming Huang, Chenxing Zhou, Sichen Wang, Xinyu He
Supporting International Students' Adaptation in Melbourne
Team members: Yao Chen, Yue Wang
Winner
Real-Time Robotic Portrait Drawing System
Team members: Shan (Jacqueline) Mei, Yi Ji, Jiayue (Luna) Liu
Merit
5G-Enabled Multi-Robot Autonomy for Exploration and Inspection (Telstra)
Team members: Selini Samaranayake, Ziyang (Ray) Li, Luke Kristitz, Salil Kulkarni
Continuous-Wave Radar for Intelligent 2D Target Mapping and Motion-Selective Detection
Team members: Uri Kaufman, Sean Wei Liang Tai, Hong Kit Li
Continuo: Custom Audio Interface and Hardware-Accelerated Guitar Transcription for Generative Bass and Percussion Accompaniment
Team members: Jaime Orelowitz, Sena Fukushima, Ravindi Gamage, Felix Liu
Vision–Language–Action Models for Autonomous Vehicles
Team members: Jeremy Cox, Daniel Strahan, Lisa Yamamoto, Miah Voulgaris
Winner
Carbon Composite Defect Elimination Using FEM Simulators
Team members: Maulana Habibi, Scott Madden, Samuel Ball
Merit
Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) Optimisation
Team members: Yuhui Ma, Zheng Chang, Jiaxin Yang, Zihao Gao
Winner
Capstone 3D Imaging
Team members: Matthew Thomas, Heidi Kleins, Derek Phillips
Merit
Optimizing Procurement Models to Facilitate Net-Zero Carbon Adoption in the Construction Industry
Team members: Erza Raihanza, Nicolas Garzarella, Seif Mahmoud
Beach Erosion on the Mornington Peninsula (Portsea)
Team members: Lucinda Haig, Sophie Westcott, Alexandra Bollweg
TEM (Transient ElectroMagnetic) Rover: The Future of Subsurface Exploration
Team members: Miryam Martin, Gurpreet Singh, Sokcheatra Samrith, Sumit Jadhav
Real World Rail Bridges (VIC & NSW) Vibration Analytics and Finite Element Model Updating Using Real Monitoring Data
Team members: Lucca Ascenzo, Selim Azizoglu, Luke Riddiford
Harnessing Large Language Models to Query 3D Land and Property Information
Team members: Gabriella Trisna Yudhanti, Wanyan Wang, Elisa Tualaka
Structural Optimisation for Sustainable Building Solutions
Team members: Luke Phelan, Bianca Tamburro, Dominique Woodmore
Transforming Suburban Energy Systems for a Renewable Future
Team members: Nathan Green, Liam Shuster, Patrick Proper
Winner
Computationally Engineered Liquid Rocket Engine
Team member: Brooke Doolan, Jack Gardiner, William (Stuart) Davis
Merit
Practical Gray-Box Universal Differential Equation Methods to Model Chaotic Climate-Relevant Dynamics
Team members: Kevin Horner, Daimon Byl, Benjamin Cottrell
Moving-Camera Carriage for Particle Image Velocimetry in a Stratified Fluid Tank
Team members: Jack McNamara, Charles McNamara
Winner
Modular Bi-Manual Rehabilitation Robot
Team members: Nicholas Randall, Nicholas Kluckow, Jackson Lang, Jemma Huang
Merit
Design, Development and Control of Ultrasonic Array Generator to Deter Pests Ethically
Team members: Nicholas Lee, Andrew Tiew, Ivan Filippov, Kaicheng Mo
LabBot: Mobile Robotics for Safer and Smarter Chemical Experimentation
Team members: Junxiang Xiao, Binwen Sun, Zheming Li
Winner
TEM (Transient ElectroMagnetic) Rover: The Future of Subsurface Exploration
Team members: Miryam Martin, Gurpreet Singh, Sokcheatra Samrith, Sumit Jadhav

Industry Awards

Winner
Modular Bi-Manual Rehabilitation Robot
Team members: Nicholas Randall, Nicholas Kluckow, Jackson Lang, Jemma Huang
Winner
AnjeaHealth - A Non-Invasive Wearable to Improve Recognition of Postpartum Haemorrhage
Team members: Sarah Luiza D'Souza, Kritheek Beemadi, Ethan Jayamanna, Nevin Kothainayagam, Jennifer La, Jessica Maung
Winner
Continuous-Wave Radar for Intelligent 2D Target Mapping and Motion-Selective Detection
Team members: Uri Kaufman, Sean Wei Liang Tai, Hong Kit Li
Winner
Structural Optimisation for Sustainable Building Solutions
Team members: Luke Phelan, Bianca Tamburro, Dominique Woodmore
Winner
Node Grid Capacitive Sensing for Liquid Leak Localization in Data Centers
Team members: Renny Lim, Isaac Van Den Eynde-Horner, Christopher Corbett
Winners
Senara Medical: Measuring Fetal Brain Oxygenation to Guide Delivery
Team members: Ryan Bilalis, Kai Heinemann, Nick Wenzel, Orr Zaacks, Jac Simpkin, Jerry Wang
CornyMed.
Team members: Yanxin (Rebecca) Guo, Katrine Shi, Kritika Warrier, Thomas Fraser, Navneet Singh Badhan
Winner
Venaxis
Team members: Nikhil Chaudhry, Zak Farah, Evan Julian Tantono, Yuncheng Shi (Wilson), Charles Chen