Academics

BSc Computational Thinking

• Graduated top of the class with a 1st class honours. (92.3% overall)
• Highest final year project grade ever awarded by Maynooth CS Department (100%).
• Chomsky prize for best results in final year Computational Thinking.
• Microsoft prize for best final year project in Computer Science.
• De Brún prize for outstanding performance in final year Pure Mathematics.
• McMahon Prize for outstanding penultimate year maths results.
• Cook Award winner for top results in 2nd year of Computational Thinking.
• McMahon Prize for Penultimate Year Mathematics.
• Turing Award winner for top results in 1st year of Computational Thinking.
• 4th place in the National Maths Intervarsity 2017.

Secondary Schooling

• Achieved 615 points in the Leaving Certificate.
• John Curley Award for Science.
• Student of the year in Maths, Applied Maths, and Physics.
• 3rd Place All Ireland Senior Science Quiz.
• One of Silicon Republic’s top 25 young scientists.
• Won the Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship’s National Innovation Award and the Sligo Enterprise Board Innovation Award.

Programming

• Represented Ireland at the 2016 International Olympiad in Informatics.
• 1st place at the Irish Collegiate Programming Competition.
• 1st place at the All Ireland Programming Olympiad.
• 3rd place in the world in HackMIT 2018 entry challenge.
• 3rd in Europe and 53rd worldwide in the IEEEXtreme Programming Competition.
• 2nd Place at University of Toronto UTSCode.
• 1st in Ireland on Kattis.
• 2nd place AIB Datahack, AIB’s annual national data science competition.
• 3rd Place Ireland in Google Hash Code.
• 3rd place in the senior division of Google’s All Ireland programming competition Call to Code.