Best student projects in 2025 selected

On 29 May, the Final Event of the Institute of Computer Science Student Project Contest took place in the Delta Study Building. The authors of 33 projects presented their work at the poster session, and a jury of representatives from the Institute's Chairs selected the winners.

5 projects competed in the Bachelor's first-year category, 19 in the Bachelor's category with the largest number of participants and 9 in the Master's category. In every category, the prize fund is 2,400 euros. €1000 for I, €800 for II, and €600 for III places in every category. This year, special prizes were awarded to the audience’s favourite and the best demo, with the winners receiving €500.

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Winners of the first-year Bachelor's category

I place: TyPy – Kostiantyn Iliushchenko
II place: juur.ai – Markus Tamm, Robin Otter
III place: Particle Life Simulator – Artjom Geimanen

Winners of the Bachelor's category
I place: Model for Saving Energy in Distributed Systems Using QC-LDPC Codes – Karl Kristjan Puusepp
II place: A Trim-sheet Workflow Add-on for Blender – Laas Hendrik Lumberg
III place: Procedular Generation of Gas Giants – Simon Prii

Winners of the Master's category

I place: Mastering the Unseen: Approaches to Hard-to-Detect Viral Cytopathic Effect – Aleksandr Makarov
II place: IAUNet: Instance-Aware U-Net – Yaroslav Prytula
III place: Exploring Social Bias in Language Models through the Lens of Cinema – Liisa Rikanson

Best Demo
Automated Podcast Generator – Philip Paškov, Oskar Männik

Audience Award
UTchat – Hendrik Jaks, Robin Juul, Karl Markus Kiudma

The posters of the student projects will remain on display until 10 June. Find out more about all the projects that took part in the contest.

All projects in 2025

Many thanks to all participants, and congratulations to the winners!