UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering

Australian Research Council's Excellence in Research for Australia initiative results for World-Class Research in Information Technology • 2020/21: Ranked first in Australia in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings • 2018/19: Shared first with ANU for Computer Software • 2018/19: Maintained a rating of 5 for broad research fields of Engineering and Information and Computing Sciences • 2013: Only Australian University to achieve a rank of 5 (the highest ranking) in Computer Software • 2011: Broadest range (5 areas, the next highest was only in 2 areas) in Australia ==Rankings==

(OK Labs Founder, ACM Fellow) (ARC Laureate Fellow, ACM Fellow) in May 2020 == Student projects ==

File:RUNSWift AIBOS.jpg|thumb|200px|rUNSWift in a four-legged league game from RoboCup 2006 in Breman, Germany. File:RUNSWift Naos 2010.jpg|thumb|200px|rUNSWift in a Standard Platform League game from RoboCup 2010 in Singapore. IVy During the World Solar-Car Speed Record attempt. Students of the School are involved in a number of high-profile projects, including: • rUNSWift, the University's team in the international RoboCup Standard Platform League competition, is the most successful team in the world, with wins in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2014 and 2015, as well as coming second in 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2010. • Sunswift Solar Cars • 2018: Guinness World Record with car "VIolet" - Lowest Energy Consumption Driving Trans-Australia (Perth to Sydney) - Electric Car. • 2014: FIA Land Speed Record with car "Sunswift eVe" - Sunswift eVe breaks the record for the fastest electric car over 500 kilometres (310 mi), with an average speed of 107 kilometres per hour (66 mph). The previous record of 73 kilometres per hour (45 mph) was set in 1988. • 2009: Winner of the Silicon Challenge Class at the Global Green Challenge with the car "Sunswift IVy". • BLUEsat Satellite • 2018: 8th in the European Rover Challenge (ERC) == Student competitions ==

The School has computer laboratories for coursework teaching and student projects, including a number of specialist laboratories. The network supports well in excess of 1000 computers for teaching, research and administration. • 300+ Intel-based computers running Linux in 13 generic teaching laboratories; Microsoft Windows is available 'virtualized' in all Linux labs • 20 AppleOS computers reserved in a specialized teaching laboratory • 40 Linux computers in laboratories reserved for thesis students • 1200+ computing sessions available in a 'virtualized' lab environment • 150+ heterogeneous computers dedicated to post-grad research students • 10+ discrete GPU servers for deep-learning research • 40+ discrete CPU servers available in Linux clusters for research • Virtual Reality lab • laptop locker • 1 multi-host vSphere production cluster with dedicated 60TB SAN • 100 virtualized servers for academic staff teaching and research requirements • 1 multi-host vSphere research cluster with dedicated 20TB SAN • 30 virtualized servers for dedicated and ad-hoc research requirements • 30+ heterogeneous computers for administration and systems support • extensive backup infrastructure, utilizing incremental and full backup to tape The School is committed to a regular cycle of upgrades and invests heavily to maintain a state-of-the-art IT environment. UNSW Sydney has a very high capacity, free, wireless Internet service for all students and staff. == References ==