Marco Selvatici

Awards

Governors' BEng Prize in Electronic & Information Engineering

2020

To an outstanding student in the final year of BEng EIE.

Class of 1974 Prize

2020

To a BEng student who has achieved excellence in both technical and non-technical subjects and has shown exceptional achievements in extra-curricular activities.

Netcraft Security Prize

2020

To the top ten performing students in the Network and Web Security course.

Dean's List (Year 3)

2020

To a student in the top 10% of their year.

Dean's List (Year 2)

2019

To a student in the top 10% of their year.

Dean's List (Year 1)

2018

To a student in the top 10% of their year.

Institute of Engineering & Technology Prize

2018

To the top student in first year EIE.

Network and Web Security Competition

2020

Awarded to the first student that would be able to deobfuscate a state-of-the-art obfuscated JavaScript malware (out of around 120 students). I actually was the second student to complete the challenge but the lecturer was so impressed that somebody was able to solve the challenge within a few hours that he awarded the prize to the top 2 students (it took me around 5 hours, while the fastest student only needed 4.5 hours).

Advanced Databases Competition

2019

Awarded to the pair of students that created the most perfomant code to execute a series of SQL queries (out of around 40 teams). The solution me and me teammate proposed was more than 200 times faster than the course Teaching Assistant's one.

First Ascent winner

2018

First Ascent is a programme organised by an Italian tech company that aims to select the 20 best university students for the field of Computer Science and related subjects.

13th place at Italian Individual Informatics Olympiads

2016

Informatics Olympiads are competitive programming contests that are held in Italy each year. Every high school student can partecipate. 13th place is in the top 0.01% (more than 20'000 initial contestants).

6th place at Italian Informatics Olympiads for Teams

2016

There exists a team version of the Informatic Olympiads, where each team has 6 people. 6th place is within the top 3% (more than 200 initial teams).

12th place at Italian Natural Science Olympiads

2014

Natural Science Olympiads are competitions that are held in Italy each year. Every high school student can partecipate. 12th place is in the top 0.01% (more than 25'000 initial contestants).