TakeAIM Competition

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TakeAIM Competition

TakeAIM

Established in 2011, the Smith Institute’s annual TakeAIM competition is an opportunity for university students to showcase their work on the industrial stage. TakeAIM’s goal is to highlight the crucial role mathematics and data science play in solving real-world problems, while rewarding the academic exploration of future innovators who undertake pioneering research.

From medicine to manufacturing, security to social media, mathematics and data science are evolving to play an increasingly fundamental role in the way we live. It is the fresh imagination and insights of young mathematicians and data scientists that help to understand and predict the behaviour of physical, biological, and social systems in today’s ever-changing world.

TakeAIM 2024

Last year’s competition received over 60 entries from across Europe covering a wide range of sectors and applications. This breadth demonstrates the vast potential for mathematics and data science to help humanity solve some of its most complex challenges.

The 2024 TakeAIM competition was won by Kevin Michalewicz from Imperial College London for his fascinating work on Neural Networks for Antibody Design.

The 2025 competition opened on 22nd November 2024. You can enter via the button below.

TakeAIM 2024 Winners

IN FIRST PLACE:
Kevin Michalewicz (Left)
Imperial College London 
Neural Networks for Antibody Design
RUNNER UP
Rosie Evans
University of Birmingham 
Mathematical Modelling for Cortisol Replacement

RUNNER UP
Daniel Stocks
University of Bristol 
Mathematical Modelling of the Humoral Response to COVID-19 Vaccination
RUNNER UP
Ziyang Yang
Lancaster University 
Smarter, Safer and More Sustainable Internet of Things Monitoring

Past Winners

Take a look back at some of the competition's previous winners and runners up.

Winner

Eleanor D’Arcy, Lancaster University

Accounting for climate change and seasonality in extreme sea level estimation

Finalist

Alissa Hummer, University of Oxford, St Catherine’s College

Machine learning to accelerate therapeutic antibody development

Finalist

Jennifer Power, University of Bath

Making cancer treatments safer with mathematics

Finalist

Fiona Young, University College London

Intraoperative diffusion MRI for improving brain surgery

Winner

Catherine Wells, University of Reading

Tracking the sustainability of long-haul flights

Finalist

Eleanor Russell, University of Manchester

Thermal metamaterials: The future of electronics

Finalist

Callum Barltrop, Lancaster University
The importance of combined extreme events for nuclear regulation

Winner

Finalist

Georgia S. Brennan, University of Oxford
40 years of Alzheimer’s disease dynamics in 14 seconds

Finalist

Maria Tatulea-Codrean, University of Cambridge
Know your enemy: Using mathematics to understand the movement of bacteria

Winner

Sarah Brown, University of Nottingham
Using maths to combat potentially fatal asthma attacks

Winner

Enrico Gavagnin, University of Bath
A collective human challenge

Finalist

Arkady Wey, University of Oxford
The contamination crisis and a filtration fix

Finalist

Laura Wadkin, Newcastle University
Using mathematics to optimise stem cell experiments

Winner

Emma L Davis, University of Warwick
A zombie apocalypse...?

Finalist

Lisa Koeppel, Lancaster University
Predicting the spread and the risk of dengue

Finalist

Joseph Field, University of Oxford
X-ray reconstruction of moving bodies

Finalist

Lisa Maria Kreusser, University of Cambridge
Using mathematics to make our digital world safer

Finalist

Amy Mallinson, University of Manchester
Finding the missing meteorites of Antarctica

Finalist

Maria Tang, University of Cambridge
Modelling the spread of a pandemic

Finalist

Mel Beckerleg, University of Oxford
Filling in the blanks

Finalist

Remus Stana, University of Leeds
Cellular mathematical modelling

Finalist

Oliver Sheridan-Methven, University of Oxford
Accurate answers from imprecise calculations

Winner

Elizabeth Holden, University of Nottingham
Informing tissue engineering design

Finalist

Roxana Pamfil, University of Oxford
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Finalist

William Rowley, University of Manchester
Acoustic metamaterials for noise reduction applications

Finalist

Syed Rezwan Kabir, Heriot Watt University
Advanced machine learning for operational flood forecasting and mapping

Finalist

Kristian Kiradjiev, University of Oxford
Modelling removal of harmful chemicals from flue gas

Finalist

Marco Pietropaoli, Imperial College London
TOffee (Topology optimisation for fluid engineering

Finalist

Federico Danieli, University of Oxford
Chasing the sun

Finalist

Helen Fletcher, University of Oxford
Modelling the next generation of batteries

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