Pictured is the winner of the Maurice F FitzGerald Prize 2014, Jack Fitzsimons (Computer Engineering, Trinity College Dublin) with trustees Michael Brady (assistant professor, School of Computer Science and Statistics), Ciaran Simms (associate professor and director of undergraduate teaching and learning, School of Engineering), Brian Foley (associate professor and head of the School of Engineering) and Finbar Callanan (former director general of Engineers Ireland) at Trinity College Dublin on 19 March. At his graduation, Fitzsimons was presented with a gold medal on the basis of his overall performance in computer engineering. He was also the recipient the Collen Prize and McNeill Award, having obtained the highest overall average grade in his final examinations and the best final-year project within his stream of engineering. He also won the Overall Prize in Computer Science at the Undergraduate Awards Competition and the Newport Research Excellence Award at SPIE Optics and Photonics 2014. While attending Trinity College, Fitzsimons took every opportunity to gain commercial and academic engineering experience. During his undergraduate years, he interned at Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California's Institute of Technology. Having been awarded the Donal Murphy Scholarship to Queen’s College, he is now pursuing a DPhil in Machine Learning at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Prof Stephen Roberts and Dr Michael Osborne. Specifically, Fitzsimons is working on probabilistic numerics, an exciting new field of research that leverages Bayesian reasoning to answer the numerical challenges posed by machine learning. In the future, he hopes to use the knowledge and skills that he is developing to both further the field of machine learning and to start innovative ventures. The Trustees for this prize include the provost, Dr Patrick Prendergast, associate professor Brian Foley (Head of the School of Engineering), associate professor Ciaran Simms (director of undergraduate teaching and learning, School of Engineering), assistant professor Michael Brady (School of Computer Science and Statistics) and Finbar Callanan (former Director General of Engineers Ireland).