Previous winners of the ASE Project Excellence award are as follows.

2017, sponsored by Microsoft, Omar Abdelhafith, ExAgent: an agent oriented language for the BEAM virtual machine, supervised by Dr. Rem Collier

2016, sponsored by Microsoft, Sai Krishna, Parkabled: A Parking App for Disabled Drivers, supervised by Dr. Mel Ó Cinnéide.
Special Mention: Colm Ward.

2015, Google Excellence Award to Cagri Cubukcu, GeNIE: A Portal for Gamification of Higher Education, supervised by Dr. Eleni Mangina and Prof. Lizbeth Goodman.
Special Mention: Mick O’Doherty.

2014, Google Excellence Award to Damilare Fagbemi, Evaluating Near-Duplicate Detection in Twitter, supervised by Prof. Mark Keane.
Special Mention: Grainne Coghlan, Jun Liu, Eoghan Ó hUallacháin.

2013, Google Excellence Award to Seán Fitzgerald, State Machine Design, Persistence and Code Generation using a Visual Workbench, Event Sourcing and CQRS, supervised by Prof. John Murphy.

2012, Google Excellence Award to Máire Regan, A Comparison of Android and iOS application development, supervised by Dr. Mel Ó Cinnéide.

2011, Google Excellence Award to Fergus McCann, An Exploration of General Purpose Programming on Graphical Processing Units, supervised by Dr. Neil Hurley.

2010, Google Excellence Award to Kevin Foley, Multi-criteria Optimisation of Non-negative Matrix Factorisation Problems Using Pareto Simulated Annealing Techniques, supervised by Prof. Pádraig Cunningham. Kevin subsequently published a paper on his project and won the best paper award at AICS 2011.