Short news: 2023

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Our alumnus Severin Hacker is the co-founder and CTO of Duolingo. He joined the ETH Foundation for an interview and shared his thoughts about innovative ideas, the entrepreneurial spirit and unexpected connections.

ETH Zurich and the Dieter Schwarz Foundation have signed a far-reaching letter of intent to establish a new teaching and research centre for responsible digital transformation with a global reach. As a concrete first step, two new professorships in the field of computer science and data science will be established in Zurich, and the Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center (ZISC) will be further developed.

Michalis Kokologiannakis, currently a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Kaiserslautern, Germany, was appointed as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science by the ETH Board.

A research highlight in the December issue of Communications of the ACM is describing an award-winning publication from 2022 by Prof. Rasmus Kyng and Dr. Maximilian Probst Gutenberg from the Algorithms and Optimization Group at D-INFK and co-authors from Georgia Tech, Stanford, Waterloo and Toronto. The group developed an algorithm that computes exact maximum flows and minimum-cost flows on directed graphs.  

ETH Zurich and EPFL are launching the “Swiss AI Initiative”, whose purpose is to position Switzerland as a leading global hub for the development and implementation of transparent and reliable artificial intelligence (AI). The new Alps supercomputer based at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) provides the supporting world-​class infrastructure.

At this year’s ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), doctoral student Jingxuan He was awarded the Distinguished Paper Award for his paper titled “Large Language Models for Code: Security Hardening and Adversarial Testing”. Congratulations!

Doctoral students Marcin Charpek and Mikhail Khalilov from Professor Torsten Hoefler's SPCL group have won the Best Student Paper Award and Best Reproducibility Advancement Award at the SC23 Conference. Congratulations! Watch the video from the conference here.

The new CAS ETH AIS helps managers with non-computer science backgrounds advance their careers by providing technical fundamentals in machine learning, AI and software development.