Non-Faculty Awards

Our doctoral students and young researchers have been successful in winning international recognition, through PhD fellowships, leadership awards, best dissertation awards and research awards.

2024 - Parnian Kassraie : Google PhD Fellowship

2024 - Simon Meierhans: Google PhD Fellowship

2024 - Lorenzo Noci : Google PhD Fellowship

2022 - Marcin Copik: ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship

2022 - Clara Meister: Google PhD Fellowship

2022 - Yufeng Zheng: Meta PhD Fellowship

2021 - Marcin Copik: Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship

2020 - Yifan Wang: Apple PhD Fellowship

2019 - Barbara Solenthaler: TUM-IAS Hans-Fischer Fellowship

2019 - Francesco Locatello: Google PhD Fellowship

2019 - Timon Gehr: IBM PhD Fellowship Award

2018 - Andrea Lattuada: Google European Doctoral Fellowship

2018 - Manuela Fischer: Google European Doctoral Fellowship

2017 - Pavol Bielik: Facebook PhD Fellowship

2015 - Maciej Besta: George Michael HPC Fellowship

2015 - Victoria Caparrós Cabezas: Google European Doctoral Fellowship

2015 - Josip Djolonga: Google European Doctoral Fellowship

2015 - Veselin Raychev: IBM PhD Fellowship

2015 - Thomas Schöps: Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

2015 - Adish Singla: Facebook PhD Fellowship

2014 - Yuxin Chen: Google European Doctoral Fellowship

2014 - Marcelo Matheus Gauy: Phd Science without Borders

2014 - Jana Giceva: Google European Doctoral Fellowship

2014 - Frank Mousset: Fonds National de la Recherche

2014 - Tobias Nägeli: Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

2013 - Maciej Besta: Google European Doctoral Fellowship

2013 - Bernhard Zeisl: Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

2012 - Alec Jacobson: Intel PhD Fellowship

2012 - Lorenz Meier: Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

2011 - Christian Beckel: Bosch Hans L. Merkle Foundation

2011 - Bruno José Conchinha Montalto: Google European Doctoral Fellowship

2010 - Roland Angst: Google European Doctoral Fellowship

2010 - Tim Kraska: SNSF Prospective Researcher Fellowship

2010 - Pravin Shinde: Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship

2024 - Benjamin Bichsel: ACM SIGPLAN John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award

2023 - Samuel Steffen: ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Runner-​Up Award

2023 - Yifan Wang: Eurographics PhD Award

2023 - Gaspard Zoss: Eurographics PhD Award

2022 - Maciej Besta: SIGHPC Doctoral Dissertation Award

2022 - Manuela Fischer: ACM Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award

2022 - Kristina Hostáková: CAST/GI Promotionspreis IT-​Sicherheit

2021 - Gagandeep Singh: ACM SIGPLAN Dissertation Award

2021 - Maciej Besta: SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award Runner Up

2021 - Goran Zuzic: Principles of Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award for best thesis

2021 - Maciej Besta: IEEE TCSC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award

2021 - Irene Baeza Rojo: EuroVis Best PhD Dissertation Award

2021 - Lisa Kohl: Uniserv-Forschungspreis, best dissertation in the area of algorithms for efficient data processing

2020 - Felix Berkenkamp: ELLIS PhD Award

2019 - Felix Günther: ERCIM STM WG Award for Best PhD Thesis on Security and Trust Management

2019 - Felix Günther: ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award for Outstanding PhD Theses in Computer and Information Security

2019 - Pascal Bérard: Eurographics PhD Award for the Best Thesis

2016 - Veselin Raychev: ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention

2015 - Karl Bringman: EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award

2015 - Maria Christakis: EAPLS Best PhD Dissertation Award

2014 - Alec Jacobson: Eurographics Annual Award, Best PhD thesis

2014 - Jie Song: Winner Swisscom ICT Thesis Award

2014 - Cengiz Oeztireli: Eurographics Annual Award, Best PhD thesis

2013 - Peter Gaži: ISSS Excellence Award, PhD thesis

2012 - Heidi Gebauer: Richard Rado Prize, outstanding dissertation

2012 - Robin Moser: GI-Dissertationspreis, best dissertation in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

2010 - René Müller: Fritz Kutter Award

2010 - Konstantinos Panagiotou: Richard Rado Prize, outstanding dissertation

2007 - Sebastian Mödersheim: ABB Research Award

2006 - Renato Renner: ACM-GI Dissertation Award

2006 - Michael Rohs: Fritz Kutter Award

2024 - Maciej Besta: IEEE TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High-Performance Computing

2023 - Maciej Besta: IEEE TCSC Early Career Researcher Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing

2022 - Dominik Winterer: Amazon Research Award

2022 - Chengyu Zhang: Amazon Research Award

2022 - Shaohua Li: Meta Security Research Award

2021 - Vinicius Azevedo: SCA Early Career Researcher Award

2021 - Tobias Günther: Eurographics Young Researcher Award

2019 - Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas, Tal Ben-Nun, Timo Schneider: ACM Gordon Bell Prize

2019 - Tal Ben-Nun: SNSF Ambizione Grant

2019 - Christian Badertscher: ISSS Excellence Award

2017 - Tobias Grosser: SNSF Ambizione Fellowship

2015 - Alexander J. Summers: AITO Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize

2012 - Marco Trudel: Hasler Pioneer Fellowship

2012 - Philipp Unterbrunner: Chorafas Foundation Award

2012 - Vassilis Zikas: SNSF Ambizione Grant

2010 - Robert Adelmann: Hasler Pioneer Fellowship

2010 - Oriana Riva: SNSF Ambizione Grant

2009 - Jens Teubner: SNSF Ambizione Grant

2024 - Hao Sun: eBPF Grant Award

2023 - Maximilian Probst: Frontiers of Science Award

2022 - Manuela Fischer: Chorafas Prize

2022 - Alexis Block: Otto Hahn Medal

2021 - Zhehao He: Xilinx XACC Outstanding Contributions Award

2020 - Johannes Schönberger: ECCV Mark Everingham Prize

2020 - Martin Hirt: Theory of Cryptography Conference "Test-of-Time" Award

2020 - Robin Moser: Gödel Prize

2019 - Marcin Copik: ACM Student Research Competition Gold Medal

2018 - Felix Weissenberger: Hojjat Adeli Award for Outstanding Contributions in Neural Systems

2021 - Nezihe Merve Gürel

2020 - Charlotte Bunne

2015 - Jessica Falk

2014 - Baharan Mirzasoleiman

2014 - Tahmineh Sanamrad

2013 - Elke Schaper

2012 - Nihal Dindar Akin

2011 - Anwar Hithnawi

2010 - Andrea Francke

2010 - Christina Pöpper

2009 - Iulia Ion

2007 - Monika Steinová

The Fritz Kutter Prize is awarded in recognition of valuable practice-oriented computer science theses. The Fritz Kutter Fund is administered by ETH Zurich, but the prize can be awarded to any graduate of a Swiss university. Only the professors can submit nominations for the respective theses. 

More information

2024 - Zhenhao He: Distributed Computing with Specialized Hardware in the Data Center

2023 - Sankalan Pal Chowdhury: A Dialogue Tutoring Dataset with Rich Pedagogical Properties Grounded in Math Reasoning Problems

2022 - Emre Aksan: Learning Representations for Generative Modeling of Human Dynamics
2022 - Muyu Li: Efficiently Scheduling Remote And Local Resources in ML Data Input Pipeline

2020 - Nina Wiedemann: Algorithmic Approaches for Optimizing Linear Infrastructure Planning

2019 - Celestine Mendler-Dünner: System-Aware Algorithms For Machine Learning

2018 - Manuel Le Gallo: Phase-Change Memory: Device Physics and Application to non-von Neumann Computing

2017 - Thijs Vogels: Kernel-Predicting Convolutional Neural Networks for Denoising Monte-Carlo Renderings

2015 - Tanja Kaeser Jacober: Modeling and Optimizing Computer-Assisted Mathematics Learning in Children

2011 - Sukriti Ramesh: CrowdDB – Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing

2010 - René Müller: Data Stream Processing on Embedded Devices

2009 - Babara Solenthaler: Incompressible Fluid Simulation and Advanced Surface Handling with SPH

2008 - Noe Lutz: Towards Revealing Attackers’ Intent by Automatically Decrypting Network Traffic

2006 - Jörg Wagner: Analysis of Dynamics in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
2006 - Michael Rohs: Linking Physical and Virtual Worlds with Visual Markers and Handheld Devices

2005 - Christoph Göldi and Roman Hiestand: Scan Detection Based Identification of Worm-Infected Hosts

2004 - Jonas Trindler and Raphael Zwiker: Adaptive Building Intelligence

2001 - Roger Weber: Similarity Search in High-Dimensional Vector Spaces
2001 - Martin Gantenbein: The Train Length Problem

2000 - Raimond Reichert: Ein spielerischer Einsteig ins Programmieren: Kara, der programmierbare Marienkäfer

1997 - Martin Braschler: Experimente mit sprachübergreifender Informationssuche

1996 - Stefan Wengi: Eine Benutzerverwaltung für RDFS
1996 - Thomas Sprenger: Software- und Hardwareimplementation der IrDA-Protokollstack

1995 - Gerard Milmeister: Functional Kernel with Modules

1994 - Martin Wechsler: Ermittlung der Retrieval-Effektivität eines Speech Retrieval Systems

1993 - Alex Birrer: Entwurf eines Datenmodells fü die Verwaltung und Analyse von Bienengesundheitsdaten

1992 - Ambros Marzetta: Hochleistungs-Transportprotokoll für transaktionsorientierte Anwendungen
1992 - Rene W. Keller: Entwicklung einer Retrieval-Komponente für ein Speech Retrieval System

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