READ.ME - Archive 2023

View READ.ME December 2023 here

Faculty and staff
New position for our Alumna Dr. Judith Zimmermann

Prizes and awards
VMware Early Career Faculty Award for Ana Klimovic
ACM SIGSAC Runner-Up Award for Samuel Steffen
VIS Teaching Awards

Stories of the month
Major Donation from the Dieter Schwarz Foundation
"At heart, I remain an engineer" (Alumnus Tobias Nägeli)
Joint initiative for trustworthy AI (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS)
Master in Data Science

Tips of the month
Pint of Science Switzerland
Ready for the break

Events
Distinguished Colloquium
Glühwein-Apéro

Giggles and glimpses
Name giver and D-INFK bottle winners
Holiday cheer and New Year's wishes

View READ.ME November 2023 here

Faculty and staff
Julia Bogdan elected new VSETH President
Welcome, Professor April Yi Wang

Prizes and awards
Four D-INFK professors receive SNSF Starting Grants
Success for RACKlette
Doctoral graduates receive ETH Medals
Golden Owl for Emo Welzl

Stories of the month
Starting a company is like paragliding (Alumnus, Tobias Nägeli)
Digital emblem for humanitarian law in cyberspace (Doctoral student Felix Linker)
Redefining Teleconferencing with ViGather (Professor Christian Holz)

Tip of the month
Best Glühwein places

Events
Distinguished Colloquium
Glühwein-Apéro
Call for participation - Informatiktage

Giggles and glimpses
Last round: Take part in the mascot showdown!
The Ultimate D-INFK Holiday Playlist
Share your wishes for the New Year

View READ.ME October 2023 here

Faculty and staff
Andreas Krause appointed as an expert to the UN's High-Level Advisory Body on AI
Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Programme (ESOP) for eight students

Story of the month
Using machine learning to predict how different cells react to specific treatments (Professor Gunnar Rätsch)

Prizes and awards
THE subject ranking, 5th place
Marc Pollefeys wins Dandelion Award

Events
Anniversary Colloquium in honour of Prof. em. Niklaus Wirth and Prof. em. Walter Gander
ETH Climate Round
ETH AI + Environment Summit

Tip of the month
Visit Treffpunkt Science City, every Sunday in November

Giggles and glimpses
Name our D-INFK owl mascot – Vote for your favourite name
Mystery solved: Meet Lossy

View READ.ME September 2023 here

Faculty and staff
Professor Torsten Hoefler is newly affiliated with the CSCS
New head of the Institute for Machine Learning is Professor Thomas Hoffmann
Administrative assistant Simonetta Zysset is retiring

Stories of the month
3D printed plates for cleft lip and palate care (Till Schnabel, doctoral student)
"I try not to sacrifice my private life" (Eren Akbiyik, Master's student)

Prizes and awards
ETH Medals and Willi Studer Prize for Master's graduates
MorphTales achieved 2nd place at the Digital Awards

Events
ETH Industry Day
Distinguished Colloquium
Master's Graduation Ceremony

Tip of the month
Follow and tag us on Social Media

Giggles and glimpses
Make history: Name our D-INFK owl mascot!
Spotted

View READ.ME August 2023 here

Faculty and staff
A summer full of learning experiences

Story of the month
Being human (Prof. Thomas Hofmann)

Prizes and awards
Marc Pollefeys receives SNSF Advanced Grant

Events
Scientifica
ETH Information Days
Distinguished Colloquium

Please Meet...
Markus Dahinden, Senior Scientist Focus Education

Tips of the month
Scholarships
Interested research groups wanted

View READ.ME July 2023 here

Faculty and staff
A big welcome to this year's SSRF students

Stories of the month
Learning the hard way (Xenia Hofmeier, doctoral student)
Learning about yourself (David Dao, former doctoral student)
Following your heart (Chengyu Zhang, postdoc)
"RACKlette feels like a second family to me"
How AI models teach themselves to learn new things
Computer Science is now a basic subject in Swiss cantonal schools  

Prizes and awards
Frontiers of Science Award for Rasmus Kyng and Maximilian Probst

Events
Course in Parallel Programming
Paul Bernays Lectures
VMI Summer Retreat
CSNOW Schnupperstudium

Please Meet...
Valeria Bella, Event Manager at the ETH AI Center

Tip of the month
Wanted: Tandempartner for software developer
Polish your communications skills

View READ.ME June 2023 here

Faculty and staff
Professor Niao He becomes new Co-Director of the CLS

Stories of the month
"Morph Tales" – a new ETH game invites you to get to know AI research (ETH Game Technology Center, ETH AI Center)
The bridge builder (Dr. Martina Baumann)
How AI technology from ETH animates the fire creatures in the latest Pixar movie (Prof. Barbara Solenthaler)

Prizes and awards
Gaspard Zoss and Yifan Wang receive the Eurographics PhD Award
Team RACKlette reaches 3rd place and wins the LINPACK Award at the ISC Student Cluster Competition

Events
ETH Summer Student Research Fellowship (SSRF)

Please Meet...
Brigitte Marti, Studies Administrator and Mobility Advisor

Tip of the month
New address

Student corner
New equipment for the computer labs
Student workspaces food&lab temporarily closed

View READ.ME May 2023 here

Faculty and staff
Relocation to CAB and CNB

Stories of the month
Saving lives with artificial intelligence (Fabian Laumer, doctoral student)
Two new projects from the Sensing, Interaction & Perception Lab (Prof. Christian Holz)
“By living in a different country, I have grown a lot as a person” (Cella Florescu, Bachelor’s student)

Prizes and awards
Ralf Jung is awarded the 2023 Alonzo Church Award
David Cock co-receives ACM Software System Award
Bernhard Schölkopf receives ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award
Marc Pollefeys was elected member of Academia Europaea
Gustavo Alonso receives EuroSys Lifetime Achievement Award
2023 VIS Teaching Awards

Events
2023 VIS Teaching Awards
lfl Colloqium "Troubling Visualization"
John von Neumann Symposium
Markus’ 60th birthday celebration
12. Schweizer Tag für den Informatikunterricht (STIU)
ETH Week 2023
Zukunftstag ETH Zurich

Please Meet...
Clara Meister, doctoral student

Tip of the month
VMI  Helpdesk

Student corner
VIS brunch
Student workspaces food&lab temporarily closed

View READ.ME April 2023 here

Faculty and staff
Relocation to OAT

Stories of the month
“A development freeze would jeopardise transparency” (Prof. Andreas Krause, Dr. Alexander Ilic)
A new form of human-computer interaction (Prof. Martin Vechev, doctoral students Luca Beurer-Kellner and Marc Fischer)
International Girls in ICT Day

Prizes and awards
Torsten Hoefler earns first Jack Dongarra Early Career Award
Adrian Perrig and Olga Sorkine-Hornung elected members of SATW
UK-US Summit for Democracy announces ETH team around Martin Vechev as a winner in worldwide AI privacy competition
Success for three D-INFK students at Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge in Geneva

Events
VMI Summer Retreat
Tower of Power

Please Meet...
Julia Bogdan, VIS president

Tip of the month
VMI Teaching Survey

Student corner
VIS board FS23
Bachelor Graduation

View READ.ME March 2023 here

Faculty and staff
Ce Zhang promoted to Associate Professor
Barbara Solenthaler promoted to Adjunct Professor
Farewell, Theodoros Rekatsinas
Farewell, Runbin Shi

Stories of the month
“It’s a golden age to be a cryptographer”
International Women’s Day
“I wanted to see if ETH Zurich would be a good place for me to study”
Tracing a digital shadow

Events
Informatiktage
Art & Computer Science: Games in the Expanded Field
Machine Learning for Power Systems: Is it time to trust it?
Inaugural Lecture
Digital Support Tools for Paediatric Health Seminar
SDSC-Connect 2023: Towards Biomedical Data Science

Please Meet...
Tamara Gini, Master's student

Tip of the month
Nurturing well-being

View READ.ME February 2023 here

Faculty and staff
Welcome, Onicio Batista Leal
Farewell, Nezihe Merve Gürel
Congratulations, Saikishore Kalloori

Stories of the month
"I viewed studying in Zurich as a personal challenge" (Riccardo Roveri)
“I keep track of what my lecturers are saying thanks to my tablet.” (Jan Blum)
AI research will support the analysis of large medical dataset (The LOOP Zurich)
International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Events
Informatiktage
Distinguisched Colloquium
Inaugural Lectures
International Women’s Day
Kontaktparty
Master's Graduation Ceremony
IFL (Department of Informatics UZH) Colloquia

Please Meet...
Ben Fiedler, doctoral student, Systems Group

Tip of the month
BrainFair 2023: Lernen bei Mensch und Maschine

View READ.ME January 2023 here

Faculty and staff
"The human version of the disc defragmentation problem" (Prof. Kenny Paterson)
"You feel quite proud to run it" (Prof. Timothy Roscoe)

Stories of the month
The dawn of trustworthy and cooperative artificial intelligence (Prof. Niao He)
"I think I became bilingual" (Prof. Valentina Boeva)
Vulnerabilities in secure messenger Threema discovered (Prof. Kenny Paterson, Matteo Scarlata, Kien Tuong Truong)
A bite of the Big Apple (Tamara Gini)

Prizes and awards
Torsten Hoefler, Marc Pollefeys and Zhendong Su named ACM Fellows

Events
Inaugural Lectures
Informatiktage

Please Meet...
Sandra Kübler, Restaurant Manager food&lab CAB

Tip of the month
New Communication Academy course programme online