Faculty
Test-of-Time Award for Ralf Jung
The ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2025) has recognised Professor Ralf Jung and his collaborators with a Test-of-Time Award for the paper "Iris: Monoids and Invariants as an Orthogonal Basis for Concurrent Reasoning". Big congratulations!
In memory of Prof. em. Urs Hochstrasser: A lifelong contributor to our department
ETH Zurich bids farewell to Prof. em. Urs Hochstrasser, who passed away on January 21, 2025, at the age of 99. A distinguished figure closely connected to our department, his contributions are fondly remembered. We refer to the symposium held in his honour on January 12, 2016.
Andreas Krause named IEEE Fellow
Professor Andreas Krause from the Department of Computer Science has been named IEEE Fellow for his contributions to active sensing, Bayesian optimization and learning-based control. Big congratulations!
Vera Traub appointed as Associate Professor of Theoretical Computer Science
Vera Traub, currently Professor at the University of Bonn, is a prize-winning scientist in the field of approximation algorithms and combinatorial optimisation. Her research sheds light on fundamental questions to do with the efficient computation of solutions for difficult optimisation problems.
Welcome, Michal Friedman
Michal Friedman will take up her position as Tenure Track Assistant Professor in December. In this interview, she talks about why she decided to pursue an academic career, what goals she'd like to achieve at ETH Zurich, and recommends a piece of pop culture, which revolves around a very famous computer scientist.
Faculty at the Department of Computer Science
Mind the GAP! Getting Academic Positions Interview Series
Would you like to know more about transitioning from a doctorate or a postdoctoral research position to a faculty position? In the interview series "GAP: Getting Academic Positions", young faculty members from ETH Zurich and other universities share their experiences and insights about this process.
