Awards & Grants
Ana Klimovic wins EuroSys Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award
Professor Ana Klimovic, who leads the Efficient Architectures and Systems Lab at ETH Zurich, has been honoured with the prestigious EuroSys Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award. The award was created in 2014 by ACM EuroSys to reward junior European researchers who have demonstrated exceptional creativity and innovation in systems research. Congratulations!
Apple scholarship for Haofei Xu
Haofei Xu, doctoral student in the Computer Vision and Geometry Group of Prof. Marc Pollefeys, is among the 2025 recipients of the Apple Scholars in AIML PhD fellowship. The Apple Scholars in AIML PhD fellowship programme supports emerging leaders in academic research. Congratulations!
Super-fast computers for AI: Torsten Hoefler awarded prestigious ACM Prize
Torsten Hoefler wins the prestigious ACM Prize in Computing for his pioneering work in high-performance computing. The fact that supercomputers have become so powerful that AI models can be trained very quickly with very large volumes of data is partly down to his research.
Giulio Carassai wins Walter Saxer Prize
Giulio Carassai, former Master's student in Data Science at the Department of Computer Science, was awarded the Walter-Saxer-Versicherungs-Hochschulpreis (insurance prize) 2025 for his Master's thesis: "Neural Optimal Transport at Scale: Wasserstein Barycenters for Fair Insurance". Congratulations!
DisneyResearch|Studios technology receives Sci-Tech Oscar
DisneyResearch|Studios, a close partner of ETH Zurich and led by Computer Science Professor Markus Gross, has been selected to receive a Scientific and Technical Award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for its Machine Learning Denoiser technology. The Academy recognises technologies that have proven to add significant value to the process of making motion pictures.