Awards: 2019
Dr. David Cock wins ACM SIGOPS 2019 Hall of Fame award
Dr. David Cock, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Computing Platforms, received the ACM SIGOPS 2019 Hall of Fame award for a paper he co-authored ten years ago.
Professor David Basin chosen as SATW member
Professor David Basin has been selected as an individual member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW).
Professor Markus Püschel named IEEE Fellow
We are proud to announce that Professor Markus Püschel has been named an IEEE Fellow. He is being recognised for contributions to the implementation of signal processing techniques.
Prof. Gustavo Alonso and co-authors receive ACM/IFIP/Usenix International Middleware Conference 2019 Test-of-Time Award
Congratulations to Ioana Giurgiu, Oriana Riva, Dejan Juric, Ivan Krivulev, and Gustavo Alonso who have been awarded the Test-of-Time Award of the ACM/IFIP/Usenix International Middleware Conference 2019 for their paper “Calling the Cloud: Enabling mobile phones as interfaces to cloud applications", published in Middleware 2009.
Donation from Werner Siemens Foundation for Center for Digital Trust research project
A donation from the Werner Siemens Foundation is helping to finance a project in which ETH researchers are looking to develop a fundamentally new security architecture.
Prof. Srdjan Capkun recognised as ACM Fellow
Congratulations to Prof. Srdjan Capkun for receiving this fellowship for his contributions to systems and wireless network security. Its most prestigious member grade, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) annually recognises the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology as well as their service to the computing community.
Barbara Solenthaler receives BRCCH grant
Senior scientist Dr. Barbara Solenthaler received one of the first grants from the Botnar Research Centre for Child Health. Her project aims to optimise the surgical treatment of cleft lip and palate with the use of machine learning algorithms, smartphone images and 3D printing.
ERC Consolidator Grant for Stelian Coros
Professor Stelian Coros has received an ERC Consolidator Grant. He aims to develop the computational and mathematical foundations for robots that exploit compliant materials as effectively as humans and animals do.
Student award winners at SC19
Congratulations to Marcin Copik as well as Grzegorz Kwasniewski and team for winning major student awards at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC19) in Denver, USA.
Team from Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory wins ACM Gordon Bell Prize
The ACM Gordon Bell Prize, the most prestigious prize in the area of supercomputing, has been awarded to two research teams from the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical Engineering for developing a simulation that maps heat in transistors.