Awards: 2023

Students of the department have voted for their favourite lecturers and teaching assistants. VIS President Emilia Pucher announced the winners at the last Department Conference.

Professor Ana Klimovic has been chosen for a VMware Early Career Faculty Award which identifies recently-​appointed faculty whose research interests and accomplishments seem poised to have significant impact within the industry and academia. Congratulations!

For his thesis “A Programming Language Approach to Smart Contract Privacy”, former doctoral student Dr Samuel Steffen received the prestigious ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Runner-Up Award. Congratulations!

The RACKlette team, consisting of six Computer Science Bachelor students, won the Computer Cluster Competition (SCC) at the International Supercomputing Conference in Denver, Colorado. Since the first edition of the SCC back in 2007, this is the first time that a European team has won the competition. Congratulations!

Niao He, Ana Klimovic, Rasmus Kyng and Fanny Yang are among the recipients of a SNSF Starting Grant for their respective research projects. This grant is currently awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Congratulations!

Professor Emo Welzl has been awarded the Golden Owl 2023, a distinction that honours lecturers for excellent teaching. Congratulations!

Five D-​INFK doctoral graduates have received ETH Medals for their outstanding dissertations. Congratulations, Benjamin Bichsel, Julia Chatain, Joshua Schneider, Tommaso d’Orsi, and Amir-Hossein Karimi!

For his outstanding efforts to promote entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich and beyond, Professor Marc Pollefeys has received a Dandelion Award. Congratulations!

The Times Higher Education Subject Rankings 2024 have been annouced: ETH Zurich placed among the world’s top 20 with five subjects. In Computer Science, ETH ranked 5^th. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this success.