Awards: 2024
2024 VIS Teaching Awards
Students of the department have voted for their favourite teaching assistants. VIS board member Efe Berke Alıcı announced the winners at the last Department Conference. Congratulations to all the recipients!
CYD Award 2024 for SCION
Professors David Basin, Peter Müller and Adrian Perrig, and the whole team behind the SCION next-generation Internet, were honoured with the armasuisse Cyber-Defence Campus award "Rising security technology". Congratulations to the whole team! Learn more about SCION:
CSNOW receives recognition at the ETH Diversity Award 2024
We are proud to announce that CSNOW (Network of Women* in Computer Science) has been awarded 2nd place at the ETH Diversity Award 2024. The award honours the achievements of members of the ETH community for their work to promote inclusion and diversity. Congratulations!
Outstanding doctoral theses 2024
Five D-INFK doctoral graduates have received ETH Medals for their outstanding dissertations. Congratulations, Charlotte Bunne, Jingxuan He, Antonio Orvieto, Václav Rozhoň and Paul-Edouard Sarlin!
Golden Owl for Timothy Roscoe
Professor Timothy Roscoe, head of the Network and Operating Systems Group at the Department of Computer Science, has been awarded the Golden Owl 2024. The distinction honours lecturers for their excellent teaching. Congratulations!
Google PhD Fellowships 2024
Parnian Kassraie, Simon Meierhans, and Lorenzo Noci, all three of them doctoral students at the Department of Computer Science, have been awarded the Google PhD Fellowship. The programme was created to recognize outstanding students doing innovative research in areas relevant to computer science. Congratulations!
Award for Contribution to Education and Science for Martin Vechev
The University of Library Studies and Information Technologies (Sofia, Bulgaria) has awarded the National Award for Contribution to Education and Science 2024 to Professor Martin Vechev. The award was presented as part of the Day of the Awakeners. Congratulations!
Menna El-Assady honoured with Significant New Researcher Award
Professor Mennatallah El-Assady, head of the Interactive Visualization and Intelligence Augmentation Lab, has been awarded the 2024 Visualization Significant New Researcher Award at the IEEE VIS Conference. The prize honours her ground-breaking work at the intersection of visualization and machine learning. Congratulations!
David Basin wins Dandelion Award 2024
The Dandelion Award is regularly given to ETH professors who have shown outstanding commitment to promoting entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich and beyond. This year, Professor David Basin was honored for his achievements. Congratulations!
IEEE TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Maciej Besta
The IEEE Computer Society TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing recognises individuals who have made outstanding contributions in high-performance computing within five years of receiving their doctorate. Dr Maciej Besta from ETH Zurich is one of those honoured people. Congratulations!