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Professor Andreas Krause from the Department of Computer Science has been named ACM Fellow for his contributions to learning-based decision making under uncertainty. Big congratulations!

The United Nations has launched a global AI Advisory Body to work on risks, opportunities and international governance of the technology. Professor Andreas Krause, head of the Learning & Adaptive Systems Group and Chair of the ETH AI Center, is amongst the appointed experts. Congratulations!

Jonas Rothfuss, doctoral student in the Learning & Adaptive Systems group, talks to ETH Foundation about what being an Apple Scholar means for him.

Five Master's graduates from the Department of Computer Science have won prizes for their outstanding performance. Four have received the ETH Medal and one the Willi Studer Prize. Congratulations!

ETH and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems are intensifying their partnership to promote doctoral candidates and research: ETH professors Otmar Hilliges, Thomas Hofmann, Andreas Krause and Klaas P. Prüssmann are new Max Planck fellows.

The EXCLAIM research initiative is developing a new generation of high-resolution weather and climate models. D-INFK professors Torsten Hoefler and Andreas Krause, as well as the Swiss Data Science Center, are part of the multidisciplinary project.

How transparent are decisions that are based on artificial intelligence and machine learning? Professor Andreas Krause, Chair of the ETH AI Center and head of the Learning and Adaptive Systems group, shares his thoughts on trustworthy artificial intelligence.

Professor Andreas Krause, head of the Learning & Adaptive Systems Group at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, Academic Co-Director of the Swiss Data Science Center and Chair of the ETH AI Center, has been honoured with the Rössler Prize.

The doctoral student Jonas Rothfuss of the Learning and Adaptive Systems Group lead by Professor A. Krause receives an Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship.

The ETH researchers behind the spin-off LatticeFlow, among them Petar Tsankov, Pavol Bielik, Martin Vechev and Andreas Krause from our department, are aiming to facilitate a new generation of trustworthy AI.

Felix Berkenkamp, a former doctoral student in the Learning & Adaptive Systems Group, has received the annual ELLIS PhD Award for his doctoral thesis.

The newly opened ETH AI Center intensifies the dialogue with business, politics and society about an innovative and trust-​building advancement of artificial intelligence.

ETH Zurich promotes innovation in AI technology. This includes the extension of its partnership with the Max Planck Society, the launch of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) and the opening of the ETH AI Center. Professors Thomas Hofmann and Andreas Krause are at the forefront of these efforts.

The European AI network ELLIS celebrates its launch today, with ETH Zurich as a founding member. The ELLIS Unit is an integral part of the new ETH AI Center, which are both chaired by Prof. Andreas Krause.

The International Conference on Machine Learning award committee has recognized Prof. Andreas Krause and his collaborators with a Test of Time Award for the paper "Gaussian Process Optimization in the Bandit Setting: No Regret and Experimental Design". 

Three Master's graduates from the Department of Computer Science have won the ETH Medal for their outstanding Master's theses. Many congratulations!

For the fourth time, an eleven-person jury from the Swiss business magazine BILANZ has selected the one hundred most important brains at the forefront of digitalisation – Professor Srdjan Capkun, Professor Andreas Krause and alumnus Dr. Lorenz Meier are amongst them.

Prof. Andreas Krause and five further authors were honoured with lifetime achievement in their approach to outbreak detection, featured in their research paper "Cost-Effective Outbreak Detection in Networks".

Andreas Krause and David Steurer have been awarded with the Consolidator Grant for their projects in the field of learning systems and algorithmic methods. 

Congratulations to Zsolt István, Stefan Bauer, and Josip Djolonga for obtaining the ETH Medal for their outstanding doctoral theses.

In his research on machine learning and artificial intelligence, Professor Krause develops innovative models and algorithms that can optimize submodular quality functions efficiently.

ETH and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have joined forces to form a research network in learning systems.

Redmond, Washington, May 23rd, 2012 – This year’s Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow honorees span the physical globe as well as the world of computer research. The researchers are advancing computing research in novel directions with potential for high impact on the state of the art. Recipients also must demonstrate the likelihood of becoming thought leaders in their fields.

The Department of Computer Science welcomes its new Assistant Professors, Prof. Olga Sorkine und Prof. Andreas Krause. They will start teaching at the department in the Spring Semester of 2011. (German)