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Rasmus Kyng has written the near-perfect algorithm. It computes the maximum transport flow at minimum cost for any kind of network – be it rail, road or electricity – at a speed that is, mathematically speaking, impossible to beat. The superfast algorithm solves a key question in theoretical computer science and lays the foundation for efficiently computing very large and dynamically changing networks in the future.

In this series of interviews, we talk to three people who decided to pursue an academic career after studying computer science and are now working as professors. In the second part, Niao He talks about the challenges of the academic path, what it means for her to be a good teacher and how working as an assistant professor has also boosted her self-confidence.

A research highlight in the December issue of Communications of the ACM is describing an award-winning publication from 2022 by Prof. Rasmus Kyng and Dr. Maximilian Probst Gutenberg from the Algorithms and Optimization Group at D-INFK and co-authors from Georgia Tech, Stanford, Waterloo and Toronto. The group developed an algorithm that computes exact maximum flows and minimum-cost flows on directed graphs.  

Professor Rasmus Kyng and Senior Assistant Maximilian Probst have received the inaugural Frontiers of Science Award for a paper they co-authored in 2022. Congratulations!

Doctoral student Fabian Laumer and his colleagues are using machine learning to develop new personalised 3D models of the beating human heart. Their objective is to assist clinicians and improve the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, the most prevalent cause of deaths worldwide.

ETH AI Center fellow Elvis Nava teaches robots to carry out oral and written commands. To this end, he sends them to “training camps” where they learn to combine image, text and motion data.

Dennis Komm joined the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich in June 2022 as Associate Professor of Algorithms and Didactics. Get to know him in this short interview.

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

In the latest episode of the ETH podcast Professors Julia Vogt and Fanny Yang explain why machine learning is an important tool in medicine.

Entering invoices, checking delivery slips, auditing expense receipts – all these tasks can be tedious and repetitive. ETH spin-off BLP Digital invented a solution to provide some relief.

Katja Wolff, a doctoral student at the Interactive Geometry Lab, has developed an algorithm that aligns textile patterns along seams.

Professors Emo Welzl and David Haussler have received the Symposium of Computational Geometry (SoCG) Test of Time Award for a paper with long-term impact they published 34 years ago. 

One of the most prestigious prizes in the area of theoretical computer science has been awarded to Robin Moser for his algorithmic version of the Lovász Local Lemma.

Dennis Hofheinz ist ab Februar 2020 offiziell als ordentlicher Professor für Informatik am Departement Informatik der ETH Zürich tätig. In diesem kurzen Interview stellt er sich vor.

Christian Schüller from the Interactive Geometry Lab has developed a method of designing patterns to assemble 3D objects with only a flat piece of fabric and a zipper.

ETH Professor and computer scientist Joachim Buhmann works intensively on healthcare issues. In an interview with ETH News, he explains how computer models will make their way into the world of medicine, and talks about models that are so complicated that humans can no longer process them alone.

Filming of spectacular action scenes is expensive and the creative possibilities are often limited. A D-INFK doctoral student has developed an algorithm that allows drones to implement the desired picture compositions independently.

At the age of 29, Professor of Computer Science Mohsen Ghaffari is one of the youngest professors at ETH Zurich. But in his native Iran he originally studied quite a different subject.

ETH Zurich’s new Game Technology Center in the Department of Computer Science will pool Swiss know-​how in the development of computer games. This was announced on Wednesday as part of the final presentation of the Game Programming Laboratory.

London, April 10th, 2012 – Today, Nature Communications, a high-​profile journal of the Nature Publishing Group (NPG), publishes the article "Discreteness-​induced concentration inversion in mesoscopic chemical systems", co-​authored by Rajesh Ramaswamy, Nélido González-​Segredo, Ivo F. Sbalzarini, all from ETHZ’s MOSAIC Group, and Ramon Grima from the University of Edinburgh.