Our Digital Shapers 2019!
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.
Category Blockchainers: Prof. Srdjan Capkun
Srdjan Capkun is professor of information security at ETH Zurich. His research interest lies in the area of system security with a focus on wireless security. Another focus area of his are blockchain technologies. Further, the researcher and his team have developed a chip that makes keyless car locks more secure. external page Read more
Category Data Miners: Prof. Andreas Krause
How can machines learn within complex settings? This is one of the key question of Prof. Andreas Krause's research. The computer science professor leads the Learning & Adaptive Systems Group at ETH. He also serves as Academic Co-Director of the Swiss Data Science Center. Together with his colleagues, he tries to shape algorithms in a way that self-learning systems function reliably in an unstructured environment. external page Read more
Category Drone Acrobats: Dr. Lorenz Meier
With only 35 years of age, the former Department of Computer Science student Dr. Lorenz Meier has a quasi-monopoly of one of the world's most important future industries. Around three quarters of all commercial drones around the globe fly with his software. As a student, Lorenz Meier developed the flight control system PX4 and made it open source. external page Read more