Adrian Perrig and Olga Sorkine-Hornung elected members of SATW
Professors Adrian Perrig and Olga Sorkine-Hornung have been elected members of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW). They both were elected for their considerable track record in technical sciences. Congratulations!
The Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW has admitted 12 individual members to its network for the current year, among them our Professors Adrian Perrig and Olga Sorkine-Hornung. All elected members have considerably contributed to the field of technical sciences.
SATW is a network of eminent personalities from science and industry. Individuals who are particularly committed to the goals of SATW and/or to the technical sciences can be elected as full individual members.
Prof. Adrian Perrig is appointed Individual Member of SATW in recognition of his groundbreaking research and contributions to computer and network security, in particular for the development and introduction of the new high-security Internet SCION.
Adrian Perrig is a professor at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, where he heads the Network Security Group at the Institute for Information Security. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Cybersecurity Laboratory (CyLab) and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His research revolves around building secure systems — in particular, his group is working on the SCION secure Internet architecture. Perrig has received the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award and is a member of ACM and IEEE.
Prof. Olga Sorkine-Hornung is appointed Individual Member of SATW in recognition of her outstanding research and development contributions in the field of computer graphics and geometric modeling, digital geometry processing, computer animation and visual computing.
Olga Sorkine-Hornung is a professor of computer science at ETH Zurich, where she leads the Interactive Geometry Lab at the Institute for Visual Computing. Her work focuses on the theoretical foundations and practical algorithms for digital content creation tasks, such as shape representation and editing, artistic modeling techniques, digital fabrication, computer animation and digital image manipulation. Further, she also investigates fundamental challenges in digital geometry processing, including reconstruction, filtering, parameterization, meshing and compression of geometric data. She has received multiple awards, including the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award.