2023 VIS Teaching Awards

Students of the department have voted for their favourite lecturers and teaching assistants. The VIS Teaching Awards winners, Angelika Steger, Dennis Hofheinz, David Basin, Ueli Maurer and Thomas Gross have been announced at the last Department Conference.

25.05.2023 by Noémie Frezel-Jacob

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At the last Department Conference, VIS President Julia Bogdan announced the winners of the 2023 VIS Teaching Awards. Students have voted for their favorite lecturers in four different categories.

The winners of the 2023 VIS Teaching Awards are:

VIS Teaching Award for Funniest Lecture – Angelika Steger, Professor of the Combinatorial Structures and Algorithms Group.
VIS Teaching Award for Best Interaction – Dennis Hofheinz (Foundations of Cryptography Group) and David Basin (Information Security Group).
VIS Teaching Award for Best Lecture Material – Ueli Maurer, Professor of the Information Security and Cryptography Group.
VIS Teaching Award for Best Organization – Thomas Gross, Professor emeritus at the department.

For the first time, teaching assistants (TAs) were also distinguished for their extra efforts to support students in lectures and practical courses. This semester’s favourite TAs are Alice La Porta, Lukas Himmelreich, Ilya Mayer, Andy Disheng An, Maximilian Schlegel, Sascha Kehrli, Marc Himmelberger, Benjamin Gruzman, Mark Sosman and Carolin Heinzler.

Students nominated and voted for at least one TA per subject taught in the first two years of the bachelor. In the future, the VIS Teaching Awards will be revealed every semester for the TAs and once a year for professors, alternating between Autumn and Spring Semesters.

2023 VIS Teaching Award winners

Teaching assistants are essential to teaching at the department, and several of them were distinguished by the VIS Teaching Awards. From left to right: Julia Bogdan (VIS President), Alice La Porta, Lukas Himmelreich, Ilya Mayer, Andy Disheng An, Maximilian Schlegel, Sascha Kehrli and Marc Himmelberger. (Picture: Sandra Herkle / D-INFK) Angelika Steger (left), Professor of the Combinatorial Structures and Algorithms Group at the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, received the VIS Teaching Award for Funniest Lecture. Julia Bogdan (right) announced the winners at the last Department Conference.
(Picture: Sandra Herkle / D-INFK) Ueli Maurer (right), Professor of the Information Security and Cryptography, received the VIS Teaching Award for Best Lecture Material. (Picture: Sandra Herkle / D-INFK) David Basin (Information Security Group) received the VIS Teaching Award for Best Interaction. (Picture: D-INFK) Dennis Hofheinz (Foundations of Cryptography Group) received the VIS Teaching Award for Best Interaction. (Picture: D-INFK) Thomas Gross, Professor emeritus, received the VIS Teaching Award for Best Organization.
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