Five doctoral graduates receive ETH Medals
Five D-INFK doctoral graduates have received ETH Medals for their outstanding dissertations. Congratulations, Benjamin Bichsel, Julia Chatain, Joshua Schneider, Tommaso d’Orsi, and Amir-Hossein Karimi!
Outstanding doctoral theses are honoured with the Silver Medal of ETH Zurich and a financial sum. Five doctoral graduates from the Department of Computer Science have received the prestigious honour: Benjamin Bichsel, Julia Chatain, Joshua Schneider, Tommaso d’Orsi, and Amir-Hossein Karimi. Big congratulations on this achievement!
The prizes will be awarded at the doctoral awards ceremony.
![Benjamin Bichsel](/news-and-events/spotlights/infk-news-channel/2023/11/five-doctoral-graduates-receive-eth-medals/_jcr_content/wide_content/textimage_1482781225/image.imageformat.textdouble.1349172243.jpg)
Benjamin Bichsel
Thesis: High-Level Quantum Programming
Supervisor: Prof. Martin Vechev
Group: Secure, Reliable, and Intelligent Systems Lab (SRI)
![Julia Chatain](/news-and-events/spotlights/infk-news-channel/2023/11/five-doctoral-graduates-receive-eth-medals/_jcr_content/wide_content/textimage_1433955740/image.imageformat.textdouble.58379096.jpg)
Julia Chatain
Thesis: Embodied Interaction in Virtual Reality for Grounding Mathematics
Supervisor: Prof. Bob Sumner
Group: Game Technology Center
![Tommaso D'Orsi](/news-and-events/spotlights/infk-news-channel/2023/11/five-doctoral-graduates-receive-eth-medals/_jcr_content/wide_content/textimage_599705184/image.imageformat.textdouble.117533024.png)
Tommaso d’Orsi
Thesis: Information-Computation Gaps in Robust Statistics
Supervisor: Prof. David Steurer
Group: Computational Complexity, Optimization, and Estimation Group
![Amir Karimi](/news-and-events/spotlights/infk-news-channel/2023/11/five-doctoral-graduates-receive-eth-medals/_jcr_content/wide_content/textimage_596148119/image.imageformat.textdouble.1159097385.jpg)
Amir-Hossein Karimi
Thesis: Advances in Algorithmic Recourse: Ensuring Causal Consistency, Fairness, & Robustness
Supervisor: Prof. Bernhard Schölkopf
Group: Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
![Joshua Schneider](/news-and-events/spotlights/infk-news-channel/2023/11/five-doctoral-graduates-receive-eth-medals/_jcr_content/wide_content/textimage_2072924945/image.imageformat.textdouble.1171684682.png)
Joshua Schneider
Thesis: Scalable and Trustworthy Monitoring
Supervisor: Prof. David Basin
Group: Information Security Group