Short news: 2020

Theodoros Rekatsinas has been appointed Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science. He researches databases, data processing and data science.

Professor Onur Mutlu has left the Department of Computer Science to join the Department of Electiral Engineering. He remains affiliated with D-​INFK and will continue to teach and mentor students. 

Prof. Torsten Hoefler, head of the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory, has been promoted to Full Professor. He has won many awards and is known for his commitment to teaching.

DeepCode, a spin-​off of the Secure, Reliable and Intelligent Systems Lab that built the first AI platform for code, is to be acquired by Snyk, a world leader in developer-​first security code analysis.

Dr. Shweta Shivaji Shinde’s research focuses on the overlaps between trusted computing, systems security and programme analysis.

David Steurer, currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Theoretical Computer Science, has been promoted to Associate Professor. His research focuses on complexity theory. 

Prof. Niao He’s research explores the point at which the optimisation of large-​scale systems intersects with machine learning techniques.

ETH Zurich is one of four selected universities around the world to establish adaptive compute research clusters with teams from Xilinx, a company that develops highly flexible and adaptive processing platforms to enable rapid innovation across a variety of technologies.

To better track the coronavirus in Switzerland, biomedical informatics specialists from ETH Zurich and the canton of Bern have combined their online questionnaires on the shared platform covidtracker.ch.