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Menna El-Assady honoured with Significant New Researcher Award
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Professor Mennatallah El-Assady, head of the Interactive Visualization and Intelligence Augmentation Lab at the Department of Computer Science (D-INFK), has been awarded the 2024 Visualization Significant New Researcher Award at the IEEE VIS Conference. The prize honours her ground-breaking work at the intersection of visualization and machine learning. Congratulations!
Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for Torsten Hoefler
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Professor Torsten Hoefler (D-INFK), Head of the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory at the Department of Computer Science, has been awarded the prestigious Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for his research in the field of computer science. Congratulations!
Barbara Solenthaler and team win Frontiers of Science Award
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Professor Barbara Solenthaler (D-INFK) and her co-authors were awarded the prize in the category Theoretical Computer and Information Sciences. The Frontiers of Science Award is given every year to recent papers recognised for a major breakthrough in their fields.
Eurographics Gold Medal for Markus Gross
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(D-INFK)?Professor Markus Gross receives the Eurographics Medal 2024 for his outstanding research contributions, for his contributions to bridging industry and academia and for his leadership in the field at large. Big congratulations!
Andreas Krause named ACM Fellow
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Professor Andreas Krause from the Department of Computer Science has been named ACM Fellow for?his contributions to learning-?based decision making under uncertainty. Big congratulations!
Andreas Krause appointed expert to UN's High-level AI Advisory Body
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The?United Nations?has launched a global AI Advisory Body to work on risks, opportunities and international governance of the technology. Professor Andreas Krause (D-INFK), head of the Learning & Adaptive Systems Group and Chair of the?ETH AI Center, is amongst the appointed experts. Congratulations!
Prof. Gustavo Alonso receives EuroSys Lifetime Achievement Award
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Professor Gustavo Alonso (D-INFK) has received the prestigious?EuroSys Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding technical contributions to the field of computer systems.?
Torsten Hoefler earns first Jack Dongarra Early Career Award
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Professor Torsten Hoefler (D-INFK), Head of the Institute for High Performance Computing Systems, is the inaugural recipient of the Jack Dongarra Early Career Award. Big congratulations!
Torsten Hoefler, Marc Pollefeys and Zhendong Su named ACM Fellows
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Torsten Hoefler, Marc Pollefeys and Zhendong Su, professors at the Department of Computer Science, have been named ACM Fellows. The distinction recognises the extensive research contributions in their respective fields.?
Olga Sorkine-Hornung wins SGP test-of-time award
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At the Symposium on Geometry Processing, professor Olga Sorkine-?Hornung received a test-?of-time award for a paper she wrote fifteen years ago. Congratulations!
2022 ACM Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award for Manuela Fischer
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Manuela Fischer, former doctoral student at the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science the Department of Computer Science, receives the 2022 ACM Principles of Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award. Congratulations!?
Adrian Perrig wins IEEE S&P test-of-time award
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At the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2022, professor Adrian Perrig and his colleagues received a test-?of-time award for their first publication on the SCION network technology. Perrig heads the Network Security Group at the Department of Computer Science and is the inventor of SCION. Congratulations!?
CAST/GI Promotion Award IT-Sicherheit for Kristina Hostáková
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Kristina Hostáková, postdoc in the Foundations of Cryptography Group at the Department of Computer Science was given the CAST/GI Promotion Award IT-?Sicherheit. The award honours doctoral theses that promote advancements in IT security and make IT applications more secure.
Otto Hahn Medal for Alexis Block
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The Max Planck Society honours Alexis Block, a former?doctoral student at the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems,?with the prestigious Otto Hahn Medal for her fundamental and innovative research in the field of human-?robot interaction.
2022 ICSE MIP Award for Zhendong Su
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Professor Zhendong Su (D-INFK) is awarded the prestigious ICSE Most Influential Paper Award for the paper "On the Naturalness of Software".?The paper emerged from a collaboration with former students and colleagues at UC Davis.
Adrian Perrig and Torsten Hoefler named IEEE Fellows
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Professor Adrian Perrig (D-INFK) and Professor Torsten Hoefler (D-INFK) have been named IEEE Fellows. The prestigious grade of IEEE Fellow is conferred upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.
Markus Gross appointed member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering
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Professor Markus Gross (D-INFK), head of the Computer Graphics Laboratory at ETH Zurich and Vice President of Research for The Walt Disney Studios, has been appointed a member of acatech.
Markus Gross receives 2021 Steven Anson Coons Award
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D-INFK Prof. Markus Gross is presented with the ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Steven Anson Coons Award for outstanding creative contributions to computer graphics.?He is being recognised for his contributions in geometry processing, physically-based simulation, and face capturing and animation, as well as his contributions in bridging industry and academia in computer graphics.?
Olga Sorkine-Hornung named ACM Fellow
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D-?INFK Professor Olga Sorkine-?Hornung has been named an ACM Fellow for her?contributions to digital geometry processing, computer animation, computer graphics and visual computing.
Olga Sorkine-Hornung and Torsten Hoefler receive 2 ERC Consolidator Grants
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Prof. Olga Sorkine-Hornung (D-INFK) and Prof. Torsten Hoefler (D-INFK) have been honoured with 2 ERC Consolidator Grants for the outstanding work in their respective research field. Whereas Torsten Hoefler focuses on high-performance computing systems, Olga Sorkine-Hornung does research in the area of computer graphics.
Prof. David Basin named IEEE Fellow
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Professor David Basin (D-INFK) has been named an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to formal methods for information security. The prestigious grade of IEEE Fellow is conferred upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.
Prof. Torsten Hoefler receives BenchCouncil Rising Star Award
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The International Open Benchmark Council committee has recognized Professor Torsten Hoefler (D-INFK) with the BenchCouncil Rising Star Award for his valuable work in the field of benchmark testing, metrics and optimization.
Prof. Timothy Roscoe receives SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award
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Timothy Roscoe (D-INFK) from the Systems Group at the Department of Computer Science received the SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award for the paper “The Multikernel: A New OS Architecture for Scalable Multicore Systems”, which he co-authored in 2009.?This paper formed the basis for the research operating system Barrelfish.
Dr. Zuzana Trubini and Dr. Martin Hirt receive TCC Test-of-Time Award
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Zuzana Trubini and Martin Hirt receive the prestigious TCC Test-of-Time Award?for their 2008 paper titled "Perfectly-Secure MPC with Linear Communication Complexity".?The award committee recognises the paper for introducing hyper-?invertible matrices to perfectly secure multiparty computation.
Prof. Andreas Krause receives ICML Test of Time Award
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The ICML award committee has awarded Andreas Krause (D-INFK) and his collaborators with a Test of Time Award for a paper published 10 years ago. The paper was recognized in particular for the depth and breadth of the impact it has had over the past ten years.
Hollywood honours Markus Gross
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Great honour for Markus Gross. The Vice President of Research at The Walt Disney Studios and Director of DisneyResearch|Studios in Zurich and Professor of Computer Graphics at ETH Zurich has been? invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Adrian Perrig receives four Test-of-Time awards at single conference
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Nine papers, which have withstood the test of time,?were?awarded at the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, held from 18-20 May 2020. Adrian Perrig (D-INFK) received awards for four of them - an unprecedented achievement.
TUM-IAS Hans-Fischer Fellowship for Dr. Barbara Solenthaler
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Dr. Barbara Solenthaler from the?Computer Graphics Laboratory (D-INFK) has received the prestigious TUM-IAS Hans-Fischer Fellowship.
Tech Oscar for Professor Markus Gross and Disney Research
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Professor Markus Gross of D-INFK and Dr. Thabo Beeler,?Derek Bradley and?Bernd Bickel?of Disney Research will be honored with a Tech Oscar by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the conception, design and engineering of the Medusa Performance Capture System.
Professor Onur Mutlu named as IEEE Fellow
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Onur Mutlu, Professor of Computer Science (D-INFK), has been named an IEEE Fellow. He is recognized for his contributions to computer architecture research and practice.
Dr. Petar Tsankov wins John Atanasoff Award
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Dr. Petar Tsankov from the Secure, Reliable, and Intelligent Systems Lab (SRI) has received the John Atanasoff President's Award in Bulgaria.