Non-Faculty Awards
Our doctoral students and young researchers have been successful in winning international recognition, through PhD fellowships, leadership awards, best dissertation awards and research awards.
2022 - Marcin Copik: ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship
2022 - Clara Meister: Google PhD Fellowship
2022 - Yufeng Zheng: Meta PhD Fellowship
2021 - Marcin Copik: Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship
2020 - Yifan Wang: Apple PhD Fellowship
2019 - Barbara Solenthaler: TUM-IAS Hans-Fischer Fellowship
2019 - Francesco Locatello: Google PhD Fellowship
2019 - Timon Gehr: IBM PhD Fellowship Award
2018 - Andrea Lattuada: Google European Doctoral Fellowship
2018 - Manuela Fischer: Google European Doctoral Fellowship
2017 - Pavol Bielik: Facebook PhD Fellowship
2015 - Maciej Besta: George Michael HPC Fellowship
2015 - Victoria Caparrós Cabezas: Google European Doctoral Fellowship
2015 - Josip Djolonga: Google European Doctoral Fellowship
2015 - Veselin Raychev: IBM PhD Fellowship
2015 - Thomas Schöps: Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
2015 - Adish Singla: Facebook PhD Fellowship
2014 - Yuxin Chen: Google European Doctoral Fellowship
2014 - Marcelo Matheus Gauy: Phd Science without Borders
2014 - Jana Giceva: Google European Doctoral Fellowship
2014 - Frank Mousset: Fonds National de la Recherche
2014 - Tobias Nägeli: Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
2013 - Maciej Besta: Google European Doctoral Fellowship
2013 - Bernhard Zeisl: Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
2012 - Alec Jacobson: Intel PhD Fellowship
2012 - Lorenz Meier: Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
2011 - Christian Beckel: Bosch Hans L. Merkle Foundation
2011 - Bruno José Conchinha Montalto: Google European Doctoral Fellowship
2010 - Roland Angst: Google European Doctoral Fellowship
2010 - Tim Kraska: SNSF Prospective Researcher Fellowship
2010 - Pravin Shinde: Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship
2023 - Samuel Steffen: ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Runner-Up Award
2023 - Yifan Wang: Eurographics PhD Award
2023 - Gaspard Zoss: Eurographics PhD Award
2022 - Maciej Besta: SIGHPC Doctoral Dissertation Award
2022 - Manuela Fischer: ACM Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award
2022 - Kristina Hostáková: CAST/GI Promotionspreis IT-Sicherheit
2021 - Gagandeep Singh: ACM SIGPLAN Dissertation Award
2021 - Goran Zuzic: Principles of Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award for best thesis
2021 - Maciej Besta: IEEE TCSC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award
2021 - Irene Baeza Rojo: EuroVis Best PhD Dissertation Award
2021 - Lisa Kohl: Uniserv-Forschungspreis, best dissertation in the area of algorithms for efficient data processing
2020 - Felix Berkenkamp: ELLIS PhD Award
2019 - Felix Günther: ERCIM STM WG Award for Best PhD Thesis on Security and Trust Management
2019 - Felix Günther: ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award for Outstanding PhD Theses in Computer and Information Security
2019 - Pascal Bérard: Eurographics PhD Award for the Best Thesis
2016 - Veselin Raychev: ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention
2015 - Karl Bringman: EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award
2015 - Maria Christakis: EAPLS Best PhD Dissertation Award
2014 - Alec Jacobson: Eurographics Annual Award, Best PhD thesis
2014 - Jie Song: Winner Swisscom ICT Thesis Award
2014 - Cengiz Oeztireli: Eurographics Annual Award, Best PhD thesis
2013 - Peter Gaži: ISSS Excellence Award, PhD thesis
2012 - Heidi Gebauer: Richard Rado Prize, outstanding dissertation
2012 - Robin Moser: GI-Dissertationspreis, best dissertation in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
2010 - René Müller: Fritz Kutter Award
2010 - Konstantinos Panagiotou: Richard Rado Prize, outstanding dissertation
2007 - Sebastian Mödersheim: ABB Research Award
2006 - Renato Renner: ACM-GI Dissertation Award
2006 - Michael Rohs: Fritz Kutter Award
2022 - Shaohua Li: Meta Security Research Award
2021 - Vinicius Azevedo: SCA Early Career Researcher Award
2021 - Tobias Günther: Eurographics Young Researcher Award
2019 - Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas, Tal Ben-Nun, Timo Schneider: ACM Gordon Bell Prize
2019 - Tal Ben-Nun: SNSF Ambizione Grant
2019 - Christian Badertscher: ISSS Excellence Award
2017 - Tobias Grosser: SNSF Ambizione Fellowship
2015 - Alexander J. Summers: AITO Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize
2012 - Marco Trudel: Hasler Pioneer Fellowship
2012 - Philipp Unterbrunner: Chorafas Foundation Award
2012 - Vassilis Zikas: SNSF Ambizione Grant
2010 - Robert Adelmann: Hasler Pioneer Fellowship
2010 - Oriana Riva: SNSF Ambizione Grant
2009 - Jens Teubner: SNSF Ambizione Grant
2023 - Maximilian Probst: Frontiers of Science Award
2022 - Manuela Fischer: Chorafas Prize
2022 - Alexis Block: Otto Hahn Medal
2021 - Zhehao He: Xilinx XACC Outstanding Contributions Award
2020 - Johannes Schönberger: ECCV Mark Everingham Prize
2020 - Martin Hirt: Theory of Cryptography Conference "Test-of-Time" Award
2020 - Robin Moser: Gödel Prize
2019 - Marcin Copik: ACM Student Research Competition Gold Medal
2018 - Felix Weissenberger: Hojjat Adeli Award for Outstanding Contributions in Neural Systems
The Fritz Kutter Prize is awarded in recognition of valuable practice-oriented computer science theses. The Fritz Kutter Fund is administered by ETH Zurich, but the prize can be awarded to any graduate of a Swiss university. Only the professors can submit nominations for the respective theses.
2023 - Sankalan Pal Chowdhury: A Dialogue Tutoring Dataset with Rich Pedagogical Properties Grounded in Math Reasoning Problems
2022 - Emre Aksan: Learning Representations for Generative Modeling of Human Dynamics
2022 - Muyu Li: Efficiently Scheduling Remote And Local Resources in ML Data Input Pipeline
2020 - Nina Wiedemann: Algorithmic Approaches for Optimizing Linear Infrastructure Planning
2019 - Celestine Mendler-Dünner: System-Aware Algorithms For Machine Learning
2018 - Manuel Le Gallo: Phase-Change Memory: Device Physics and Application to non-von Neumann Computing
2017 - Thijs Vogels: Kernel-Predicting Convolutional Neural Networks for Denoising Monte-Carlo Renderings
2015 - Tanja Kaeser Jacober: Modeling and Optimizing Computer-Assisted Mathematics Learning in Children
2011 - Sukriti Ramesh: CrowdDB – Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing
2010 - René Müller: Data Stream Processing on Embedded Devices
2009 - Babara Solenthaler: Incompressible Fluid Simulation and Advanced Surface Handling with SPH
2008 - Noe Lutz: Towards Revealing Attackers’ Intent by Automatically Decrypting Network Traffic
2006 - Jörg Wagner: Analysis of Dynamics in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
2006 - Michael Rohs: Linking Physical and Virtual Worlds with Visual Markers and Handheld Devices
2005 - Christoph Göldi and Roman Hiestand: Scan Detection Based Identification of Worm-Infected Hosts
2004 - Jonas Trindler and Raphael Zwiker: Adaptive Building Intelligence
2001 - Roger Weber: Similarity Search in High-Dimensional Vector Spaces
2001 - Martin Gantenbein: The Train Length Problem
2000 - Raimond Reichert: Ein spielerischer Einsteig ins Programmieren: Kara, der programmierbare Marienkäfer
1997 - Martin Braschler: Experimente mit sprachübergreifender Informationssuche
1996 - Stefan Wengi: Eine Benutzerverwaltung für RDFS
1996 - Thomas Sprenger: Software- und Hardwareimplementation der IrDA-Protokollstack
1995 - Gerard Milmeister: Functional Kernel with Modules
1994 - Martin Wechsler: Ermittlung der Retrieval-Effektivität eines Speech Retrieval Systems
1993 - Alex Birrer: Entwurf eines Datenmodells fü die Verwaltung und Analyse von Bienengesundheitsdaten
1992 - Ambros Marzetta: Hochleistungs-Transportprotokoll für transaktionsorientierte Anwendungen
1992 - Rene W. Keller: Entwicklung einer Retrieval-Komponente für ein Speech Retrieval System