READ.ME - Archive 2022

View READ.ME December 2022 here

Faculty and staff
New composition of the department's Executive Board
Kristina Hostakova appointed to senior assistant
Welcome, Natasha Fischer-Vaidya
Welcome, Zebang Shen
Farewell, Anna Ettlin
Welcome, Sandra Jedrinovic
Welcome, Ulrike von Groll
Welcome, Noémie Frezel Jacob

Stories of the month
Art made by humans or computers?
More precise treatment with AI
In search for the intelligent machine

Prizes and awards
Srdjan Capkun and Zhendong Su named IEEE Fellows
D-INFK students become European Champions

Past events
Distinguished Colloquium
ETH Unterwegs
Glühwein-Apéro

Please meet...
Alexandra Maximova, doctoral student

Tip of the month
Extended library opening hours

View READ.ME November 2022 here

Faculty and staff
Welcome, Professor Ralf Jung
Meet our eight new ESOP scholars
Rest in peace, Frederick Brooks
Marc Pollefeys appointed to core faculty at ETH AI Center
Welcome, Pier Giuseppe Sessa
Welcome, Lucas Slot
Farewell, Dmitrii Ustiugov
Farewell, Zhikuan Zhao
Farewell, Matthias Frei

Prizes and awards
Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching for Ghislain Fourny
Kenny Paterson receives Golden Owl
Dandelion Award for Martin Vechev
Three D-INFK papers win at ACM CCS 2022
Four doctoral graduates receive ETH Medals

Upcoming events
LauzHack – EPFL’s largest hackathon, 3 and 4 December
Distinguished Colloquium: Machine Learning: A Data-Centric Perspective, 5 December
Distinguished Colloquium: Mining Genomic Resources for Antimicrobial Peptides, 12 December
Glühwein-Apéro, 19 December

Past events
Inaugural lectures
Nationaler Zukunftstag 2022

Please meet...
Malte Schwerhoff, lecturer and educational developer

Open positions
We are hiring faculty
Software engineer to develop scientific software (60%-100%)
Five internships at ETH Studio Davos

Tip of the month
All about compliance

View READ.ME October here

Faculty and staff
Johanna Pirker: "Games are empathy machines"
New affiliated professor Ulrik Brandes
Farewell, Simona Bochsler
Welcome, Hermann Blum
Welcome, Alex Warstadt
Welcome, Juan David Guarnizo
Welcome, Alessandro Torcinovich
Congratulations, Marco Eilers

Stories of the month
The joy of getting things off the ground
Science for humanitarian action
Trying on clothes virtually

Prizes and awards
Torsten Hoefler receives the Sidney Fernbach Award
George Michael Memorial Fellowship for Marcin Copik
D-INFK places fourth in THE subject ranking
Swiss women win medals at European Girls' Olympiad in Informatics

Upcoming events
Zero Trust in Zero Trust? (Distinguished Colloquium), 31 October
ETH Global Lecture by Ed Catmull, 2 November
Inaugural Lectures Niao He and Zhendong Su, 7 November
Art & Computer Science – "Interactive Animation", 9 November

Past events
Congratulations to our graduates
A successful edition of VIScon

Please meet...
Pascal Kogelmann, study counsellor

Open positions
Student programmer for CYBATHLON
Peer-to-peer counsellor at the association of scientific staff (VMI)
Open call: AI + Art with photographer Herlinde Koelbl

Tips of the month
New guidelines for research data management
ETH Zurich implements initial energy-saving measures

View READ.ME September here

Faculty and staff
Congratulations, Felix Friedrich
Farewell, Franziska Hefti
Welcome, Johanna Pirker
Welcome, Virgil Gligor
Welcome, Maria Korosteleva
Welcome, Majed El Helou
Welcome, Ethan Wilcox
Dieter Schwarz Foundation funds professorships and AI Center fellows

Stories of the month
“Studying at Princeton was a completely different experience”
Breathing life into video pixels  

Prizes and awards
Meta Security Research Award for Zhendong Su and Shaohua Li
Chorafas Prize for Manuela Fischer
ETH Medals and Willi Studer Prize
DARPA Grant for Theo Rekatsinas

Upcoming events
INSAIT Conference, 30 September – 1 October
Talk by game developer Patrice Désilets, 4 October
Distinguished Colloquium, 10 October and 31 October
VIScon Symposium, 15 October
Scale TransformX, 19 – 21 October
ETH-Klimarunde 2022: Wetterextreme im Klimawandel, 20 October
Cyber Group student events in October
Master's graduation ceremony, 21 October

Past events
Meeting future students in person again
Great demand for try-out week for women

Please meet...
Selina Kelsang Tschöny O’Kervin, Head of the Computer Science Library

Open positions
Two positions at the Swiss Data Science Center
Administrative Assistant for the Systems Group

Tips of the month
Multi-factor authentication
food&lab is open again

View READ.ME August 2022 here

Faculty and staff
Welcome, Professor Florian Tramèr
Welcome, Anpei Chen
Farewell, Katharina Emry
Farewell, Fernando Virdia
Farewell, Daniele De Sensi
Farewell, Stéphane Magnenat

Prizes and awards
SIGHPC Dissertation Award for Maciej Besta
Bilanz Digital Shapers

Story of the month
Jascha Grübel, Dr. Fabio Zünd: Augmented reality for dental specialists

Upcoming events
Paul Bernays Lectures, 31 August - 1 September
Study Information Days, 7 - 8 September 2022
ETH Industry Day, 7 September 2022
Schnupperstudium CSNOW, 12 - 16 September 2022
Digital Festival Zurich, 16 - 20 September 2022
AI+X Summit, 14 October 2022

Past events
International Olympiad in Informatics
Farewell, SSRF students

Please meet...
Raphael Steiner, ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellow in the Combinatorial Structures and Algorithms Group

Open positions
Two positions at the Swiss Data Science Center
Postdoctoral Researcher – machine learning with medical applications
Student assistant for HoloLens project
Junior Research Engineer in computer science

Tip of the month
Polish your communications skills

View READ.ME June 2022 here

Faculty and staff
Welcome, Dennis Komm
Welcome, Mihir Bellare
New role for Malte Schwerhoff
Farewell, Tobias Klenze
Farewell, Paolo Penna
Farewell, Byuongsoo Kim
Farewell, Mohsen Ghaffari
Farewell, Manuel Rigger
Rest in peace, Octavian Ganea

Prizes and awards
Adrian Perrig wins IEEE S&P test-of-time award
Manuela Fischer wins 2022 ACM Distributed Comuting Doctoral Dissertation Award

Story of the month
Vulnerabilities in Mega cloud service  (Kenny Paterson, Matilda Backendal, Miro Haller)
Rewind reality and experience it again (Christian Holz, Andreas R. Fender)
Avatars populate a utopian city (Siyu Tang)

Upcoming events
CSNOW Summer Apéro
Call for exhibition, VIScon
Application open, HackZurich

Past events
"Schweizer Tag für den Informatikunterricht" STIU

Please meet...
Cléa Benz, Alumna, android developer at Unique

Open positions
Cyber-Defence Fellowships
Software Engineer at the Institute for Machine Learning
Mobile Application Developer at the Professorship for Learning Sciences and Higher Education

CAS/DAS Cyber Security

Tips of the month
Explore works of art over lunch
Corporate carpooling between ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute PSI

Corporate Communications seeks students for workshop

View READ.ME May 2022 here

Faculty and staff
Welcome, Theodoros Rekatsinas
Welcome, Jean Cardinal
Welcome, Annemarie Passchier
Additional role for Fabio Zünd
Farewell, Severin Klingler
Farewell, Chih-Hung Liu

Prizes and awards
ETH Medals and Willi Studer Prizes for Master's graduates
Success at the Geneva Cyber 9/12 Challenge 2022

Story of the month
"Cyber security means freedom": Interview vith ETH Cyber Group

Upcoming events
Final Presentation Game Programming Laboratory
Projects and Offers for the "Nationaler Zukunftstag" at ETH

Past events
Distinguished Colloquium
International Championship of Mathematical and Logical Games

Please meet...
Mirjam Rösli, room and site planning officer, member of the Department Administration

Open positions
Postdoctoral Researcher in Visual Computing
Postdoctoral Researcher in Machine Learning with Medical Applications
Product Manager LatticeFlow
Several positions at Anapaya Systems
Junior Reserach Engineer at ETH Media Technology Center

Tips of the month
Email archiving
Recall ETH equipment

View READ.ME April 2022 here

Faculty and staff
Welcome, Zichen Gui
Welcome, Viacheslav Borovitckii
Welcome, Nikola Konstantinov

Prizes and awards
Otto Hahn Medal for Alexis Block
System Security Group members in finals for Spark Award
CAST/GI Promotion Award for Kristina Hostáková

Stories of the month
Prof. Martin Vechev: New partnership with Bulgaria for artificial intelligence
Dr. Alexander Marx: Using statistical methods to predict the course of disease
Dr. Paulina Grnarova: A smart use of AI
Prof. Adrian Perrig: Virtual world, real threats
Alessandro Stolfo: "I was curious about computers early on"

Upcoming events
Internet of Things (IoT) Inspire, 9 June 2022
Systems Theory of Algorithms Symposium, 9 and 23 May 2022
Distinguished Colloquium, 9 May 2022
Women in Data Sciences (WiDS) Zurich Conference, 6 May 2022

Past events
Inaugural Lectures, 11 April, 2022
School visit Kantonsschule Uster
Informatiktage 2022

Please meet...
Nezihe Merve Gürel, doctoral student at the Institute for Computing Platforms

Open positions
Internship with TIE International
Entrepreneurship with TIE International
Call for proposals, VIScon

Tips of the month
Support in difficult phases of life

Ukraine
Assistance increased further

Latest COVID updates
All pandemic regulations are withdrawn
 

View READ.ME March 2022 here

Faculty and staff
Welcome, Helga Rietz
Welcome Tianxin Tang
Welcome, Matthias Gabathuler
Farewell, Viktor Larsson
Farewell, Philipp Herholz

Prizes and awards
ERC Consolidator Grants for Otmar Hilliges and Martin Vechev
ICSE MIP Award for Zhendong Su

Stories of the month
Mennatallah El-Assady: How human and artificial intelligence can augment one another
Dino Bollinger, Karel Kubíček, Carlos Cotrini, Prof. David Basin: Automatically filter and block cookies
Prof. Markus Gross: Bringing a smile to your face
Adalsteinn Jonsson: "When I was a child, I wanted to be a policeman or an astronaut"

Upcoming events
Inaugural Lectures, 11 April, 2022

Past events
Masterfeier, 4 March, 2022
Please meet...
Dominic Weibel, computer science student und Gender Gap Awareness Agent at CSNOW

Tips of the month
Protecting confidential data

Latest COVID updates
No changes to the coronavirus master plan
 

View READ.ME February 2022 here

Faculty and staff
Farewell, Ankit Singla
Farewell, Shuai Zhang
Fabio Streun promoted to IT system specialist
New role for Andrea Salow
Welcome, Anas Barakat
Welcome, Suvradip Chakraborty
Welcome, Patrizia Napoli
Welcome, Ziqi Wang
Welcome, Josh Veitch-Michaelis

Stories of the month
Dr. Ece Özkan Elsen: “Almost every day, I can say, ‘I learned something new today’”
Dr. Moritz Geilinger: Fascinating robots

Upcoming events
Kontaktparty, 12 March, 2022
Informatiktage, 28 March – 1 April, 2022
Treffpunkt Science City, 13, 20 March and 3 April, 2022
Nachtaktiv, 31 March, 2022

Past events
SCiON Day, 26 January, 2022

Please meet...
Tiyam Nikray, computer science student and president of the MeWell Community

Tips of the month
Newsletter subscription
Export regulations

Latest COVID updates
With its new master plan, ETH Zurich is staying on the safe side
 

View READ.ME January 2022 here

Faculty and staff
New Director of Studies Zhendong Su: “Computer science is a way of thinking”
Farewell, Petra Lüthi
Farewell, Professor Gene Tsudik
Luka Rimanic promoted to Senior Assistant
Welcome, Karen Klein
Welcome back, Manuela Fischer
Welcome, Michal Friedman
Welcome, Chengyu Zhang
Welcome, Jing Ren
Farewell, Julia Hörrmann
Farewell, Ingo Müller
Farewell, Aurélien Lucchi

Prizes and awards
Adrian Perrig and Torsten Hoefler named IEEE Fellows
ERC Starting Grants for Julia Vogt and Ce Zhang

Stories of the month
“We scientists must stand for truth and impartiality”
A new framework for scientific integrity and good scientific practice
Accelerated AI training
One step closer to lifelike avatars
SCION secure internet enters everyday service
"The CAS programme has bridged the gap between law and technology"
"I felt like I was in the wrong place."

Upcoming events
Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge
Informatiktage 2022

Please meet...
Matilda Backendal

Tips of the month
Follow and tag us on social media
The anniversary year is over

Latest COVID updates
No changes to the coronavirus master plan