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RowPress chosen as a top paper for IEEE Micro Top Picks
Congratulations to Haocong Luo, doctoral student in the SAFARI Research Group, led by Prof. Onur Mutlu, and co-authors for their ISCA 2023 paper "RowPress: Amplifying Read Disturbance in Modern DRAM Chips", chosen as an IEEE Micro 2024 Top Pick!
Hans Eggenberger Prize 2023 awarded to Dr. Stefan Köpfli
Dr. Stefan Köpfli, postdoc at the Institute for Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), headed by of Prof. Jürg Leuthold, was awarded the Hans Eggenberger Prize 2023 for his dissertation "Graphene for Highest Speed Photodetectors". Congratulations!
"I have always been interested in things that have an impact on society"
Prof. Luca Benini holds the chair of digital circuits and systems at the Integrated Systems Laboratory (IIS). In the interview he talks about the trends towards open-source hardware architecture, new technologies, such as 3D integration, and fruitful collaborations within ETH.
Silver medal for PBL’s autonomous racing team ForzaETH at CES in Las Vegas
Members and undergraduate students of the Center for Project-Based Learning D-ITET (PBL) secured a prestigious second place in the Indy autonomous race simulation at the tech event CES in Las Vegas. ETH’s team was only surpassed by the experienced PoliMove team from Politecnico di Milano. An exceptional and very promising achievement for the future. Congratulations!
Best Paper Award for Institute of Neuroinformatics
Junren Chen, doctoral student at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI), won the Best Paper Award at the 2023 30th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS) in collaboration with colleagues at the School of Integrated Circuits, Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Prof. Taekwang Jang wins 2024 IEEE SSCS New Frontier Award
Prof. Taekwang Jang, head of the Energy-Efficient Circuits and Intelligent Systems Group, has been honored with the prestigious 2024 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society New Frontier Award. This recognition is bestowed upon an early career researcher for innovative and visionary technical work in the field of solid-state circuits. Congratulations!
PBL team won Best Paper Award at ACM ENSYSS 2023 for Innovative IoT Research
Silvano Cortesi, Marco Giordano, and Michele Magno from the D-ITET Center for Project-Based Learning (PBL) received the Best Paper Award at the 11th ACM International Workshop on Energy Harvesting & Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems (ENSYSS) in conjunction with ACM Sensys 2023. Their outstanding paper was entitled "Energy-Aware Adaptive Sampling for Self-Sustainability in Resource-Constrained IoT Devices". Congratulations!
Best Pitch Award for Kanika Dheman from the Center for Project-Based Learning (PBL)
Kanika Dheman, postdoctoral researcher at PBL, claimed the coveted Best Pitch award at IEEE Sensors 2023 in Vienna. Her visionary startup idea "PI Health: Pervasive Intelligence for Organ Failure Detection with Embedded AI in Wearables," stood out among 10 finalists during the conference. Congratulations!
Success for the SAFARI Research Group at the ACM Student Research Competition
The SAFARI Research Group, lead by Prof. Onur Mutlu, was present at PACT 2023 with several presentations at the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). The ACM SRC is a forum for graduate and undergraduate students to share their research results, exchange ideas, and improve their communication skills while competing for prizes. The top 3 undergraduate and graduate students received awards, and the first-place winner in each category will go on to participate in the SRC Grand Finals.
Mila Lewerenz receives a Best Oral Presentation Award at Memrisys 2023
Mila Lewerenz, a PhD candidate at the Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), has been honored with a Best Oral Presentation Award at Memrisys 2023 for her presentation on "Pulsed Atomic-Scale Three-Terminal Memristor". Congratulations!
Electrical engineering pioneer named honorary councillor of ETH Zurich
At this year's ETH Day Wera Hotz Kowner, the first woman to complete a degree in electrical engineering at ETH Zurich in 1963, was named an honorary councillor in recognition of her outstanding services in the promotion of young talent.
"Golden Owl" 2023 awarded to Saverio Bolognani
Dr. Saverio Bolognani, lecturer at the Automatic Control Laboratory (IfA), has received the teaching award "Golden Owl" for D-ITET at this year's "ETH Day". awarded each year . The Golden Owl, created by student organisation VSETH, honours lecturers who have provided exceptional teaching and motivates them to continue in this way.
Eye tracking embedded in your glasses
The company iniVation combines its novel camera technology with energy-efficient processors and AI algorithms, developed by the Center for Project-Based Learning D-ITET (PBL) to achieve ultra-fast low-power eye tracking for augmented and virtual reality.
PBL team wins Best Paper Award at the World Forum of Internet of Things
At the World Forum of Internet of Things, a groundbreaking paper, titled "Advancing Freight Train Integrity Monitoring for Next-Generation Railway Signaling Using UWB," authored by Denis Mikhaylov, Fu Zheng, Philipp Mayer, Christian Vogt, Tommaso Polonelli, and Michele Magno, from the Center for Project-Based Learning D-ITET (PBL) has clinched the prestigious Best Paper Award.
MICRO Distinguished Artifact Award for Victima
The SAFARI Research Group, lead by Prof. Onur Mutlu, received a Distinguished Artifact Award at MICRO 2023 for their work "Victima: Drastically Increasing Address Translation Reach by Leveraging Underutilized Cache Resources". Congratulations to the authors Konstantinos Kanellopoulos, Hong Chul Nam, F. Nisa Bostanci, Rahul Bera, Mohammad Sadrosadati, Rakesh Kumar, Davide Basilio Bartolini and Onur Mutlu on this prestigious award!
COMSEC wins Best Paper Award at MICRO’23
Researchers around Prof. Kaveh Razavi, head of the Computer Security Group (COMSEC), received the Best Paper Award at the flagship MICRO conference this week in Toronto. Their paper "Phantom" shows the security implications of pre-decode speculation that is fundamental in achieving high performance.
New award for outstanding Bachelor’s students
At yesterday’s Departemental Conference, the newly established "Best BSc Thesis Award" was granted for the first time to three outstanding Bachelor’s students at D-ITET. It was handed over to the laureates Jan Brändle, Jente Clarysse, and Zhenrong Lang by the prize donors Christophe Beaud, CEO and his wife Danette Beaud, COO of Peoplefone. The donation also supports flagship projects within the Center for Project-Based Learning D-ITET (PBL).
"We want AI as a helpful assistant, not as an independent being"
Benjamin Grewe is Professor of Neuroinformatics and Neural Systems at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI) of ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich and a researcher at the ETH AI Center. In the interview, he talks about his fascination for biologically inspired algorithms and the advantages of the newly developed language model SwissGPT over ChatGPT.
Information days 2023
On this year's Information Days on 6 and 7 September, D-ITET was present with exciting exhibits and demos as well as interesting presentations giving high-school students a valuable insight into the department's study programmes.
ETH medal for Daniël Trujillo
Daniël Trujillo, a recently graduated master student from the COMSEC group of Prof. Kaveh Razavi, has won an ETH medal for his thesis entitled "Racing Against the Decoder: Leaking Arbitrary Memory with Phantom Speculation and Training in Transient Execution".
Integrated Systems Lab team: Winner of the AMD Open Hardware Competition
Doctoral students Cyril König, Nils Wistoff and Gianna Paulin of the Integrated Systems Laboratory (Prof. Luca Benini) are winners in the PhD category for the AMD Open Hardware Competition.
Jente Clarysse among the latest recipients of the INSPIRE Potentials – MARVEL Master's Fellowship
We are pleased to announce that D-ITET Master's student Jente Clarysse is among the latest recipients of the INSPIRE Potentials – MARVEL Master's Fellowship. Following an early application Jente has joined the group of Prof. Mathieu Luisier end of April 2023 for a 6-month Master's research project. Congratulations!
The Sensors Research Group INI won the Best Poster Award 2023
The Sensors Research Group at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI), under the leadership of Professor Shih-Chii Liu, has been honored with the prestigious Best Poster Award at the renowned IEEE AICAS 2023 event. Congratulations!
"Best Live Demo" Award at ISCAS 2023
Jonas Roth, doctoral student at the Integrated Information Processing (IIP) Group, led by Prof. Christoph Studer, won the "Best Live Demo" award together with Master's student Domenic Keller at this year's IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). The students demonstrated their aliasing-free hybrid digital-analog music synthesizer. Congratulations!
A team of UNIBO and D-ITET got a best paper award at IEEE ISVLSI 2023
A team of University of Bologna and ETH Zurich's Integrated Systems Laboratory (IIS) got a best paper award at IEEE ISVLSI 2023 for the paper "A 3 TOPS/W RISC-V Parallel Cluster for Inference of Fine-Grain Mixed-Precision Quantized Neural Networks". Congratulations!
SAFARI Research Group received the Distinguished Artifact Award at ISCA 2023
We are thrilled to announce that SAFARI Research Group, lead by Prof. Onur Mutlu, received the Distinguished Artifact Award at ISCA 2023 for their project titled "RowPress: Enhancing Read Disturbance in Modern DRAM Chips."
David Menzi received a Best Paper Award at CPE-Powereng 2023
We are delighted to share that David Menzi et al. from Power Electronic Systems Laboratory have been honored with the Best Paper Award.
Center for Project-Based Learning D-ITET Receives the Demo Award at IEEE IWAS
The team at the Center for Project-Based Learning D-ITET (PBL) has achieved remarkable success in the field of autonomous racing, with recent accolades at the prestigious IEEE IWASI workshop after the outstanding performance at the ICRA 2023 F1tenth race. Congratulations!
Florian Schenk reveiced the Best Oral Presentation Award
Florian Schenk, a doctoral student in the research group Chemistry and Materials Design headed by Prof. Maksym Yarema, received the Best Oral Presentation Award for his paper titled "Solution-processed phase-change memory from molecular telluride inks." Congratulations!
"Electrical energy is the basis of everything in electrical engineering"
Prof. Gabriela Hug is a professor at the Power Systems Laboratory in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering and head of the Energy Science Center (ESC). In our interview, the D-ITET graduate talks about her professional career and the importance of electrical engineering for future energy security.
PBL: champions of the F1tenth autonomous racing competition at ICRA2023
We are more than happy to announce that the students and staff from the Center for Project-Based Learning D-ITET (PBL) won the F1tenth autonomous racing competition that was held at ICRA2023 in London. We congratulate them for their dedication, expertise, and spirit.
Prof. Onur Mutlu and Team Receive Huawei OlympusMons Award
Prof. Onur Mutlu and his team have been awarded the Huawei OlympusMons Award for their contribution to the field of "Data-Centric & Data-Driven Storage System Design for High Performance, Efficiency and Reliability". This award promotes collaboration among academia, industry, and research and facilitates advancements in the field of global data storage.
Prof. Christian Franck appointed new Full Member of SATW
The Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) has elected Prof. Christian Franck, head of the High Voltage Lab at D-ITET, as Full Member. The appointment is made in recognition of his outstanding achievements in teaching and research, particularly regarding the use of new climate-friendly insulating gases in electrical energy technology.
"I want to bridge the gap between software and hardware"
Lana Josipović is an assistant professor and head of the Digital Systems and Design Automation Group (DYNAMO) at the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK) of D-ITET. In our interview, she talks about her research and her brand-new course “Synthesis of Digital Circuits”, and she explains how motivated students inspire her.
BioDynaMo simulation engine wins Best Artifact Award at PPoPP 2023
Lukas Breitwieser, his co-authors Ahmad Hesam, Fons Rademakers, Juan Gómez Luna, and Onur Mutlu have received the Best Artifact Award at the Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP) 2023 for their high-performance agent-based simulation engine, BioDynaMo.
Prof. Hua Wang named IEEE ISSCC top contributing author
Hua Wang, Professor of Electronics at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, was named top contributing author from 1954 to 2023 at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). ISSCC is the top conference of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and the most prestigious conference for integrated circuits (IC) research.
Prof. Taekwang Jang and his group received four awards
The 2023 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) recognized several individuals and groups for their outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of solid-state circuits and systems. One of them was Prof. Taekwang Jang and his group.
David Menzi receives Best Paper Award at IEEE COMPEL 2022
David Menzi's paper has been awarded the Best Paper Award at the Twenty Third IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics, COMPEL 2022. The workshop took place on June 20-23, 2022, in Tel Aviv, Israel, and the awarding committee was unanimous in their decision to recognize Menzi's excellent contribution.
SAFARI Research Group: HiPEAC Best Paper Award for MetaSys
Congratulations to SAFARI Research Group members Nandita Vijaykumar, Ataberk Olgun, Konstantinos Kanellopoulos, F. Nisa Bostanci, Hasan Hassan, Mehrshad Lotfi, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Onur Mutlu, for their Best Paper Award at the HiPEAC 2023 conference for their ACM TACO paper "MetaSys: A Practical Open-source Metadata Management System to Implement and Evaluate Cross-layer Optimizations".
Luca Benini receives IEEE Computer Society 2023 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award
The Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, which is sponsored by the IEEE, honors "the excellent and creative contributions to the disciplines of computer and information science and engineering or computer technology." In 2023, this honour goes to Luca Benini for his contributions to energy-efficient circuits, architectures, and associated design processes and equipment.
Prof. Mehmet Fatih Yanik and his team receive the BRIDGE Discovery Award
Prof. Mehmet Fatih Yanik, head of the Neurotechnology Group of UZH and ETH Zurich, and his team recently developed a novel technology for non-invasive focal drug delivery to the brain circuits using focused ultrasound. The project receives the BRIDGE Discovery Award, funded by SNSF and Innosuisse.
"If you have competition in your field, you're doing research on an important topic"
Jürg Leuthold is Professor of Photonics and Communication at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering. In this interview, he talks about his research areas and their challenges, as well as the changes he would like to implement as new Head of Department.
Ashwin Venkatraman is receiving the 2021 TPWRS Best Paper Award
It is a pleasure to announce that Ashwin Venkatraman, Uros Markovic, Dmitry Shchetinin, Evangelos Vrettos, Petros Aristidou, and Gabriela Hug from the Power Systems Laboratory are receiving the 2021 TPWRS Best Paper Award.
David Menzi is a winner of the EPCIA Student Award 2022
It is a pleasure to announce that David Menzi, Postdoc at the Power Electronic Systems Laboratory (PES) of ETH Zürich, is the winner of the EPCIA Student Award 2022.
Prof. Taekwang Jang has received an SNSF Starting Grant
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has awarded nine SNSF Starting Grants to researchers who plan to carry out their projects at ETH Zurich starting next year. Prof. Taekwang Jang, Assistant Professor at the Institute for Integrated Systems, receives the grant for his project "Millimeter-scale Secure and Intelligent Computer Class for Internet of Everything".
Minesh Patel from the SAFARI research group receives an ETH Doctoral Medal
We’d like to congratulate Minesh Patel on receiving an ETH Doctoral Medal for his outstanding Doctoral thesis. Minesh’s dissertation, "Enabling Effective Error Mitigation in Modern Memory Chips that Use On-Die Error-Correcting Codes" was nominated by D-ITET and will be presented at the Doctoral Awards Ceremony in January 2023.
The Golden Owl for COMSEC
The student association of ETH Zurich has awarded D-ITET’s 2022 Golden Owl to the COMSEC group for good teaching. Congratulations!
2022 Google Security and Privacy Research Award
Prof. Onur Mutlu was recently honored by Google with a 2022 Google Security and Privacy Research Award for his work on hardware security and side-channels. This award recognizes the work done by Mutlu and his team, the SAFARI Research Group, for making significant, recent contributions to protecting users across the Internet, especially for their work on the discovery of the DRAM RowHammer vulnerability.
"Diversity helps to keep people excited and open-minded"
Prof. Giacomo Indiveri is Associate Professor in the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI) at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich. In our interview he talks about his research area Neuromorphic Cognitive Systems which enables electronic circuits to reproduce the dynamics and properties of biological circuits. He also explains how diversity benefits his group.
Best Paper Award for Marco Pocaterra and Dr. Mauro Ciappa
Marco Pocaterra and Dr. Mauro Ciappa from the Integrated Systems Laboratory (IIS) received the Best Paper Award at the 33rd European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices and Physics (ESREF 2022) organized by the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft in Berlin from September 26 to 29, 2022.
Tommaso Polonelli and Michele Magno win Best Poster Award
Tommaso Polonelli, Andrea Bentivogli, Guido Comai, and Michele Magno from the Center for Project-Based Learning D-ITET (PBL) won the Best Poster Award for the paper "Self-sustainable IoT Wireless Sensor Node for Predictive Maintenance on Electric Motors" at the IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium 2022 in Sweden.
Congratulations to our new D-ITET ETH Zürich Pioneer Fellows!
Three D-ITET graduates have been awarded an ETH Zürich Pioneer Fellowships for their groundbreaking technology innovations for the industry. PeakFlow, developed by Yvan Bosshard and Tiago Salzmann, brings "the Smart to Smart Infrastructure" and is capable of completely self-sustaining operation. Tethys Robotics, co-founded by Pragash Sivananthaguru, enables search, recovery and inspection missions in all waters.
Patrick Jattke receives Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Europe award
Patrick Jattke, a doctoral student in the Computer Security Group, led by Prof. Kaveh Razavi, has been awarded the prestigious Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Europe award. Patrick has been selected for his proposal "Rowhammer Meets AI: Leveraging Deep Learning for Building a General Rowhammer Testing Methodology".
Outstanding TA Awards presented for the second time
Last week, the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards for this semester were granted to the best teaching assistants at Bachelor's and Master's level at D-ITET. The winners are Manuel Schneider (Analysis II), Tobias Bühler (Communication Networks), and Nicolas Lanzetti (Game Theory and Control). Congratulations!
“My heart is set on cardiac imaging”
Sebastian Kozerke, professor at the Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBT), explains in our interview how magnetic resonance imaging and personalised "digital twins" can help in diagnostics and disease prediction in the future. He also talks about what he particularly appreciates about his position as Director of Studies at D-ITET and reveals himself to be a lover of Toblerone mousse at Dozentenfoyer.
KITE Award finalist: IfA's quadrocopter drone video now online
During the lockdown Jeremy Coulson, Paul Beuchat and Prof. John Lygeros from the Automatic Control Laboratory (IfA) developed the course "Quad-Rotors: Control and Estimation" for Bachelor’s students at D-ITET. Their project was nominated as one of three KITE Award finalists as a particularly innovative teaching initiative. Congratulations!
Rüdiger Birkner wins EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award
Rüdiger Birkner, former doctoral student at the Networked Systems Group (NSG), led by Prof. Laurent Vanbever, just won the EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award for his PhD thesis "Improving Network Understanding".
Prune Truong is now a 2022 Apple Scholar in AI/ML
Prune Truong, doctoral student at D-ITET's Computer Vision Lab (CVL), receives an Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship. The PhD fellowships in Machine Learning and AI were created to celebrate the contributions of students pursuing cutting-edge fundamental and applied machine learning research worldwide.
"In nanoelectronics we work in a similar way to architects"
Prof. Mathieu Luisier heads the "Computational Nanoelectronics" group at the Institute of Integrated Systems. In our interview, the "Golden Owl" winner talks about the challenges of nanotechnology and about how he, as a former D-ITET graduate, perceives the department and its development. In the spring semester, he gives the lecture "Applications of Thermal Modelling: From Hot Atoms to Heated Tissues", in which there are still free places. It's worth dropping by!
Prof. Ulrike Grossner elected as IEEE Member-at-Large
Prof. Ulrike Grossner, head of the Advanced Power Semiconductor Laboratory, has been elected as a Member-at-Large (MAL) to the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Advisory Committee for a three-year term beginning 1 January 2022.
Bachelor's student wins research competition with self-built Tesla coil
Maz Wegmüller, Bachelor's student at D-ITET, was the only foreign participant in the research competition in Taiwan to win the Young Scientist Award. He was supported in the development of his musical tesla transformer by Raphael Färber, researcher at the High Voltage Laboratory (HVL).
Master's student Joudi Hajar receives GE Impact Award
Joudi Hajar, Master’s student in Robotics, Systems and Control, receives the „GE Impact Award“. Supervised by Prof. Florian Dörfler, she supported the development of a novel tool that designs a Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) at the lowest cost possible.
Prof. Daniel Razansky named IEEE Fellow
Daniel Razansky, Professor of Biomedical Imaging at the Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBT) has been named IEEE Fellow for contributions to multispectral optoacoustic tomography. The IEEE Fellow is one of the most prestigious honors of the IEEE, and is bestowed upon a very limited number of Senior Members who have contributed importantly to the advancement of engineering, science and technology bringing significant value to our society.
Outstanding TA Award granted for the first time to best teaching assistants
In a short ceremony on 15 December 2021, the new Outstanding TA Award was granted for the first time to the best teaching assistants at Bachelor's and Master's level at D-ITET.
"I am a bit jealous of my students"
Prof. Kaveh Razavi is leader of the Computer Security Group (COMSEC). In our interview he talks about his passion for hacking, why we should care more about computer security, and how he is preparing the Computer Engineering lecture he will take over next semester from Prof. Lothar Thiele. Currently the group is looking for a new doctoral student in Hardware Security. Applications are very welcome!
Alvaro Gomariz wins the 2021 EXCITE PhD Excellence Award
Dr. Alvaro Gomariz of the Computer-assisted Applications in Medicine group (CAiM) at D-ITET receives this year's best PhD award from EXCITE Zurich.
PBL SNF Bridge Aerosense Project paper wins Best Paper Award
The paper "WindNode: A Long-Lasting And Long-Range Bluetooth Wireless Sensor Node for Pressure and Acoustic Monitoring on Wind Turbines", authored by Raphael Fischer, Hanna Mueller, Tommaso Polonelli, Luca Benini, and Michele Magno has won the ICPS 2021 Best Presentation in Session Award at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS).
Two best paper awards for PhD student supervised by Prof. Luca Benini (IIS)
Petar Jokic, PhD student at CSEM and supervised by Prof. Luca Benini, won the best demo award at the VLSI Symposium 2021, as well as the best student paper award at NEWCAS 2021.
"My research is primarily about mathematical understanding"
Hans-Andrea Loeliger is a professor at the Signal and Information Processing Laboratory. In this interview he talks about basic research in signal processing.
"I would like to improve the quality of patient care"
In our interview, Ender Konukoglu, professor at the Computer Vision Lab (CVL), talks about his research at the intersection of medicine and engineering and about the challenges that arise when linking these two forward-looking fields.
"We measure where no one has measured before"
Lukas Novotny, Professor for Photonics, explains in the interview how he wants to bring quantum mechanics into our macroscopic world with his research.
"Nothing is more practical than a good theory"
Florian Dörfler is professor at the Automatic Control Laboratory (IfA). In our interview, he explains why systems control has been the "backbone" of all automation for decades. For him, today is the most exciting time in the history of his field of research.
“I was born an engineer”
Daniel Razansky is Professor of Biomedical Imaging at the Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBT) of ETH and the University of Zurich. In this interview, he explains how his research helps to recognize diseases in an early stage and why combining engineering and medicine was a very natural choice for him.
“I see a lot of synergy between electrical engineering and chemistry”
Maksym Yarema, leader of the Chemistry and Materials Design (CMD) group, a newly established laboratory at the Institute for Electronics, received an ERC Starting Grant in 2019. In our interview Prof. Yarema speaks about the fascination of nanomaterials and his learnings during the Corona lockdown.
"Electrical energy plays a key role in the sustainable energy supply"
In the interview, Prof. Christian Franck talks about the major societal tasks he would like to help solving with his work, and his experiences with online courses in the Corona crisis.
"We want to take the Internet 'to the next level'"
Professor Laurent Vanbever is head of the Networked Systems Group (NSG), and two-time winner of the students’ award "Golden Owl". In our interview he explains how he gazed in awe at the large computer infrastructures in his father’s office as a child, and how he, nowadays, makes students realize that it takes a truly collective effort to make the Internet work.
"We are focused on making the 'All Electric Society' a reality"
In our interview, Prof. Johann Kolar, Power Electronic Systems Laboratory (PES), talks about the future-oriented research projects of his group, the breathtaking speed at which new concepts are developed today and his regret that the day has only 24 hours.
"Our goal is to develop safe autonomous cars"
In our interview, Prof. Luc Van Gool, head of the Computer Vision Lab (CVL), explains how it has become much easier for a machine to recognize the content of an image in the last decade and how autonomous driving might be pushed forward over the next years.
"Deep neural networks work like a Swiss army knife"
Prof. Helmut Bölcskei, Professor of Mathematical Information Science, explains in our interview how mathematics could advance deep learning over the next few years, why artificial intelligence does not scare him and what he particularly appreciates about ETH Zurich.
"The human being is always at the centre of our research"
The second interview in our portrait series was conducted with Klaas Enno Stephan, Deputy Head of Department at D-ITET and Professor at the Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBT) of ETH and the University of Zurich. He talks about his cooperative working environment, explains how mathematical models might help to find the right therapies for psychiatric diseases and how his research contributes to building bridges between medicine and engineering.
"I have always been fascinated by speed"
Prof. Colombo Bolognesi, leader of the Millimeter-Wave Electronics Laboratory (MWE) group, explains in our new portrait series his research focus, what made him interested in ultrahigh-speed compound semiconductor transistors and how his "super-low-noise" transistors play a crucial role in space exploration by the European Space Agency (ESA).
Malte Tschentscher has been awarded with the ETG-Literaturpreis
Congratulations to Malte Tschentscher, former PhD Student at the High Voltage Lab!
Best Poster Award for Computer Engineering Group team
Felix Sutton, Jan Beutel and Prof. Lothar Thiele of the Computer Engineering Group received the best poster award at the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2017).
Prof. Luc Van Gool receives Distinguished Researcher award
At its International Conference on Computer Vision 2017 in Venice, the IEEE Computer Society granted prof. Luc Van Gool the Distinguished Researcher award.
Sensors PhD student Hongjie Liu wins Best Paper award at ICANN 2017
Sensors Group PhD student Hongjie Liu and former PhD student (now Dr.) Diederik Moeys, together with collaborators from the University of Seville, won the Best Paper award at the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2017.
Matias Kagias wins William H. F. Talbot Award
Matias Kagias, PhD student in Prof. Marco Stampanoni's group, received the William H. F. Award 2017 at the last XNPIG2017 conference in Zurich.
Sebastian Heeg receives Best Poster Award
Sebastian Heeg, postdoc in the group of Prof. Lukas Novotny, has received the Best Poster Award at the International Conference on Enhanced Spectroscopies in Munich, Germany.
IIS team wins best paper award
Dr. Michele Magno, Antonio Pullini and Prof. Luca Benini from the Integrated Systems Laboratory won the best paper award at the 1st IEEE conference New Generation of Circuits and Systems (NGCAS) 2017.
IIS team wins Best Paper Award
Lukas Cavigelli, Philippe Degen and Luca Benini have won the Best Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC) for their paper "CBinfer: Change-Based Inference for Convolutional Neural Networks on Video Data" presented on 5 September 2017 in Stanford, CA, USA.
Maksym Yarema wins ACS Nano Poster Prize
Maksym Yarema, a senior researcher in the group of Prof. Vanessa Wood, won the ACS Nano Poster Prize at the Nanoscience with Nanocrystals conference held in July 2017 in Braga, Portugal.
ReflectUS receives Venture Best Business Idea Award
The technology of Dr. Sergio Sanabria and Prof. Orcun Göksel of the Computer Vision Lab received this year's Venture Best Business Idea Award. In their project named ReflectUS (an upcoming spinoff), novel ultrasonic measurement is used to diagnose various tissue changes, in particular to detect tumours.
Adrian Hauswirth and Uros Markovic win awards at IEEE PES Powertech 2017
The doctoral student Adrian Hauswirth (advised by Florian Dörfler and Gabriela Hug) has received the “Basil Papadias” Award for the Best Paper and Uros Markovic (advised by Gabriela Hug) has received a “High Quality Paper Award” (Top 4 Papers).
ETH Career Seed Grant awarded to Dr. Sebastian Heeg
Dr. Sebastian Heeg, postdoctoral researcher at the Photonics Lab headed by Prof. Lukas Novotny, has been awarded an ETH Career Seed Grant for PostDoctoral Researchers by the ETH Zurich Research Commission. The grant is designed to support promising young researchers in an early career stage in establishing their own record of independent research.
Best Paper Award am IWASI 2017
Michele Magno, Michael Pritz, Philipp Mayer und Luca Benini gewannen den Best Paper Award am 7. IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces. Das Paper wurde am 15. Juni in Vieste, Italien, präsentiert.
Sebastian Kozerke receives ISMRM Fellowship Award 2017
Prof. Sebastian Kozerke was named 2017 Fellow of ISMRM, the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
START Summit 2017: LBB at the forefront
Two startups of the Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics scored high at this year's START Summit 2017, a conference for students, founders and investors. Both IDUN HealthTech and nanoleq made it to the finals with nanoleq winning the competition.
Greta Thompson-Steckel wins Best Talk prize
Greta Thompson-Steckel, PhD candidate at the Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, won the Best Talk prize given out by the scientific journal Nature Materials.
Marco Zimmerling receives Outstanding Dissertations Award
Marco Zimmerling received the 2016 Outstanding Dissertations Award, which is given out by the European Design and Automation Association.
TIK team wins first place at EWSN 2017 Dependability Competition
Roman Lim, Reto Da Forno, Felix Sutton and Prof. Lothar Thiele (all from the Computer Engineering Group of the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory) achieve the first place at the EWSN 2017 Dependability Competition.
Marco Eppenberger wins Hans Eggenberger Award
Marco Eppenberger, MScEEIT ETH, won the 2016 Hans Eggenberger Award for his Master thesis "FPGA-based Coherent Receivers for Optical Communication Systems Beyond 100G".