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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.

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'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.

Prof. Benjamin Grewe of the Institute of Neuroinformatics discusses the advantages and positive aspects of artificial intelligence on SRF, but also notes that AI can be exploited for criminal activities in its present state.

How does autonomous driving work? And can robots already play football autonomously? A group of high-school students from Zurich's MNG Rämibühl got to the bottom of these questions and encountered the study programme Electrical Engineering and Information Technology first-hand.

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".

Thanks to the valuable support of SBB and SBB Cargo, students at the Center for Project-Based Learning D-ITET (PBL) can test their projects on real operating trains. In this case, Master's student Frank Fu Zheng tested his project named "Future Generation of Railway Applications Cargo Wagon Tagging" that is able to localize anywhere and anytime a cargo wagon using the state-of-the-art technology, GNSS, 4G and UWB.

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.