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Best Paper Award for Banyan
The DISCO group’s "Banyan: Fast Rotating Leader BFT" has won the Best Paper Award at Middleware 2024. The paper demonstrates how to reduce the latency of modern blockchain protocols.
Simplified admission to teaching diploma in mathematics
Students and alumni of D-ITET can now enter the study programme for the teaching diploma for Matura schools in mathematics more easily. With a focus on information technology or mathematics, all requirements can be obtained during the regular studies.
Prof. em. Dr. Johann Kolar receives IEEE Medal in Power Engineering
Prof. em. Dr. Johann Kolar has been awarded the IEEE Medal in Power Engineering 2025 sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications, Industrial Electronics, Power Electronics, and Power & Energy Societies.
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards HS 2024
At the end of this semester, the best assistants were awarded the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award HS 2024. The winners are Lars Kröger (Analysis 1) und Alina Nekora (Physik 2 / Numerische Methoden).
Delivering medicines with microscopic flowers
These small particles are reminiscent of paper flowers or desert roses. Physicians can use them to guide medicines to a precise destination within the body. Better yet, the particles can easily be tracked using ultrasound as they scatter sound waves.
CYD Award 2024 for outstanding publication
Albert Gran Alcoz, Martin Strohmeier, Vincent Lenders, and Laurent Vanbever, Head of the Networked Systems Group, won the "CYD Award 2024 for outstanding publication" for their paper "Aggregate-Based Congestion Control for Pulse-Wave DDoS Defense".
Patch-IT: Selected among the best 100 projects as part of the Prototype for Humanity Initiative
Patch-IT, multi-sensor sensor nodes for continuous vital sign monitoring for sepsis detection in neonatal intensive care, has been selected among the best 100 projects as part of the Prototype for Humanity Initiative. The initiative aims to foster partnerships among sectors, institutions, and individuals, all working toward a better world where innovation is at the heart of comprehensive, sustainable development.
Lana Josipovic received the Best Reviewer Award
Prof. Lana Josipovic has been awarded the Best Reviewer Award at the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design. Congratulations!
Konstantinos Kanellopoulos joins the MICRO Hall of Fame
Konstantinos Kanellopoulos, doctoral student in the SAFARI Research Group, joins the ACM SIGMICRO MICRO Hall of Fame. The MICRO Hall of Fame recognizes authors who have had eight or more papers published in MICRO. This year’s inductees were announced at MICRO 2024 during the awards ceremony.
Second place at the Asilomar 2024 Student Paper Contest for Gian Marti
Gian Marti, doctoral student at the Integrated Information Processing group, has achieved the second place at the Student Paper Contest of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers – for the second year in a row! This year, he participated with the paper "Fundamental Limits for Jammer-Resilient Communication in Finite-Resolution MIMO," which he co-authored with Alexander Stutz-Tirri and Prof. Christoph Studer.