Faculty awards
The following is an overview of the most important honours and awards faculty members at D-ITET received for their scientific work.
Best Paper awards and other prizes awarded to students and other non-faculty members are published in the awards news section.
Prof. Juerg Leuthold
Heidelberg Academy of Science (2010)
Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (2021)
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Prof. Sebastian Kozerke
Outstanding Teacher Award, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2013)
Prof. Klaas Prüssmann
Outstanding Teacher Award, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2006 & 2009)
"Golden Owl" Teaching Award of ETH Zurich
2023: Dr. Saverio Bolognani
2022: Prof. Kaveh Razavi
2021: Dr. Dengxin Dai
2020: Prof. Mathieu Luisier
2019: Prof. Laurent Vanbever
2018: Prof. Christian Franck
2017: Prof. Johann W. Kolar
2016: Prof. Laurent Vanbever
2015: Prof. Christian Franck
2014: Prof. John Lygeros
2013: Prof. Vanessa Wood
2012: Prof. John Lygeros
2011: Prof. Johann W. Kolar
2010: Dr. Hannes P. Lubich
2009: Prof. John Lygeros
2008: Dr. Alfredo Franco-Obregon
2007: Prof. Gerhard Tröster
2006: Prof. Amos Lapidoth
2005: Prof. Helmut Bölcskei
Prof. Laura Bégon-Lours
SNF Starting Grant 2023
MSCA Individual Fellowship 2019
Prof. Luca Benini
IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award (2023)
EDAA Achievement Award (2020)
ACM Fellow (2016)
Mac Van Valkenburg Award (2016)
Prof. Jürgen Biela
Isao Takahasi Award by IEEJ for Outstanding Achievements in Power Electronics, IPEC 2010, Sapporo, Japan
Laboratory for High Power Electronic Systems
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Prof. Helmut Bölcskei
Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow (2021)
Padovani Lecturer of the IEEE Information Theory Society (2016)
Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science (2014)
EURASIP Fellow (2011)
Prof. Florian Dörfler
- IFAC Manfred Thoma Medal for best IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) scientist under 40 (2020)
- European Control Award for best EUCA (European Control Association) scientist under 40 (2020)
- UC Santa Barbara Mechanical Engineering Department Best PhD Award (2015, in recognition of outstanding achievements during PhD studies)
Prof. Benjamin Grewe
AAAS Alan I. Leshner Leadership Institute Public Engagement Fellow in the area of artificial intelligence, selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2020-2021).
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Prof. Ulrike Grossner
IEEE Member-at-Large (2022 - 2024)
Prof. Taekwang Jang
- IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society New Frontier Award (2024)
- IEEE ISSCC Jan Van Vessem Award for Outstanding European Paper
(2022 & 2021) - IEEE ISSCC Outstanding Forum Speaker Award (2022)
- SNSF Starting Grant (ERC Starting Grant countermeasure) (2022)
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award (2009)
Energy-Efficient Circuits and Intelligent Systems Group
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Prof. Lana Josipović
Fritz Kutter Award for best Swiss industry-related PhD thesis in Computer Science, awarded by ETH Zurich (2021)
Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory
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Prof. Johann W. Kolar
US National Academy of Engineering NAE (2021)
European Power Electronics and Drives Association (EPE Association) Outstanding Achievement Award (2021)
Prof. Sebastian Kozerke
Fellow International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2017)
Prof. Mathieu Luisier
ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Developing Simulation that Maps Heat in Transistors (2019)
Prof. John Lygeros
IEEE Control Systems Society George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (2016)
Prof. Onur Mutlu
- IFIP Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing (2024)
- Huawei OlympusMons Award (2023)
- Google Security and Privacy Research Award (2022)
- Intel's Outstanding Researcher Award (2021)
- IEEE High Performance Computer Architecture Test of Time Award (2021)
- IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award (2020). For innovative and impactful contributions to computer memory systems
- ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award (2019). For innovative contributions in efficient and secure DRAM systems
- Strecker Early Career Professorship (2013)
- Intel Early Career Faculty Award (2012)
- George Tallman Ladd Research Award (2012)
- IEEE Computer Society Young Computer Architect Award (2011)
Prof. Lukas Novotny
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, 2010)
Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA, 2007)
Prof. Mickaël Perrin
SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship (2022)
Best thesis Award (2017)
Prof. Klaas Prüssmann
- Honorary Member, Europ. Soc. for Magn. Resonance in Medicine and Biology (2016)
- Fellow European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (2009)
- ISMRM Gold Medal, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2006)
- Fellow International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2005)
- European Magnetic Resonance Award, European Magnetic Resonance Forum (2004)
- Gunther Laukien Prize, Experimental NMR Conference (ENC) (2001)
Prof. Daniel Razansky
- Fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE, 2019)
- Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA, 2018)
- NIH grant (2015, 2017, 2018)
- German Innovation Prize (2014)
Prof. Klaas Enno Stephan
External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society (since 2014)
Prof. Luc Van Gool
IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Researcher award (2017)
Prof. Laurent Vanbever
2021 ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star Award
Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory
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Prof. János Vörös
P.-G. de Gennes prize “From Solid State to Biophysics” (2012)
Prof. Hua Wang
Top contributing author from 1954 to 2023, International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
Prof. Vanessa Wood
Outstanding Young Investigator Award (Materials Research Society, 2018)
Prof. Mehmet Fatih Yanik
NIH Director’s Pioneer Award (youngest recipient, 2011)
NIH Transformative Research Award (2010)