The latest honours and prizes

(D-INFK) Professor Markus Gross receives the Eurographics Medal 2024 for his outstanding research contributions, for his contributions to bridging industry and academia and for his leadership in the field at large. Big congratulations!

Professor Andreas Krause from the Department of Computer Science has been named ACM Fellow for his contributions to learning-​based decision making under uncertainty. Big congratulations!

The United Nations has launched a global AI Advisory Body to work on risks, opportunities and international governance of the technology. Professor Andreas Krause (D-INFK), head of the Learning & Adaptive Systems Group and Chair of the ETH AI Center, is amongst the appointed experts. Congratulations!

Professor Gustavo Alonso (D-INFK) has received the prestigious EuroSys Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding technical contributions to the field of computer systems. 

Professor Torsten Hoefler (D-INFK), Head of the Institute for High Performance Computing Systems, is the inaugural recipient of the Jack Dongarra Early Career Award. Big congratulations!

Torsten Hoefler, Marc Pollefeys and Zhendong Su, professors at the Department of Computer Science, have been named ACM Fellows. The distinction recognises the extensive research contributions in their respective fields. 

At the Symposium on Geometry Processing, professor Olga Sorkine-​Hornung received a test-​of-time award for a paper she wrote fifteen years ago. Congratulations!

Manuela Fischer, former doctoral student at the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science the Department of Computer Science, receives the 2022 ACM Principles of Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award. Congratulations! 

At the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2022, professor Adrian Perrig and his colleagues received a test-​of-time award for their first publication on the SCION network technology. Perrig heads the Network Security Group at the Department of Computer Science and is the inventor of SCION. Congratulations! 

Kristina Hostáková, postdoc in the Foundations of Cryptography Group at the Department of Computer Science was given the CAST/GI Promotion Award IT-​Sicherheit. The award honours doctoral theses that promote advancements in IT security and make IT applications more secure.

The Max Planck Society honours Alexis Block, a former doctoral student at the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems, with the prestigious Otto Hahn Medal for her fundamental and innovative research in the field of human-​robot interaction.

Professor Zhendong Su (D-INFK) is awarded the prestigious ICSE Most Influential Paper Award for the paper "On the Naturalness of Software". The paper emerged from a collaboration with former students and colleagues at UC Davis.

Professor Adrian Perrig (D-INFK) and Professor Torsten Hoefler (D-INFK) have been named IEEE Fellows. The prestigious grade of IEEE Fellow is conferred upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.

Professor Markus Gross (D-INFK), head of the Computer Graphics Laboratory at ETH Zurich and Vice President of Research for The Walt Disney Studios, has been appointed a member of acatech.

D-INFK Prof. Markus Gross is presented with the ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Steven Anson Coons Award for outstanding creative contributions to computer graphics. He is being recognised for his contributions in geometry processing, physically-based simulation, and face capturing and animation, as well as his contributions in bridging industry and academia in computer graphics. 

D-​INFK Professor Olga Sorkine-​Hornung has been named an ACM Fellow for her contributions to digital geometry processing, computer animation, computer graphics and visual computing.

Prof. Olga Sorkine-Hornung (D-INFK) and Prof. Torsten Hoefler (D-INFK) have been honoured with 2 ERC Consolidator Grants for the outstanding work in their respective research field. Whereas Torsten Hoefler focuses on high-performance computing systems, Olga Sorkine-Hornung does research in the area of computer graphics.

Professor David Basin (D-INFK) has been named an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to formal methods for information security. The prestigious grade of IEEE Fellow is conferred upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.

The International Open Benchmark Council committee has recognized Professor Torsten Hoefler (D-INFK) with the BenchCouncil Rising Star Award for his valuable work in the field of benchmark testing, metrics and optimization.

Timothy Roscoe (D-INFK) from the Systems Group at the Department of Computer Science received the SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award for the paper “The Multikernel: A New OS Architecture for Scalable Multicore Systems”, which he co-authored in 2009. This paper formed the basis for the research operating system Barrelfish.

Zuzana Trubini and Martin Hirt receive the prestigious TCC Test-of-Time Award for their 2008 paper titled "Perfectly-Secure MPC with Linear Communication Complexity". The award committee recognises the paper for introducing hyper-​invertible matrices to perfectly secure multiparty computation.

The ICML award committee has awarded Andreas Krause (D-INFK) and his collaborators with a Test of Time Award for a paper published 10 years ago. The paper was recognized in particular for the depth and breadth of the impact it has had over the past ten years.

Great honour for Markus Gross. The Vice President of Research at The Walt Disney Studios and Director of DisneyResearch|Studios in Zurich and Professor of Computer Graphics at ETH Zurich has been? invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Nine papers, which have withstood the test of time, were awarded at the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, held from 18-20 May 2020. Adrian Perrig (D-INFK) received awards for four of them - an unprecedented achievement.

Dr. Barbara Solenthaler from the Computer Graphics Laboratory (D-INFK) has received the prestigious TUM-IAS Hans-Fischer Fellowship.

Professor Markus Gross of D-INFK and Dr. Thabo Beeler, Derek Bradley and Bernd Bickel of Disney Research will be honored with a Tech Oscar by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the conception, design and engineering of the Medusa Performance Capture System.

Onur Mutlu, Professor of Computer Science (D-INFK), has been named an IEEE Fellow. He is recognized for his contributions to computer architecture research and practice.

Dr. Petar Tsankov from the Secure, Reliable, and Intelligent Systems Lab (SRI) has received the John Atanasoff President's Award in Bulgaria.