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Prof. Kaveh Razavi, head of the Computer Security Group, has received the Jochen Lietke Young Researcher Award at EuroSys. This award was created in 2014 by ACM EuroSys to reward junior European researchers who have demonstrated exceptional creativity and innovation in systems research, broadly construed. 

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!

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!

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!

The DISCO group's "Stable Dinner Party Seating Arrangements" wins the best paper award at WINE 2023. The paper studies avoiding conflict when seating your guests at the dining table.

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, 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!

Reinhard Wiesmayr, doctoral student in the Integrated Information Processing (IIP) Group of Prof. Christoph Studer, received a prestigious NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship for his research towards intelligent and adaptive 5G and 6G wireless systems that build on machine learning.

On 13 December 2023, the best assistants were awarded the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award HS 2023. The winners are Janick Matter (Lineare Algebra), Silvan Krebs (Informatik II), and Markus Lacher (Netzwerke & Schaltungen). Congratulations!

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!

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!

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, 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!

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.

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.  

Dr. Nako Nakatsuka, currently senior scientist at the Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, was awarded with the prestigious Prix Zonta on 10 November. The Prix Zonta, endowed with CHF 30,000, symbolises the commitment to the outstanding position of women in science.

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. 

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! 

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. 

Prof. Luca Benini has been honored with the Dandelion Award 2023. The award recognises professors for their outstanding commitment to promoting entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich and beyond.

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).

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".

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.

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 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!

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 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!

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."

We are delighted to share that David Menzi et al. from Power Electronic Systems Laboratory have been honored with the Best Paper Award.

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, 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!

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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, 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.

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.

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.

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".

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 student association of ETH Zurich has awarded D-ITET’s 2022 Golden Owl to the COMSEC group for good teaching. Congratulations!

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.

A low power in-ear vital parameter monitoring system by Philipp Schilk, Kanika Dheman, and Michele Magno from the Center for Project-based Learning won the best paper award at the tenth "International Workshop on e-Health Pervasive Wireless Applications and Services 2022 (e-HPWAS'22).

Rahul Bera, doctoral student in the SAFARI Research Group, won the Best Paper Award together with co-authors for their work “Hermes: Accelerating Long-Latency Load Requests via Perceptron-Based Off-Chip Load Prediction” at the MICRO’22.

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, 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.  

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.

A mixed team consisting of members of the group of Prof. Luca Benini at the Institute of Integrated Systems and the Università di Bologna has won the Open-Source Hardware/Software Award at the "SAMOS XXII" International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling and Simulation.

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".

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!

Prof. Kaveh Razavi, head of the Computer Security group, wants to increase the security of computer hardware and microprocessors with a new approach. To this end, he has subsequently received an ERC Starting Grant. Due to Switzerland's exclusion from funding by the European Research Council ERC, the project is now being funded by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI.

Salvatore Race, doctoral student at the Advanced Power Semiconductor Laboratory, received the Young Researcher Award at the PCIM (Power Conversion and Intelligent Motion) 2022 conference.

Dr. Romain Jacob, former doctoral student in the Computer Engineering Group and now a postdoctoral researcher in the Networked Systems Group, has received the BenchCouncil Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Onur Mutlu, head of the SAFARI Research Group, and colleagues Benjamin Lee, Engin Ipek, and Doug Burger received the NVMW 2022 Persistent Impact Prize for their 2009 ISCA paper on Architecting Phase Change Memory as a Scalable DRAM Alternative.

A combined team consisting of the Power Electronic Systems Laboratory and Infineon Technologies received a Best Paper Award for their paper „Next Generation GaN-​​based Architectures: From 240W USB-​​C Adapters to 11kW EV On-​Board Chargers with Ultra-​​high Power Density and Wide Output Voltage Range“ at PCIM 2022. 

Marco Stampanoni, researcher at PSI and Professor at the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, his colleague Dr. Zhentian Wang and their team have been nominated for this year’s European Inventor Award. The two scientists have been conducting research for more than ten years, in the pursuit of improved diagnostic methods for the early detection of breast cancer. The nomination for this prestigious award is in recognition of their pioneering work. The winners will be announced on 21 June 2022.

Neha Nain, doctoral student at the Power Electronic Systems Laboratory, received the Ernst-Blickle Graduate Award 2021 for her outstanding Master's thesis.

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!

Gregor Dumphart, Johannes Sager and Armin Wittneben of the Wireless Communications Group received the Best Paper Award for Track 1 “Physical Layer and Communication Theory” at this year's IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference taking place in Austin, Texas.

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, 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 the 2022 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), members of the Energy Efficient Circuits and IoT Systems (EECIS) group Alessandro Novello, Gabriele Atzeni, Giorgio Cristiano and Prof. Taekwang Jang received the 2021 Jan Van Vessem Award for the outstanding European paper, together with a collaborator, Mathieu Coustans, of ST Microelectronics.

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.

Prof. Onur Mutlu, head of the SAFARI Research Group, has been selected as one of Intel's 2021 Outstanding Researcher Award winners for his collaborative research on "Efficient Compute-in-Memory Architectures" with Intel.

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).

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.

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.

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. 

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.

Dr. Jasmin Smajic, Co-Head of the Institute of Electromagnetic Fields, receives the IEEE "Outstanding Engineer Award" of the Power and Energy Society (PES) Chapter in 2021.

Richard Schlesinger, doctoral student at the Laboratory for High Power Electronic Systems, received the EPCIA Student Award 2021.

Post-doctoral researcher Dr. Spasoje Miric, Emanuel Hubmann and Michael Haider, both doctoral students at the Power Electronic Systems Laboratory (PES), received Best Paper Awards at the International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS 2021).

The paper "Ultra-Low Power Wake-Up Receiver for Location Aware Objects Operating with UWB" by T. Polonelli, F. Villani, M. Magno from the Center for Project-based Learning (PBL) won the best paper award at the the 17th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (IEEE WiMob 2021).

Patrick Althaus and Alexander Staub have been awarded with the Prix Litra for their Master's thesis “Antriebs-​ und Betriebskonzept für Kurswagen mit eigenem Hilfsantrieb“, which was carried out at the Power Electronic Systems Laboratory.

Prof. Luca Benini and researchers from IBM Research Zurich received the 2020 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award for their paper "In-memory hyperdimensional computing".

Prof. Laurent Vanbever was selected to receive the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star Award. The award is in recognition of outstanding research contributions, early in his career, toward improving the flexibility, correctness, and security of Internet routing.

Matteo Perotti, doctoral student at the Integrated Systems Lab with Prof. Luca Benini, received the SAMOS Open-Source HW/SW Award for the paper "RVfplib: A Fast and Compact Open-Source Floating-Point Emulation Library for Tiny RISC-V Processors".

The Editorial Board of the Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE) has awarded Dr. Spasoje Miric’s paper “Enhanced Complex Space Vector Modeling and Control System Design of Multi-​phase Magnetically Levitated Rotary-​Linear Machines” with the first prize paper award for 2020. Dr. Thomas Guillod’s paper “Dielectric Losses in Dry-​Type Insulation of Medium-​Voltage Power Electronic Converters” received the second prize paper award for 2020.

Prof. Johann W. Kolar received the 2021 European Power Electronics and Drives Association (EPE Association) Outstanding Achievement Award for his contributions in the fields of power electronics converters and control.

At this year's Pwnie awards at the annual BlackHat conference, the COMSEC group of Prof. Kaveh Razavi received double attention: The group, together with researchers from the United States and the Netherlands, has won one of the prestigious awards for their paper "Speculative Probing: Hacking Blind in the Spectre Era". Additionally, Finn de Ridder, doctoral student at the group, was nominated for his Master's thesis on compromising web browsers on modern systems with Rowhammer.

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).

Nako Nakatsuka, a Principal Investigator at the Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics (LBB), was named to MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 list. Each year since 1999, exceptionally talented young innovators whose work has the greatest potential to transform the world have been selected to the prestigious list.  

Marcel Schuck has been awarded the BRIDGE Proof of Concept Fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) for the project “Contactless Micromanipulator for Biotechnology Applications”, which will be carried out in close collaboration with the Power Electronic Systems Laboratory.

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.

Gwendolin Rohner has received the Ernst Blickle Studienpreis 2020 for her outstanding Master's thesis "Highly-​Dynamic Magnetically-​Levitated Linear-​Rotary Double Stator Actuator System".

Prof. Lothar Thiele received the 2021 Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award by the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems.

Onur Mutlu and co-authors received the HPCA Test of Time Award for their 2003 HPCA paper "Runahead Execution: An Alternative to Very Large Instruction Windows for Out-of-Order Processors”. The IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) Test of Time Award recognizes the most influential papers published in prior sessions of HPCA (held 18-22 years ago), and that have had a significant impact in the field.

Nils Wistoff from the Integrated Systems Laboratory has received the Best paper award of the Test and Dependability Track at the 2021 DATE (Design, Automation, and Test in Europe) Conference. The paper is a collaborative work between ETH Zurich, Università di Bologna, UNSW Australia and Data61, CSIRO.

Prof. Johann Kolar, head of the Power Electronic Systems Laboratory (PES), has been elected to the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) "for contributions to power-electronic technologies, multiobjective design optimization, education, and technology transfer to industry." Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.

Members of the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK) have received the 2nd Zukunftspreis (Future Prize), awarded by the Ewald Marquardt foundation for their research work "Feedback control goes wireless". This is a joint work between Prof. Lothar Thiele, Dr. Romain Jacob, and researchers from Max Planck Institute Tübingen and TU Dresden.

PD Dr. Shih-Chii Liu from the Institute of Neuroinformatics (ETH Zurich and University of Zurich) has been awarded the 2020 Misha Mahowald Prize for Neuromorphic Engineering. She and her team, consisting of doctoral students from both UZH and ETH Zurich, received the prize for their pioneering “Dynamic Audio Sensor, DAS” that emulates processing principles found in the biological hearing sensors.

Last week at the annual BlackHat Europe conference, the rowhammer attack strategy TRRespass won the Pwnie award in the most innovative research category. TRRespass was a result of a fruitful collaboration between Prof. Kaveh Razavi, Prof. Onur Mutlu and researchers in the Netherlands. Pwnies are the most prestigious industrial awards in the security community.

Prof. Onur Mutlu, Fellow of ACM and IEEE, has been selected to receive the IEEE Computer Society 2020 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, "for innovative and impactful contributions to computer memory systems."

Minesh Patel, a doctoral student in Onur Mutlu’s SAFARI group, received a Best Paper Award at the 53rd International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO).

Prof. Luca Benini has received the A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation. The award honors a person or persons for an outstanding technical contribution within the scope of electronic design automation, as evidenced by a paper published at least ten years before the presentation of the award.