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The pharma giant Roche awarded the 1st prize of the FXH Scientific Excellence Award to Jannis Born. Jannis is Master's student at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI) of UZH and ETH Zurich and received the award for his thesis "Towards in-silico Design of Anticancer Compounds for Precision Medicine", co-supervised by Prof. Fatih Yanik. The innovation prize is awarded for projects with the potential to shape the future of healthcare.

Julian Böhler, doctoral student at the Power Electronics Systems Lab, received the Best Paper Award at the SGRE 2019 (2nd International Conference on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy).

Coralie Busse-​Grawitz, Master's student in the Networked Systems Group (NSG), led by Prof. Laurent Vanbever, is one of this year's recipients of the ABB Research Award for her Master's Thesis entitled "In-Network Inference with Random Forests". She received the award at this year's "ETH Tag" on 16 November. Coralie will start her PhD in the NSG group in February 2020.

For the second time after 2016, Prof. Laurent Vanbever has received the teaching award Golden Owl for D-​ITET, awarded each year by student organisation VSETH.  

On 7 November 2019, this year’s D+ITET Diversity & Inclusion keynote and panel discussion took place at the Dozentenfoyer. Dr. Jamie Lee Gloor, Diversity researcher at the University of Zurich, first presented the state of the art on how inclusion benefits business bottom lines. The four panelists then discussed concrete steps each of us can do to benefit from diverse workplaces.  

Pascal Niklaus, doctoral student at the Power Electronics Systems Lab, received the Best Paper Award at ICRERA (International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications) 2019 for his publication „Ultra-High Bandwidth GaN-Based Class-D Power Amplifier for Testing of Three-Phase Mains Interfaces for Renewable Energy Systems“.

After only seven weeks of attending the lecture "Netzwerke und Schaltungen I", Prof. Christian Franck had the freshmen present electrostatic generators they built themselves. Thus the students can put theoretical knowledge into practice from the very beginning. Our picture gallery shows how motivated they were and how much fun they had. First semester student Jonas Nann relates how he experienced the project.

Dr. Richard Rau of the Computer-assisted Applications in Medicine group received the Best Presentation Award at MICCAI (Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention) 2019 conference in Shenzhen, China, one of the largest technical conferences on medical image analysis.