Industry Fellowships & International Recognition 2025-2026
PhD Awards 2025 – 2026
ELLIS ¦ ACM Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award ¦ ISSS Excellence Award ¦ Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation ¦ Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize ¦ EPFL Thesis Distinction
EDIC & IC Awards – full list
PhD Awards & Industry Fellowships ¦ Faculty Awards & Research Grants ¦ Best Paper
Google PhD Fellowship
2025 – Francesco D’Angelo
Google Fellowship 2025 in Machine Learning and ML Foundation has been awarded to Francesco!
ELLIS PhD Award
2025 – Maksym Andriushchenko
Maksym was recognized for an outstanding dissertation in the field of modern AI
ACM Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation (OPDA)
2025 – Alessandro Tempia Calvino
for the dissertation “Technology Mapping and Optimization Algorithms for Logic Synthesis of Advanced Technologies”
Information Security Society Switzerland Excellence Award (ISSS)
2025 – Simone Colombo
For his dissertation “Beyond the ratchet: practical challenges in secure messaging”
Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award
2025 – Oguzhan Fatih Kar
“Scaling the modalities in multimodal foundation models”, thesis defended by Oguzhan Kar, was awarded the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award 2025.
Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize
2025 – Vinitra Swamy
Vintira Swamy is the 2025 laureate of the Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize.
Doctoral Program Thesis Distinction
Each year, in order to highlight the excellence of our doctoral candidates’ research work and scientific merit, the EDIC program grants an EPFL Distinction for exceptionally high quality theses. The EDIC Committee carefully evaluated the theses of nominees who passed their public defense between September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025, and rewarded the top 8%. The 2025 laureate names are published here.