ACM Doctoral Dissertation ¦ EPFL Distinction ¦ EPFL Doctorate Award ¦ GI-Dissertationpreis ¦ Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize
PhD Awards & Industry Fellowships ¦ Faculty Awards & Research Grants ¦ Best Paper
Facebook PhD Fellowship
Merlin Nimier-David
IC students receive EPFL’s first Facebook Fellowships
Panagiotis Sioulas
IC students receive EPFL’s first Facebook Fellowships
IBM PhD Fellowship
Atri Bhattacharyya
Atri Bhattacharyya Awarded IBM PhD Fellowship 2020
Google Women Techmakers
Frederike Dümbgen
Bravo to Frederike Dümbgen who won the 2020 Google Women Techmakers Scholarship in Computer Science!
ACM Doctoral Dissertation
Jakub Tarnawski
EPFL graduate Jakub Tarnawski has received an honorable mention in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)’s annual Doctoral Dissertation Awards for a PhD dissertation which tackled two of the most central problems in the field of combinatorial optimization.
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, 2019 through August 31, 2020, and rewarded the top 8%. The laureates receive a diploma and an engraved pen.
Listen to what they have to say about their experience in the EDIC program.
EPFL Doctorate Award
Jakub Tarnawski
New Graph Algorithms via Polyhedral Techniques – EPFL thesis n°9622 (2019)
GI-Dissertationpreis
Jakub Tarnawski
Jakub Tarnawski receives the dissertation award of the Gesellschaft für Informatik eV (GI) for his outstanding doctoral thesis on the mathematical problem of the traveling salesman
Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize
Cong Wang
Cong Wang, whose work will be applied for the first time in 2021 in a smart grid development in southern Switzerland has won the annual Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize, awarded to a doctoral student in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences for their outstanding thesis.