EDIC Awards laureates ‒ EDIC ‐ EPFL

Google PhD Fellowship

Ayatallah Elakhras

Ayatallah Elakhras receives prestigious Google PhD Fellowship 2024

Francesco D’Angelo

Google Fellowship 2025 in Machine Learning and ML Foundation has been awarded to Francesco!

Apple AI/ML Fellowship

Aryo Lotfi

Apple AI/ML fellowship awarded to Aryo Lotfi

Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

Dongqing Wang

Congrats Dongqing, one of the two EPFL laureates of QIF 2024 Europe program!

Neelu S. Kalani

And to Neelu as well, the other EPFL laureate of QIF 2024 Europe program!

G-Research PhD Prize

Vinitra Swamy

Vinitra won the first place in the G-Research PhD prize in Quantitative Research

Maksym Andriushchenko

Runner-up: Maksym was awarded the 2nd place!

SwissMAP Junior Researcher Prize

Freya Behrens

Freya waa among the 3 laureates of the first SwissMAP Junior Researcher Prize, which recognizes important scientific achievements in Mathematics and Theoretical Physic.

ELLIS PhD Award

Anastasiia Kolskova

Anastasiia was recognized for an outstanding dissertation in the field of modern AI

Roger Needham PhD Award

Rishabh Iyer

Rishabh Iyer wins the 2024 EuroSys Roger Needham PhD award

EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award

2024 – Stefan Nikolić

Stefan Nikolić is one of the 2024 laureates of the EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award

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Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award

Rishabh Iyer

Rishabh Iyer is on a roll! He was awarded one of the 2024 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award as well.

Alireza Modirshanechi

And the other Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award available in 2024 was awarded to Alireza Modirshanechi!

Oguzhan Fatih Kar

“Scaling the modalities in multimodal foundation models”, thesis defended by Oguzhan Kar, was awarded the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award 2025.

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, 2023 through August 31, 2024, and rewarded the top 8%. The 2024 laureate names are published here.