EDIC Awards laureates

Google PhD Fellowship

Maksym Andriushchenko

Maksym Andriushchenko Awarded Google PhD Fellowship 2022

Google Generation Scholarship

Dina G. Mahmoud

Congrats to Dina G. Mahmoud who received in 2022 one Generation Google Scholarship for women in Computer Science!

Meta PhD Fellowship

Manoel Horta Ribeiro

Meta (formerly Facebook) Fellowship 2021

Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship

Simla Harma

Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship 2022

Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

Siddharth Gupta

Bravo to Siddharth Gupta who won the 2021 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship!

Heidelberg Laureate Forum

Siddharth Gupta

Siddharth Gupta was invited to attend HLF 2022, which gathers (upon invitation only) the best 100 CS candidates (and another 100 in Math)

ACM SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Award

Marios Kogias

EPFL graduate Marios Kogias has received the 2021 Dennis M. Ritchie Award for his PhD dissertation

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, 2020 through August 31, 2021, 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.

Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award

Sai Praneeth Karimireddy

Optimisation algotrithms for collaborative machine learning – EPFL thesis n°8056 (2021)

EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award – Honourable mention

Marios Kogias

Marios Kogias’ thesis received a EuroSys Roger Needham PhD award honourable mention in 2021

Igor Zablotchi

Igor Zablotchi’s thesis received a EuroSys Roger Needham PhD award honorable mention in 2022

Fritz Kutter Award for Industry Related Thesis in CS

Lana Josipović

Lana Josipović receives the Fritz Kutter Award for Industry Related Thesis in Computer Science to honour theses which are of high quality, innovative and considered to be directly relevant to industry

Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize

Lana Josipović

Lana Josipović, who, during her thesis developed a new way to generate efficient circuits from software programs, 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.

SIAM Activity Group on Geometric Design Early Career Prize

Mina Konaković Luković

The SIAG/GD Early Career Prize was awarded to Mina Konaković Luković