EDIC Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize ‒ EDIC ‐ EPFL

Sai Praneeth Karimireddy awarded with 2022 Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize

This prize was created in 2010 to honor the memory of Patrick Denantes, a doctoral student in Communication Systems at EPFL, who tragically died in a climbing accident on July 12, 2009.

The Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize is attributed once a year to the author of an outstanding doctoral thesis from the School of Computer and Communication Sciences.

The prize is awarded by a jury and presented to the laureate at the School’s end-of-year event. Financial sponsorship is provided by the Denantes family and the Nokia Research Center.

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Laureates

Year	Laureate	Thesis Title	Thesis Director(s)
2022	Sai Praneeth Karimireddy	Optimization methods for collaborative learning	Martin Jaggi
2021	Lana Josipović	High-Level Synthesis of Dynamically Scheduled Circuits	Paolo Ienne
2020	Cong Wang	Inverse Problems and Optimal Power Flow in Active Distribution Networks	Jean-Yves Le Boudec
2019	Mina Konaković-Luković	Computational Design of Auxetic Shells	Mark Pauly
2018	Ashkan Norouzi Fard	Algorithms for Clustering Problems Theoretical Guarantees and Empirical Evaluations	Ola Svensson
2017	Marco Mondelli	From Polar to Reed-Muller Codes: Unified Scaling, Non-standard Channels, and a Proven Conjecture	Rüdiger Urbanke
2016	Baris Kasikci	Techniques for Detection, Root Cause Diagnosis, and Classification of In-Production Concurrency Bugs	George Candea
2015	Ivan Dokmanic	Listening to Distances and Hearing Shapes: Inverse Problems in Room Acoustics and Beyond	Martin Vetterli
2015 Honour. Mention	Sofien Bouaziz	Realtime Face Tracking and Animation	Mark Pauly
2014	Juri Ranieri	Sensing the Real World: Inverse Problems, Sparsity and Sensor Placement	Martin Vetterli; Amina Chebira
2013	Amin Karbasi	Graph-Based Information Processing: Scaling Laws and Applications	Rüdiger Urbanke; Martin Vetterli
2012	Ruzika Piskac	Decision Procedures for Program Synthesis and Verification	Viktor Kuncak
2011	Ajay K. Verma	Pre-Synthesis Optimization of Arithmetic Circuits	Paolo Ienne
2010	Mahdi Cheraghchi	Applications of Derandomization Theory in Coding	Amin Shokrollahi