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Cong Wang wins 2020 Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize

Published:10.12.20 — 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. 

EPFL Doctorate Award 2020 – Jakub Tarnawski

Published:29.10.20 — New Graph Algorithms via Polyhedral Techniques EPFL thesis n°9622 (2019) Thesis director: Prof. Ola Svensson

Dina G. Mahmoud Awarded CYD Doctoral Fellowship

Published:23.07.20 — One of the first recipients of the Cyber-Defence Campus (CYD) Doctoral Fellowship is Dina G. Mahmoud, Doctoral Assistant at EPFL’s School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC). The program recognizes and supports researchers by awarding Master Thesis, Doctoral and Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships. 

Jakub Tarnawski receives Honorable Mention in 2019 ACM Awards

Published:17.07.20 — 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.

Two IC students receive EPFL's first Facebook Fellowships

Published:03.02.20 — Merlin Nimier-David and Panagiotis Sioulas, both PhD students in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences, have become the first EPFL students to receive funding from the prestigious Facebook Fellowship program.

Nominations of EPFL professors

Published:11.12.20 — The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of 4 professors at EPFL.

Nominations of EPFL professors

Published:14.07.20 — The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of 7 professors at EPFL.

IC welcomes new professor, Tanja Käser

Published:13.12.19 — At its meeting of 11/12 December 2019, the Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH Board) appointed a total of 26 professors to EPFL and ETH Zurich. One of these was Tanja Käser, who has been named a tenure-track assistant professor in the EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC).

IC welcomes two new professors

Published:26.09.19 — The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology announced some 20 appointments at EPFL on September 26, including two new professors and one promotion in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC).

Nominations of EPFL professors

Published:26.09.19 — The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of 20 professors at EPFL. Among them, seven women and five men, newly appointed, join the EPFL.