EDIC Awards laureates

Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

Atri Bhattacharyya

Atri Bhattacharyya won the 2023 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship!

DAAD AINet fellowship

Akhil Arora

The AInet Fellows are a group of excellent international researchers from the field of AI. They are selected and invited to visit and connect with leading research groups all over Germany. Akhil was invited to join the 11/2023 group, networking on Human-centered AI

ACM SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Award

Rishabh Iyer

Rishabh Iyer wins the Dennis M. Ritchie Award for 2023

Fritz Kutter Award

Jovan Blanuša

Jovan Blanuša, who recently graduated under the supervision of Kubilay Atasu (IBM ZRL) and Paolo Ienne (EPFL), won the Fritz Kutter Award 2023 for Industry Related Thesis in Computer Science

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, 2022 through August 31, 2023, and rewarded the top 8%. The 2023 laureate names are published here.

Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize

2023 – Stefan Nikolić

Stefan Nikolić is the 2023 laureate of the Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize.

EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award

2024 – Stefan Nikolić

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