LSIR Research Awards

EPFL Best Thesis Award :

• Philippe Cudré-Mauroux: Emergent semantics: rethinking interoperability for large scale decentralized information systems, 2007.

ISSS Excellence Thesis Award (Information Security Society Switzerland):

• Hamza Harkous: Data-Driven, Personalized Usable Privacy

Test-of-time Awards:

• MDM 2021 Test-of-Time Award
  • Infrastructure for data processing in large-scale interconnected sensor networks, by Karl Aberer, Manfred Hauswirth, Ali Salehi. Published at MDM 2007
• EDBT 2021 Test-of-time Award
  • SeMiTri: A Framework for Semantic Annotation of Heterogeneous Trajectories Published at EDBT 2011

Best Paper Awards :

• Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies for the paper: “Polisis: Automated Analysis and Presentation of Privacy Policies Using Deep Learning” at USENIX Security Symposium 2018 by Hamza Harkous, Kassem Fawaz, Rémi Lebret, Florian Schaub, Kang G. Shin, and Karl Aberer.
• Best Presentation Award for the presentation: “Pribot: A Chatbot for Privacy Policies” at SwissText 2017 by Hamza Harkous, Kassem Fawaz, Rémi Lebret, Florian Schaub, Kang G. Shin, and Karl Aberer.
• H. Harkous and K. Aberer. “If You Can’t Beat them, Join them: A Usability Approach to Interdependent Privacy in Cloud Apps.” Outstanding Paper Award at the Seventh ACM on Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy. ACM, 2017.
• Distinguished Poster Award for the poster: “The Curious Case of the PDF Converter that Likes Mozart: Dissecting and Mitigating the Privacy Risk of Personal Cloud Apps” at SOUPS 2016 by Hamza Harkous, Rameez Rahman, Bojan Karlas, and Karl Aberer.
• H. Zhuang, R. Rahman, H. Pan and K. Aberer. StoreSim: Optimizing Information Leakage in Multicloud Storage Services. Best student paper award at 7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2015.
• Best Dataset Award for the paper: “Dissecting UbuntuOne: Autopsy of a Global-scale Personal Cloud Back-end” at IMC 2015 by Raúl Gracia-Tinedo, Yongchao Tian, Josep Sampé, Hamza Harkous, John Lenton, Pedro García-López, Marc Sánchez-Artigas, and Marko Vukolic.
• H. Zhuang, R. Rahman and K. Aberer. Optimizing Information Leakage in Multicloud Storage Services. Best poster award at IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, Hangzhou, China, 2015.
• J.-P. Calbimonte and K. Aberer. Reactive Processing of RDF Streams of Events. Best paper award at the Proc. of the 4th International Workshop on Detection, Representation, and Exploitation of Events in the Semantic Web DeRiVE 2015, at ESWC 2015. Portoroz, Slovenia, May 2015.
• J.-E. Ranvier, M. Catasta, M. Vasirani and K. Aberer. RoutineSense: A Mobile Sensing Framework for the Reconstruction of User Routines, Best paper award at the 12th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, Coimbra, Portugal, 2015
• Alexandra Olteanu, Anne-Marie Kermarrec and Karl Aberer. Comparing the Predictive Capability of Social and Interest Affinity for Recommendations, Best paper award at the 15th international Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2014)
• Q. V. H. Nguyen, T. Nguyen Thanh, Z. Miklós and K. Aberer. On Leveraging Crowdsourcing Techniques for Schema Matching Networks, Best paper award at the 18th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), Wuhan, China, 2013.
• T. Guo, Z. Yan, K. Aberer: An Adaptive Approach for Online Segmentation of Multi-Dimensional Mobile Data, Best paper award at the 11th International ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDe 2012), May 20th, 2012, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
• A. Olteanu, G. Pierre: Towards Robust and Scalable Peer-to-Peer Social Networks, Best paper award at theEuroSys 2012 5th Workshop on Social Network Systems, April 10, Bern, Switzerland.
• K. Aberer, A.  Boyarsky, P.  Cudré-Mauroux, G. Demartini,  O. Ruchayskiy, ScienceWISE: A Web-based Interactive Semantic Platform for Scientific Collaboration, Best demo paper award at the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), Oct 23-27, 2011, Bonn, Germany.
•  J.P. Calbimonte, H. Jeung, O.  Corcho, K. Aberer, Semantic Sensor Data Search in a Large-Scale Federated Sensor Network, Best paper award at 4th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks 2011, collocated with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), 23-27 October 2011, Bonn, Germany.
• W. Galuba, K. Aberer, Z. Despotovic, W. Kellerer, Leveraging Social Networks for Increased BitTorrent Robustness, Best student paper award, CCNC10.
• A. Salehi, M. Riahi, K. Aberer and S. Michel: GSN, Middleware for Streaming World, , Best Demo Award at the International Conference on Mobile Data Management Systems, MDM 2009.
• W. Galuba and K. Aberer, Generic emergent overlays in arbitrary peer identifier spaces. Best paper award at the Second International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems, IWSOS 2007.
• A. Datta, K. Aberer, The challenges of merging two similar structured overlays: A tale of two networks, Best paper award at the International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems, IWSOS 2006.
• Z. Despotovic, K. Aberer, A Probabilistic Approach to Predict Peers’ Performance in P2P Networks. Best paper award at the International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, CIA 2004.
• J. Wu, K. Aberer: Using SiteRank for decentralized computation of Web document ranking. Best student paper award at the Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, 2004.

Competitions :

• S.Yerva, Zoltan Miklos, K. Aberer win the WePS-3 On-line Reputation Management Task , 2010 (Results).
• FNS-2022 Shared Task: “Financial Narrative Summarisation“
  • Multilingual Text Summarization on Financial Documents, Negar Foroutan, Angelika Romanou, Stéphane Massonnet, Rémi Lebret, Karl Aberer

Industrial Fellowships :

• Tri Kurniawan Wijaya receives the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award 2013 (See News).

Logitech Prize :

This prize rewards Master projects being characterized by their creativity, their innovation, their pragmatism and economic feasibility.

• Mirko Steinle: Learning Service Dependencies of the Geneva University Hospital’s Clinical System by Mining Logging Data, 2006.
• Enrico Giacoletto: Reorganization of folder structure through local user interactions, based on document clustering, 2003.