Awards and prizes

Discover the awards which have been presented to EPFL researchers.

Ali H. Sayed receives the prestigious 2022 IEEE Fourier Award

21.07.21EPFL

Professor and Dean of the School of Engineering Ali H. Sayed, has been awarded the 2022 IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing “for contributions to the theory and practice of adaptive signal processing”.

IEEE Flanagan Award given for the first time to an EPFL researcher

09.07.21EPFL

Hervé Bourlard, Professor at the School of Engineering and Director of the Idiap Research Institute, has been awarded the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing 2022 Prize.

EPFL PhD student wins EPS-QEOD Thesis Prize

30.06.21EPFL

Maxim Karpov, who received his PhD from EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences, has been awarded one of the two 2021 Thesis Prizes for applied aspects from the Quantum Electronics and Optics division (QEOD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) for his work on microresonator-based optical frequency combs.

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Awards for the EPFL research community

EPFL Research Awards

Every year, EPFL awards several PhD students and postdocs; learn more about the EPFL Research Awards.

Lopez-Loreta Prize

The Lopez-Loreta Prize awards EUR 1 million to top graduates (Master or PhD graduates) from four prestigious Swiss and French higher education institutions – EPFL, ETH Zurich, the École polytechnique in Palaiseau, and the ISAE-SUPAERO in Toulouse. This award is intended to allow selected candidates to carry out their own exceptional scientific or entrepreneurial project over a five-year period.

Awards for the EPFL research community

Piaget Scientific Award

The Piaget Scientific Award is a prestigious fellowship organized by EPFL and sponsored by Piaget that aims at supporting outstanding and groundbreaking research in the broad field of miniaturization and microengineering.

Rodolphe and Renée Haenney Foundation

The Rodolphe and Renée Haenny Foundation was created in 2001 with the objective of supporting research in the field of metallurgy and the material sciences, areas of great importance for technology and society.

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