Awards and prizes

Discover the awards which have been presented to EPFL researchers.

Cong Wang 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. © Cong Wang

Cong Wang wins 2020 Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize

10.12.20Research

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.

Daniel Kuhn Winner of the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize 2020

07.12.20Research

The 2020 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize was awarded to Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani and Daniel Kuhn for their paper "Data-driven Distributionally Robust Optimization using the Wasserstein Metric: Performance Guarantees and Tractable Reformulations" (Mathematical Programming 2018). The Lanchester prize recognizes the best contribution to operations research and the management sciences published in English in the past five years.

The 2020 Materials Today Innovation Award to Michael Grätzel

02.12.20EPFL

Materials Today will present the 2020 Materials Today Innovation Award to Prof. Michael Grätzel for his ground-breaking work on solar energy conversion.

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