Best Paper Awards

Yr.AwardAuthors / Papers
2021FPLStefan Nikolić and Paolo Ienne. “Turning PathFinder Upside-Down: Exploring FPGA Switch-Blocks by Negotiating Switch Presence”. “Michal Servit” Best Paper Award (FPL’21) [PDF]
2021ICWSMKiran Garimella, Tim Smith, Rebecca Weiss, and Robert West. “Political Polarization in Online News Consumption” Best Paper Award (ICWSM 2021) [PDF]
2021ICDCSAntoine Desjardins, Rachid Guerraoui, Vincent Gramoli, Igor Zablotchi, and Karolos Antoniadis. “Leaderless consensus” (ICDCS 2021) [PDF]
2021IEE MDMKarl Aberer, Mandred Hauswirth, Ali Salehi.
“Infrastructure for data processing in large-scale interconnected sensor networks”. Test of Time Award (IEEE MDM 2007) [PDF]. 
2020ACM CCSHenry Corrigan-Gibbs, Bryan Ford. “Dissent: accountable anonymous group messaging”. Test of Time Award (CCS 2010) [PDF].
2020MiddlewareGeorgios Damaskinos, Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Vlad Nitu, Rhicheek Patra, Francois Taiani. “FLeet: Online Federated Learning via Staleness Awareness and Performance Prediction”. ACM/IFP Middleware 2020 [PDF].
2020ANRPGeorgia Fragkouli, Katerina Argyraki, and Bryan Ford. “MorphIT: Morphing Packet Reports for Internet Transparency”. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2019 [PDF].
2019ICWSMRamtin Yazdanian, Leila Zia, Jonathan Morgan, Bahodir Mansurov, and Robert West. “Eliciting New Wikipedia Users’ Interests via Automatically Mined Questionnaires: For a Warm Welcome, Not a Cold Start”. Outstanding Paper Award (ICWSM 2019) [PDF]
2019Caspar Bowden PETHamza Harkous, Kassem Fawaz, Rémi Lebret, Florian Schaub, Kang G. Shin, and Karl Aberer. “Polisis: Automated Analysis and Presentation of Privacy Policies Using Deep Learning”. USENIX Security Symposium 2018 [PDF]
2020FPGALana Josipović, Shabnam Sheikhha, Andrea Guerrieri, Paolo Ienne, and Jordi Cortadella. “Buffer Placement and Sizing for High-Performance Dataflow Circuits”. 28th ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) 2020 [PDF].
2020FPLStefan Nikolić, Grace Zgheib, and Paolo Ienne. “Timing-Driven Placement for FPGA Architectures with Dedicated Routing Paths”. 30th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) 2020 [PDF].
2019IBM QFrédéric Gessler, Chun Lam Chan, and Nicolas Macris, with their co-authors from the Institute of Physics. “Bell Diagonal and Werner state generation: entanglement, non-locality, steering and discord on the IBM quantum computer”. 2nd Prize Winner. IBM Quantum Awards 2019 [PDF].
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EPFL awards 1179 Master's degrees

— At this year’s graduation ceremony, EPFL handed out Master’s degrees along with distinctions for various individuals – from the top first-year student to two Doctor Honoris Causa laureates – in front of a live audience once again.

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The metamorphoses of a committed student

— In the five years that she has been at EPFL, Camille Montemagni has changed a lot. A very gifted and adaptable individual, she has gone from being a troubled teenager to playing a key role in protecting the mental health of students – and she has found this volunteer work very therapeutic.

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

— 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.