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Industry Fellowships

Yr.	Award	Laureate
2023	AINet Fellowship	Akhil Arora (EPFL)
2024	Apple AI/ML Fellowship	Aryo Lotfi (EPFL)
2022	Apple Fellowship	Senouf Ortal (EPFL)
2015	Dan David Prize	Marco Mondelli (IST Austria)
2021	Facebook Fellowship	Manoel Horta Ribeiro (EPFL)
2020	Facebook Fellowship	Merlin Nimier-David (EPFL)
2020	Facebook Fellowship	Panagiotis Sioulas (EPFL)
2022	Google Generation Scholarship	Dina G. Mahmoud (EPFL)
2024	Google PhD Fellowship	Ayatallah Elakhras (EPFL)
2022	Google PhD Fellowship	Maksym Andriushchenko (EPFL)
2021	Google PhD Fellowship	Anastasiia Koloskova (EPFL)
2020	Google PhD Fellowship	Fereshte Mozafari (EPFL)
2019	Google PhD Fellowship	Aidasadat Mousavifar (EPFL)
2018	Google PhD Fellowship	Lana Josipovic (ETHZ)
2017	Google PhD Fellowship	Amir Shaikhha (Oxford)
2016	Google PhD Fellowship	Lucas Maystre (Spotify)
2016	Google PhD Fellowship	Damian Vizár (CSEM)
2015	Google PhD Fellowship	George Prekas (Amazon)
2015	Google PhD Fellowship	Immanuel Trummer (Cornell University)
2014	Google PhD Fellowship	Ivan Dokmanic (University of Basel)
2014	Google PhD Fellowship	Onur Koçberber (Oracle)
2011	Google PhD Fellowship	Stefan Bucur (Google)
2022	Heidelberg Laureates Forum	Siddharth Gupta (EPFL)
2021	Heidelberg Laureates Forum	Akhil Arora (EPFL)
2020	IBM PhD Fellowship	Atri Bhattacharyya (EPFL)
2019	IBM PhD Fellowship	Marios Kogias (EPFL)
2018	IBM PhD Fellowship	Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias (IST Austria)
2017	IBM PhD Fellowship	Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias (IST Austria)
2015	IBM PhD Fellowship	Manos Karpathiotakis (Facebook)
2014	IBM PhD Fellowship	Cansu Kaynak (Oracle)
2013	IBM PhD Fellowship	Tri Kurniawan Wijaya (Google)
2011	IBM PhD Fellowship	Radu Banabic (Cyberhaven)
2011	IBM PhD Fellowship	Manos Athanassoulis (Boston University)
2013	Intel Doctoral Student Honor Program	Djordje Jevdjic (National University of Singapore)
2013	Intel Doctoral Student Honor Program	Vitaly Chipounov (Cyberhaven)
2012	Intel Doctoral Student Honor Program	Cristian Zamfir (Cyberhaven)
2012	Intel Doctoral Student Honor Program	Pejman Lotfi-Kamran (IPM)
2022	Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship	Simla Harma (EPFL)
2013	Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship	Alexandros Daglis (Georgia Tech)
2010	Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship	Volodymyr (Vova) Kuznetsov (Cyberhaven)
2008	Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship	Simon Schubert
2007	Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship	Gregory Theoduloz (ELCA)
2024	Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship	Dongqing Wang (EPFL)
2024	Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship	Neelu S. Kalani (EPFL)
2023	Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship	Atri Bhattacharyya (EPFL)
2021	Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship	Siddharth Gupta (EPFL)
2019	Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship	Mario Paulo Drumond (EPFL)
2019	Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship	Kaicheng Yu (EPFL)
2017	Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship	Bugra Tekin (Microsoft)
2015	Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship	Alireza Ghasemi (ELCA)
2014	Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship	Tien Dat Ngo (MindMaze)
2014	Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship	Zahra Sadeghipoor (Apple)
2013	Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship	Alberto Crivellaro (S&h S.r.l. – Software & Hardware)
2013	Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship	Zahra Sadeghipoor (Apple)
2019	Schmidt Science Fellowship	Mina Konaković-Luković (MIT)
2022	Singapore’s Trusted Media Challenge – 2nd place	Yufan Ren and Peter Grönquist (EPFL)
2014	Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowship	Ioannis Alagiannis (Microsoft Research)
2015	VMware Graduate Fellowship	David Tudor (IBM Research)
2014	VMware Graduate Fellowship	Baris Kasikci (University of Michigan)
2020	Women Techmakers Scholars Program	Frederike Dümbgen (EPFL)
2016	Women Techmakers Scholars Program	Sonia Bogos (ELCA)
2015	Women Techmakers Scholars Program	Lana Josipovic (EPFL)
2014	Women Techmakers Scholars Program	Cansu Kaynak (Oracle)
2013	Women Techmakers Scholars Program	Pamela Delgado (Swiss Data Science Center)
2012	Women Techmakers Scholars Program	Julia Proskurnia (Google)
2011	Women Techmakers Scholars Program	Alexandra-Mihaela Olteanu (CSEM)
2010	Women Techmakers Scholars Program	Ruzika Piskac (Yale University)

PhD Awards

Yr.	Award	Laureate
2022	Asea Brown Boveri Ltd. Award	Marios Kogias (Imperial College London)
2018	Asea Brown Boveri Ltd. Award	Mani Bastani Parizi (Kandou Bus)
2019	ACM Doctoral Dissertation	Jakub Tarnawski – Honorable Mention (Microsoft Research)
2005	ACM Doctoral Dissertation	Olivier Dousse – Honorable Mention (HERE Technologies)
2019	ACM SIGARCH/TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award	Alexandros Daglis – Honorable Mention (Georgia Tech)
2016	ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award	Sofien Bouaziz – Honorable Mention (Google)
2023	ACM SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Award	Rishabh Iyer (UC Berkeley)
2021	ACM SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Award	Marios Kogias (Imperial College London)
2024	CYD Award for outstanding PhD thesis	Dina G. Mahmoud (American University in Cairo)
2025	Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award	Oguzhan Fatih Kar (Apple)
2024	Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award	Alireza Modirshanechi (Helmholt + MPI)
2024	Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award	Rishabh Iyer (UC Berkeley)
2021	Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award	Sai Praneeth Karimireddy (UC Berkeley)
2019	Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award	Jakub Tarnawski (Microsoft Research)
2018	Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award	Manos Karpathiotakis (Facebook)
2015	Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award	Mingfu Shao (Pennsylvania State University)
2019	Lopez-Loreta Prize	Marco Mondelli (IST Austria)
2022	Thesis Distinction	Mikhail Asiatici (AMD)
2022	Thesis Distinction	Sai Praneeth Karimireddy (Berkeley)
2022	Thesis Distinction	Tao Lin (Westlake U)
2022	Thesis Distinction	Michalina Pacholska (Cosimmetry)
2021	Thesis Distinction	Lana Josipović (ETH Zurich)
2021	Thesis Distinction	Mihail Igor Zablotchi (MIT)
2020	Thesis Distinction	El Mahdi El Mhamdi
2020	Thesis Distinction	Lefteris Kokoris Kogias (IST Austria)
2019	Thesis Distinction	Mina Konaković Luković (MIT)
2019	Thesis Distinction	Jakub Tarnawski (Microsoft Research)
2019	Thesis Distinction	Benjamin Wesolowski (Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica)
2019	Thesis Distinction	Alp Yurtsever (MIT)
2018	Thesis Distinction	Alexandros Daglis (Georgia Tech)
2018	Thesis Distinction	Ravi Kandhadai (Apple)
2018	Thesis Distinction	Lucas Maystre (Spotify)
2018	Thesis Distinction	Ashkan Norouzi Fard (Google)
2017	Thesis Distinction	Amir Shaikhha (Oxford)
2017	Thesis Distinction	Alexandru Ichim (Oculus VR)
2017	Thesis Distinction	Marco Mondelli (IST Austria)
2017	Thesis Distinction	Goran Radanovic (Harvard)
2019	EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award	Jakub Tarnawski (Microsoft Research)
2024	EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award	Stefan Nikolić (U Novi Sad)
2021	EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award	Lana Josipović (ETH Zurich)
2020	EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award	Eleonora Testa (Synopsis Inc.)
2015	EDAA Distinguished Dissertation Award	Luca Amaru (Synopsys Inc)
2010	EDAA Distinguished Dissertation Award	Ajay K. Verma (Google)
2007	EDAA Distinguished Dissertation Award	Frederic Worm (Easyjet)
2025	ELLIS PhD Award	Maksym Andriushchenko (ELLIS Institute & MPI for Intelligent Systems)
2024	ELLIS PhD Award	Anastasiia Koloskova (Stanford)
2022	EPFL Doctorate Award	Lana Josipović (ETH Zurich)
2020	EPFL Doctorate Award	Jakub Tarnawski (Microsoft Research)
2019	EPFL Doctorate Award	Rajai Nasser (ETH Zurich)
2018	EPFL Doctorate Award	Marco Mondelli (IST Austria)
2017	EPFL Doctorate Award	Baris Kasikci – Honorable Mention (University of Michigan)
2016	EPFL Doctorate Award	Ivan Dokmanic (University of Basel)
2013	EPFL Doctorate Award	Eren Sasoglu (Apple)
2011	EPFL Doctorate Award	Ayfer Ozgür (Stanford)
2009	EPFL Doctorate Award	Radu Jurca (Google)
2006	EPFL Doctorate Award	Philippe Cudré-Mauroux (University of Fribourg)
2002	EPFL Doctorate Award	Michael Gastpar (EPFL)
2001	EPFL Doctorate Award	Minh N. Do (UIUC)
2013	ERCIM WG STM Best PhD Thesis Award	Pouyan Sepehrdad (Qualcomm)
2020	Eurographics PhD & Young Researcher Award	Mina Konaković Luković (MIT), PhD Thesis Award
2020	Eurographics PhD & Young Researcher Award	Duygu Ceylan (Adobe), Young Researcher Award
2018	Eurographics Young Researcher Award	Sofien Bouaziz (Google)
2018	Eurographics PhD Award	Anastasia Tkach (Meta)
2024	EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award	Rishabh Iyer (UC Berkeley)
2022	EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award	Igor Zablotchi (MIT), Honourable Mention
2021	EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award	Marios Kogias (Imperial College London), Honourable Mention
2019	EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award	Manos Karpathiotakis (Facebook)
2017	EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award	Vasileios Trigonakis (Oracle)
2016	EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award	Baris Kasikci (University of Michigan)
2023	Fritz Kutter Award for Industry Related Thesis in CS	Jovan Blanuša (IBM)
2021	Fritz Kutter Award for Industry Related Thesis in CS	Lana Josipović (ETH Zurich)
2015	Fritz Kutter Award for Industry Related Thesis in CS	Sofien Bouaziz (Google)
2013	Fritz Kutter Award for Industry Related Thesis in CS	Albrecht Lindner (Qualcomm)
2012	Fritz Kutter Award for Industry Related Thesis in CS	Feng Yang (Google)
2008	Fritz Kutter Award for Industry Related Thesis in CS	Ivana Jovanovic (SonoView Acoustic Sensing Technologies)
2000	Fritz Kutter Award for Industry Related Thesis in CS	Fabrizio Smeraldi (Queen Mary University of London)
2024	G-Research PhD Prize in Quantitative Research	Vinitra Swamy (EPFL)
2018	George Girault PhD Award	Frank Bonnet (Bionomous)
2020	GI-Dissertationspreis	Jakub Tarnawski (Microsoft Research)
2015	IBM Research Award	Reza Parhizkar (EPFL)
2018	Information Security Society Switzerland Excellence Award	Damian Vizár (CSEM)
2017	Information Security Society Switzerland Excellence Award	Hamza Harkous (Google)
2024	Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize	Maksym Andriushchenko (EPFL)
2023	Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize	Stefan Nikolić (Novi Sad)
2022	Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize	Sai Praneeth Karimireddy (Berkeley)
2021	Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize	Lana Josipović (ETH Zurich)
2020	Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize	Cong Wang (Jilin University)
2019	Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize	Mina Konaković-Luković (MIT)
2018	Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize	Ashkan Norouzi Fard (Google)
2017	Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize	Marco Mondelli (IST Austria)
2016	Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize	Baris Kasikci (University of Michigan)
2015	Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize	Ivan Dokmanić (University of Basel)
2015	Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize	Sofien Bouaziz – Honorable Mention (Google)
2014	Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize	Juri Ranieri (Google)
2013	Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize	Amin Karbasi (Yale University)
2012	Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize	Ruzica Piskac (Yale University)
2011	Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize	Ajay K. Verma (Google)
2010	Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize	Mahdi Cheraghchi (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
2021	SIAM Activity Group on Geometric Design Early Career Prize	Mina Konaković Luković (MIT)
2020	SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation	Mina Konaković-Luković – Honorable Mention (MIT)
2017	SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award	Immanuel Trummer – Honorable Mention (Cornell)
2016	SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award	Pınar Tözün – Honorable Mention (University of Copenhagen)
2024	SwissMAP Junior Researcher Prize	Freya Behrens (EPFL)
2014	Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award	Hamed Hassani (University of Pennsylvania)
2021	Tucker Prize	Jakub Tarnawski (Microsoft Research)
2007	Ville de Lausanne Award	Toni Conde (PersonalCare Systems™)

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