Industry Fellowships & international recognition 2023-2024
EDIC & IC Awards – full list
PhD Awards & Industry Fellowships ¦ Faculty Awards & Research Grants ¦ Best Paper
Google PhD Fellowship
Ayatallah Elakhras
Ayatallah Elakhras receives prestigious Google PhD Fellowship
Apple AI/ML Fellowship
Aryo Lotfi
Apple AI/ML fellowship awarded to Aryo Lotfi
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
Dongqing Wang
Congrats Dongqing, one of the two EPFL laureates of QIF 2024 Europe program!
Neelu S. Kalani
And to Neelu as well, the other EPFL laureate of QIF 2024 Europe program!
Atri Bhattacharyya
Atri Bhattacharyya won the 2023 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship!
DAAD AINet fellowship
Akhil Arora
The AInet Fellows are a group of excellent international researchers from the field of AI. They are selected and invited to visit and connect with leading research groups all over Germany. Akhil was invited to join the 11/2023 group, networking on Human-centered AI
ELLIS PhD Award
Anastasiia Kolskova
Anastasiia was recognized for an outstanding dissertation in the field of modern AI
G-Research PhD Prize
Vinitra Swamy
Vinitra won the first place in the G-Research PhD prize in Quantitative Research
Maksym Andriushchenko
Runner-up: Maksym was awarded the 2nd place!
Roger Needham PhD Award
Rishabh Iyer
Rishabh Iyer also wins the 2024 EuroSys Roger Needham PhD award
ACM SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Award
Rishabh Iyer
Rishabh Iyer wins the Dennis M. Ritchie Award for 2023
Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award
Rishabh Iyer
Rishabh Iyer is on a roll! He was awarded one of the 2024 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award as well.
Alireza Modirshanechi
And the other Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award available in 2024 was awarded to Alireza Modirshanechi!
Fritz Kutter Award
Jovan Blanuša
Jovan Blanuša, who recently graduated under the supervision of Kubilay Atasu (IBM ZRL) and Paolo Ienne (EPFL), won the Fritz Kutter Award 2023 for Industry Related Thesis in Computer Science
Doctoral Program Thesis Distinction
Each year, in order to highlight the excellence of our doctoral candidates’ research work and scientific merit, the EDIC program grants an EPFL Distinction for exceptionally high quality theses. The EDIC Committee carefully evaluated the theses of nominees who passed their public defense between September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2023, and rewarded the top 8%. The 2023 laureate names are published here.
Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize
2023 – Stefan Nikolić
Stefan Nikolić is the 2023 laureate of the Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize.
EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award
2024 – Stefan Nikolić
Stefan Nikolić is also one of the 2024 laureates of the EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award