EDIC Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize ‒ EDIC ‐ EPFL

Stefan Nikolić awarded with the 2023 Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize

This prize was created in 2010 to honor the memory of Patrick Denantes, a doctoral student in Communication Systems at EPFL, who tragically died in a climbing accident on July 12, 2009.

The Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize is attributed once a year to the author of an outstanding doctoral thesis from the School of Computer and Communication Sciences.

The prize is awarded by a jury and presented to the laureate at the School’s end-of-year event. Financial sponsorship is provided by the Denantes family and the Nokia Research Center.

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Laureates

Year	Laureate	Thesis Title	Thesis Director(s)
2024	will be announced on Dec 5, 2024
2023	Stefan Nikolić	Automating the Design of Programmable Interconnect for Reconfigurable Architecture	Paolo Ienne
2022	Sai Praneeth Karimireddy	Optimization methods for collaborative learning	Martin Jaggi
2021	Lana Josipović	High-Level Synthesis of Dynamically Scheduled Circuits	Paolo Ienne
2020	Cong Wang	Inverse Problems and Optimal Power Flow in Active Distribution Networks	Jean-Yves Le Boudec
2019	Mina Konaković-Luković	Computational Design of Auxetic Shells	Mark Pauly
2018	Ashkan Norouzi Fard	Algorithms for Clustering Problems Theoretical Guarantees and Empirical Evaluations	Ola Svensson
2017	Marco Mondelli	From Polar to Reed-Muller Codes: Unified Scaling, Non-standard Channels, and a Proven Conjecture	Rüdiger Urbanke
2016	Baris Kasikci	Techniques for Detection, Root Cause Diagnosis, and Classification of In-Production Concurrency Bugs	George Candea
2015	Ivan Dokmanic	Listening to Distances and Hearing Shapes: Inverse Problems in Room Acoustics and Beyond	Martin Vetterli
2015 Honour. Mention	Sofien Bouaziz	Realtime Face Tracking and Animation	Mark Pauly
2014	Juri Ranieri	Sensing the Real World: Inverse Problems, Sparsity and Sensor Placement	Martin Vetterli; Amina Chebira
2013	Amin Karbasi	Graph-Based Information Processing: Scaling Laws and Applications	Rüdiger Urbanke; Martin Vetterli
2012	Ruzika Piskac	Decision Procedures for Program Synthesis and Verification	Viktor Kuncak
2011	Ajay K. Verma	Pre-Synthesis Optimization of Arithmetic Circuits	Paolo Ienne
2010	Mahdi Cheraghchi	Applications of Derandomization Theory in Coding	Amin Shokrollahi