PhD and Industry Fellowship Laureates ‒ IC ‐ EPFL

Industry Fellowships


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

PhD Awards


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

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