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Dear all at D-ITET,
With the end of 2021 slowly approaching, I would like to look back and briefly reflect on this year's challenges and achievements.
Once again, this year has been shaped by the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. I am pleased to say that ETH and D-ITET have remained rather safe places with a relatively low rate of reported Covid-19 cases so far, even after teaching was allowed to take place on-site again. This has been made possible due to the discipline of all of you – thank you for this effort! The future course of the pandemic still looks uncertain, but I trust that discipline and solidarity will help to get us through what will hopefully be the last phase of the pandemic.
In this edition of DISCOVER D-ITET, I would like to inform you that one of the most important projects this year, the department evaluation, was completed successfully beginning of November. In this week-long evaluation, which takes place only every six years, D-ITET was reviewed by an international panel of experts. In a series of presentations and discussions (all conducted online), teaching and research at our department was reviewed by an international panel of scientists. I am very pleased to say that the reviewers' report has been extremely positive and confirmed that D-ITET is an outstanding place for academic studies and research. Finally, I would like to highlight that members from all groups at D-ITET made enormous contributions to both preparing and conducting the evaluation – thank you!
Furthermore, I am delighted to welcome two new faculty members who have recently joined D-ITET (or will do so in the near future): Prof. Hua Wang joined us in 2021 from Georgia Tech, and Prof. Lana Josipović, presently at EPFL, will start at the beginning of 2022. Please join me in welcoming them very warmly here at D-ITET!
2021 has been a challenging but also successful year. I would like to thank all of you for your hard work and your countless contributions to teaching, research, services and administration at D-ITET.
With my very best wishes for the festive season and a happy new year,
Klaas Enno Stephan
Head of Department
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| "I am a bit jealous of my students" |
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| Prof. Kaveh Razavi is leader of the Computer Security Group (COMSEC). In our interview he talks about his passion for hacking, why we should care more about computer security, and how he is preparing the Computer Engineering lecture he will take over next semester from Prof. Lothar Thiele. |
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Vigilant visual machine learning
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| The spin-off founder of VU Engineering and D-ITET alumnus Lucas Vandroux explains in a video how autonomous visual inspection systems work. |
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Smoke detector deep within the brain
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| Together with former team member Olivia Harrison from the University of Otago in New Zealand, the Translational Neuromodeling Unit at IBT completed a study on anxiety and the brain’s perception of inner-body signals. |
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| Dr. Lana Josipović appointed new professor at D-ITET |
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| The ETH Board has appointed Dr. Lana Josipović, currently Research Assistant at EPFL, as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Digital Systems and Design Automation. She will join the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory as of 1 January 2022. We wish Lana a good start at D-ITET! |
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| New member in the Department Management |
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As of February 2022, Prof. Luca Benini will replace Prof. Florian Dörfler as Deputy Head of Department. Prof. Klaas Enno Stephan will remain Head of Department. Further members of the Department Management include Prof. Sebastian Kozerke as Director of Studies and Prof. Mathieu Luisier as Delegate for Communication and PR.
Congratulations and all the best! |
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| "Golden Owl" for Dr. Dengxin Dai |
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| Dr. Dengxin Dai has received the teaching award "Golden Owl" for D-ITET, awarded each year by student organisation VSETH. The award honours lecturers for exceptional teaching. |
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| First Outstanding TA Award granted |
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| In a short ceremony on 15 December 2021, the new Outstanding TA Award was granted for the first time to the best teaching assistants at Bachelor's and Master's level at D-ITET. |
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Prof. Laurent Vanbever wins SIGCOMM Rising Star Award
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| Prof. Laurent Vanbever was selected to receive the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star Award. The award is in recognition of outstanding research contributions, early in his career, toward improving the flexibility, correctness, and security of Internet routing. |
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| Congratulations! |
| Read more Award news on our website! |
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| Past events |
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Welcome Event for new doctoral students
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30 November 2021The D-ITET Welcome Event for new doctoral students took place in a hybrid form. More than 30 participant received useful information from several presenters and sources. Read article and download presentation
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"Engineering is fun": Taster day for girls
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26 November 2021More than 80 girls followed the invitation of LIMES (Ladies In Mechanical and Electrical Studies) and came to ETH Zurich to find out more about studying at D-ITET and D-MAVT. Read article
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"Open Day" at the Center for Project-Based Learning
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23 September 2021Hundreds of students attended the "Open Day" of D-ITET's Center for Project-Based Learning (PBL). Read article
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| Upcoming events |
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NCCR Automation Seminar
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20 December 2021SAFARI Live Seminar: Pythia: A Customizable Hardware Prefetching Framework Using Online Reinforcement Learning More information17 January 2022, 16h00 - 17h00Prof. Nuno Martins, University of Maryland, NCCR Automation Seminar (The National Centre of Competence in Research "Dependable, ubiquitous automation") More information28 February 2022, 16h00 - 17h00Prof. Marco Zimmerling, TU Dresden, NCCR Automation Seminar More information
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Coronavirus – COVID-19
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Online social event
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| If you would like to register an event or if you have questions, get in touch with us at pr@ee.ethz.ch. |
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