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Optica Names Prof. Juerg Leuthold the 2025 Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize Recipient

Optica (formerly OSA), the society dedicated to promoting the generation, application, archiving and dissemination of knowledge in the science of light, awards Prof. Juerg Leuthold the 2025 Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize. Prof. Leuthold, head of the Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), is honored for pioneering plasmonics based devices and in particular developing broadband modulators and detectors with highest bandwidths.
Fascination Medical Imaging: We make the invisible visible

Klaas Prüssmann is professor of Bioimaging and the head of the Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBT). In this interview, he speaks about his mission to generate images from inside the human body and how he came to ETH Zurich rather accidentally.
Ambizione Grant for Dr. Antonio Di Maio

Dr. Antonio Di Maio has received an Ambizione grant from SNF for his research project "Efficient Distributed Intelligent Applications in Mobile-Network Dynamics (eDIAMOND)". He will start at the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK) on 1 September 2025.
ProTRR has been awarded "Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security"

ProTRR, the first principled in-DRAM mitigation against Rowhammer attacks, has been described in a paper published by Prof. Kaveh Razavi's COMSEC group. It has heavily influenced the design of follow-up work on secure mitigations in both academia and industry.
First-place Prize Paper Award for 2023 in Open Journal of Power Electronics

It is our pleasure to announce that the Editorial Board of the IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics (OJPEL) has awarded the paper entitled “Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Based Fast and Accurate Inductor Modeling and Design” (authors: Dr. Thomas Guillod, Dr. Pantelis Papamanolis, Prof. em. Dr. Johann W. Kolar) with the First-place Prize Paper Award for 2023.
Can poisoned AI models be “cured”?
Data poisoning poses a serious threat to AI language models such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek. This manipulation technique can significantly impair the performance and reliability of the models. New research results from ETH Zurich show how difficult it is to remove malicious data once it has been injected.
ETH Medals for Master's Graduates

Four Master's graduates from the Department of Computer Science have been awarded prizes for their first-rate accomplishments. Congratulations!
From concept to game in 48 hours: Global Game Jam 2025 in Zurich

One weekend, 80 creative minds, and 23 games – the Global Game Jam 2025 transformed the venerable StuZ in ETH Zurich's main computer science building into a melting pot of game ideas. From 24 to 26 January 2025, the ETH Game Technology Center hosted the Zurich edition of this global event and offered students, game developers and hobbyists a stage to explore their creative limits.
"I want Swiss German to remain that secret language you can't learn anywhere."

D-INFK alumnus Severin Hacker, co-founder and CTO of Duolingo, shared his experience in an ETH Global Lecture. An article, published by ETH Ambassadors, summarises content and findings of the panel discussion.
Test-of-Time Award for Ralf Jung

The ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2025) has recognised Professor Ralf Jung and his collaborators with a Test-of-Time Award for the paper "Iris: Monoids and Invariants as an Orthogonal Basis for Concurrent Reasoning". Big congratulations!