Associated members
EFCL Associated Members are ETH faculty and senior researchers engaged in EFCL research (with EFCL Research Grants or with partner projects).
Prof. Dr. Kaveh Razavi
Prof. Dr. Kaveh Razavi is an assistant professor (tenure track) in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zürich where he leads the Computer Security Group. He is generally interested in computer systems and security with a special focus on commodity hardware and operating systems. Before joining ETH Zürich, he started the hardware security track at VUSec, first as a postdoc and later as an assistant professor. He received his PhD from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2015 for improving the scalability of cloud infrastructures. During his PhD, he interned twice with Microsoft Research, building rack-scale computers. He also holds an MSc from ETH Zürich and a BSc from Sharif University of Technology.
Prof. Dr. Shweta Shinde
external page Prof. Dr. Shweta Shinde is an assistant professor at the Computer Science department in ETH Zurich. She leads the Secure & Trustworthy Systems Group (https://sectrs.ethz.ch) and her work focuses on trusted computing and its intersection with system security, program analysis, and formal verification.
Prof. Dr. Lana Josipović
Prof. Dr. Lana Josipović is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich, where she leads the Digital Systems and Design Automation Group (https://dynamo.ethz.ch/). Her research aims to enable various programmers to benefit from digital hardware acceleration and explores synergies across compilers, programming languages, digital hardware design, and computer architecture.
Prof. Dr. Gustavo Alonso
Prof. Dr. Gustavo Alonso is a professor at the Department of Computer Science of ETH Zurich (ETHZ) in Switzerland.
He studied Telecommunications -electrical engineering- at the Madrid Technical University (ETSIT, Politecnica de Madrid). As a Fulbright scholar, he completed an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara. After graduating from Santa Barbara, Gustavo worked at the IBM Almaden Research Center before joining ETH Zurich. At ETH, he is part of the Systems Group (https://systems.ethz.ch/), serving as Head of the Institute of Computing Platforms. Gustavo is a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Distinguished Alumnus of the Department of Computer Science of UC Santa Barbara, and has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Chapter of ACM SIGOPS (EuroSys).
Gustavo's research interests encompass almost all aspects of systems, from design to run time. He works in distributed systems, databases, cloud computing, and hardware acceleration of data science. Recent research is related to cloud computing, large clusters, FPGAs, and big data, mainly working on adapting traditional system software (OS, databases, networking) to modern hardware platforms.
Prof. Dr. Laurent Vanbever
Prof. Dr. Laurent Vanbever is an associate professor in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (D-ITET). His research interests lie at the crossroads of theory and practice, with a focus on network programmability. Overall, he aims at making networks both more performant and easier to manage.
He completed his Ph.D. in computer science in 2012 at the University of Louvain under the guidance of Olivier Bonaventure. After completing his Ph.D., he spent two years at Princeton University working with Jennifer Rexford as a postdoctoral researcher. Prior to Ph.D., he earned his master degree in computer science from the University of Louvain in 2008. He also received a master degree in management from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management in 2010.
PD Dr. Michele Magno
Dr. Michele Magno is a Senior Scientist at ETH Zurich, Switzerland and Head of the Project-Based Learning Center at ETH Zurich. He received his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2004 and 2010 respectively. After 2 years of postdoc at Tyndall Institute Ireland, and University College Cork in Ireland, he joined ETH Zurich in 2013. The most important themes of his research are on wireless sensor networks, wearable devices, machine Learning at the edge, energy harvesting, low power management techniques and extension of lifetime of batteries-operating devices. He has collaborated with several universities and research centers, such as Mid University Sweden, where is currently visiting full professor at the department of electrical engineering and the research center Sensible Things that Communicate. He has published more than 250 papers in international journals and conferences, in which he got bast paper or best poster awards several times.
Siyu Tang
Siyu Tang is an Assistant Professor at ETH Zürich, where she leads the Computer Vision and Learning Group. Prior to joining ETH, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, working with Dr. Michael J. Black. She earned her Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, supervised by Prof. Bernt Schiele. Her research focuses on developing computational models that enable machines to perceive and understand human activities from visual data. She combines machine learning and optimization techniques to build statistical models of humans and their behaviors. Siyu’s work has been recognized with several awards, including Best Ph.D. Dissertation Awards from ELLIS and DAGM-MVTec, Best Paper Awards at BMVC 2012 and 3DV 2020, Best Paper Award nominations at CVPR 2021 and CVPR 2022, and an Outstanding Paper Finalist for Physical Human-Robot Interaction at ICRA 2023.