Awards

Congratulations to Josie Hughes, who has been recognised for "An exceptional, demonstrable contribution to scientific discovery"

Congratulations to Jan Brändle, who took the award for his paper “Optimal Battery Bidding under Decision-Dependent State-of-Charge Uncertainties”

The award is handed out once every three years and honours the thesis with most significance of potential of business impact, likelihood of business impact to actually occur, novelty of the methods developed, and societal impact of the product/service involved.

Congratulations to Veronica on winning the prestigious award for her thesis, Contracting dynamics for biologically plausible neural networks and optimization.

Congratulations to NCCR Automation alumnus Xavier Guidetti, who was awarded the Hilti Prize for Innovative Research for his thesis, "Intelligent Additive Manufacturing: a Holistic Approach to the Optimization of Data-Poor Complex Processes"

Congratulations to Panagiotis D. Grontas who won for the paper “BIG Hype: Best Intervention in Games via Distributed Hypergradient Descent”.

Congratulations to Jan Brändle, who won the medal for his thesis which focused on quantification of the flexibility potential of real-world distribution grids.

Florian Dörfler has been awarded this year’s Rössler Prize in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the fields of energy and control engineering. The award, worth CHF 200,000, is the most generous research prize at ETH Zurich and was presented to him at the ETH Foundation’s annual thanksgiving event.

Congratulations to the NCCR Automation team.

Congratulations to Ezzat Elokda who has been presented with the Young Author Award at the 5th IFAC Workshop on Cyber-Physical and Human Systems (CPHS) for his paper "To Travel Quickly or to Park Conveniently: Coupled Resource Allocations with Multi-Karma Economies"

Congratulations to Mahrokh Ghoddousi Boroujeni who has received the Outstanding Student Paper Award at IEEE CDC 2024 for her paper titled "A PAC-Bayesian Framework for Optimal Control with Stability Guarantees."

Congratulations to NCCR Automation PI Daniel Kuhn for winning the INFORMS Optimization Society 2024 Farkas Prize

Congratulations to Fabian Flürenbrock who won the award for his paper Model-Based Estimation of Ventricular Cerebrospinal Fluid Volume, authored by Fabian Flürenbrock, Simon Muntwiler, Leonie Korn, Marianne Schmid Daners, Melanie N. Zeilinger.

The NCCR Automation has won the SNSF's Lighthouse Award in the Open Science category for its Data Kiosk, an app that provides simple, attractive, centralised access to public data.

Congratulations to Paolo Gherardo Carlet, Andrea Favato, Saverio Bolognani and Florian Dorfler for winning the Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL) Prize Paper Award for their paper "Data-Driven Continuous-Set Predictive Current Control for Synchronous Motor Drives"

The jury gave the following motivation: "The paper is being recognized for making a timely contribution to address noise-corrupted datasets in data-driven modeling and control through a principled statistical approach. The paper stands out for its completeness and high-impact potential in applications including predictive control and system identification".

Congratulations to Varsha Behrunani for winning best poster award at the DTU PES summer school: Advances in OR and AI

Many congratulations to Baiwei Guo for winning Best PhD Paper Award at ECC23.

Congratulations to our PI Srdjan Capkun who has just been named IEEE Fellow for his contributions to wireless and systems security