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Dr Haotong Qin, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Project-Based Learning (PBL) headed by Professor Michele Magno, has been included in the Forbes “30 under 30” Asia list in the “Healthcare & Science” category. He is researching how large language models (LLMs) can be trained more efficiently.

The ETH Board has awarded the title of "Professor" to Dr Michele Magno, Head of the Center for Project-Based Learning (PBL), and Dr Yaroslav Romanyuk, Head of the Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics at Empa.

Michele Magno from the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering and his team have won the 2026 KITE Award. The award recognises the newly redesigned compulsory course ‘Embedded Systems’, which implements project-based learning on a large scale for the first time.

A project that started as a Master’s thesis at the D-ITET Center for Project-Based Learning (PBL) has successfully evolved into a real-world innovation. Victor Luder, after completing his thesis within PBL, continued as a Research Assistant and further developed his work into Cyclowatt, a product now gaining international visibility.

Lars Lindemann has received an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council for his research project “SPAROTICS”. The Professor of Algorithmic Systems Theory at the Automatic Control Laboratory (IfA) is investigating the robustness of autonomous control systems.

Jiantao Liu and Carmine Rizzi, both doctoral students in Professor Lana Josipović’s Digital Systems and Design Automation Group (DYNAMO), have won the “Best Student Paper Award” at the International Workshop on Logic & Synthesis (IWLS) 2026 in Hong Kong.