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PBL among the three finalists for the KITE Award 2024
The Center for Project-Based Learning D-ITET (PBL) is among the three finalists for the KITE Award 2024. The KITE Award honors particularly convincing teaching innovations and will be presented as part of the Innovation in Learning and Teaching Fair on 15 May.
Silver medal for PBL’s autonomous racing team ForzaETH at CES in Las Vegas
Members and undergraduate students of the Center for Project-Based Learning D-ITET (PBL) secured a prestigious second place in the Indy autonomous race simulation at the tech event CES in Las Vegas. ETH’s team was only surpassed by the experienced PoliMove team from Politecnico di Milano. An exceptional and very promising achievement for the future. Congratulations!
The Robot-dog EFCL-PBL project gets advertised on Swiss TV (RSI)
The project Quadrupedal Robot for Assisting Visually Impaired People, led by Dr. Michele Magno and developed by students and the PBL research assistant Davide Plozza is getting nationwide advertisement. The project has been partially supported by the ETH+ project Future Learning Initiative, and the ETH Future Computing Laboratory (EFLC).
Improved ski jumping performance thanks to multi-sensor feedback
A team of students from the Integrated Systems Laboratory (IIS) and the Center for Project-Based Learning D-ITET is working on a cutting-edge project to improve the performance and training of ski jumpers. The cross-federation effort involves the development and testing of a multi-sensor feedback system that can measure and analyse various aspects of a ski jump, such as the centre of gravity during the inrun, the trajectory and the edge angle.
PBL team won Best Paper Award at ACM ENSYSS 2023 for Innovative IoT Research
Silvano Cortesi, Marco Giordano, and Michele Magno from the D-ITET Center for Project-Based Learning (PBL) received the Best Paper Award at the 11th ACM International Workshop on Energy Harvesting & Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems (ENSYSS) in conjunction with ACM Sensys 2023. Their outstanding paper was entitled "Energy-Aware Adaptive Sampling for Self-Sustainability in Resource-Constrained IoT Devices". Congratulations!
Konstantinos Kanellopoulos joins the MICRO Hall of Fame
Konstantinos Kanellopoulos, doctoral student in the SAFARI Research Group, joins the ACM SIGMICRO MICRO Hall of Fame. The MICRO Hall of Fame recognizes authors who have had eight or more papers published in MICRO. This year’s inductees were announced at MICRO 2024 during the awards ceremony.
Second place at the Asilomar 2024 Student Paper Contest for Gian Marti
Gian Marti, doctoral student at the Integrated Information Processing group, has achieved the second place at the Student Paper Contest of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers – for the second year in a row! This year, he participated with the paper "Fundamental Limits for Jammer-Resilient Communication in Finite-Resolution MIMO," which he co-authored with Alexander Stutz-Tirri and Prof. Christoph Studer.
Prof. Laurent Vanbever wins Dandelion Award 2024
Prof. Laurent Vanbever, Head of the Networked Systems Group, has won the Dandelion Award 2024, which recognises professors for their outstanding commitment to promoting entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich and beyond.