TIK News
Best Paper Award for REFault
Stefan Gloor, former Master's student, Patrick Jattke, doctoral student, and Prof. Kaveh Razavi, head of the COMSEC (Computer Security) group, have received the Best Paper Award at the 1st Microarchitectural Security Conference last week.
Top Picks for ProTRR
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.
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)". Congratulations! Antonio Di Maio will start at D-ITET at the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK) on 1 September 2025.
ETH medal for Flavien Solt
The PhD dissertation of Flavien Solt has won an ETH medal, given to the top 8% of dissertations at ETH Zurich. Congratulations!
Best Paper Award for Banyan
The DISCO group’s "Banyan: Fast Rotating Leader BFT" has won the Best Paper Award at Middleware 2024! The paper demonstrates how to reduce the latency of modern blockchain protocols.