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Celestine Mendler-Dünner joins ETH as Associate Professor

Celestine Mendler-Dünner takes up her position as Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, in September 2026. With this step, she also transitions to a CLS faculty member on the ETH side. In this interview, she discusses her reasons for choosing ETH Zurich, the challenges that arise when AI interacts with society and how computer science as a discipline must adept. (Image: Elia Schmid / Tübingen AI Center, edited by D-INFK).

From First PI to Associate Professor: Celestine's Move to ETH Zurich

"One-Wheel Cubli" wins IFAC Mechatronics Paper Prize

The One-Wheel Cubli is a cube-shaped robot that can balance on one corner using a single flywheel. The research project received the Mechatronics Paper Prize from the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). The robot was developed at ETH Zurich’s Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control (IDSC) by Matthias Hofer, Michael Muehlebach and Professor Raffaello D’Andrea. Image: IDSC.

Buse Aktaş receives L’Oréal UNESCO award „For Women in Science“

Four young female researchers will receive the highly prestigious award in Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf, August 31, 2026 – L’Oréal, the German National Commission for UNESCO, and the German Humboldt Network are once again honoring four outstanding young female scientists with the “For Women in Science” Award for their exceptional research contributions. The award ceremony will take place on September 16 at D’Haus, the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus. The recipients are researchers from TU Dresden, the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, the Technical University of Munich’s Straubing campus, and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart.

Women in Science; Award; L’Oréal; UNESCO

10 per cent more solar power without new lines

Using more solar power without expanding the electricity grid: researchers at the Automatic Control Laboratory (IfA) at D-ITET, ETH Zurich, have shown that the capacity of existing grids can be increased significantly through the coordinated control of solar installations. Image: (Adobe Stock).

200 million for autonomous excavators

Gravis Robotics secured 200 million US dollars reaching a one billion dollar valuation, according to the US business magazine Inc. The ETH spin-off develops AI systems that enable excavators and other construction machinery to carry out certain tasks autonomously. Gravis Robotics was founded in 2022 and grew out of the Robotic Systems Lab led by ETH Zurich Professor Marco Hutter. Today, the company employs around 80 people and is already active in Europe, the USA, Latin America, and Asia. (Image: Gravis Robotics)

Florian Tramèr receives USENIX Security Test of Time Award

A paper co-authored by Professor Florian Tramèr from the Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, has received a Test of Time Award at this year's USENIX Security Symposium. Published in 2016, the research showed how machine learning models made available through online services can be copied by attackers. The work has had a lasting impact on AI security research and remains highly relevant today. (Image: D-INFK / ETH Zurich)

Jakob Macke joins CLS

We are delighted to welcome Prof. Jakob Macke to the CLS faculty. Jakob recently joined the ELLIS Institute Tübingen as Principal Investigator and Hector Endowed Fellow. A central figure in the Tübingen machine learning and computational neuroscience ecosystem, Jakob will help shape the research direction at the ELLIS Institute Tübingen, strengthening both the local and European research landscape in AI for Science.

Kashyap Chitta joins CLS

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Kashyap Chitta to the CLS faculty. Kashyap recently joined the ELLIS Institute Tübingen as Principal Investigator and Hector Endowed Fellow. An expert in autonomous systems and physical AI, he will lead a new research group - the Physical AI Lab - dedicated to pushing the boundaries of how machines interact with the physical world.

Siyu Tang promoted to Associate Professor

Siyu Tang, currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, is promoted to Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science. Siyu Tang has attracted global recognition for her groundbreaking research on human motion estimation, avatar creation and motion synthesis in people. Her work opens up new opportunities for applications such as augmented reality, robotics and digital humans. Her research group is regarded as one of the world’s leading centres for the visual understanding of human beings. Siyu Tang has obtained impressive amounts of funding, as well as an ERC Starting Grant. Her appointment enables the Department to retain a top international scientist who covers a broad range of topics at the intersection of computer vision, computer graphics and machine learning. Congratulations!