Systems Group Awards and Accomplishments

2012 Google Anita Borg Scholarship for Nihal Dindar
Best Poster Award for Jana Giceva at the ACM EuroSys Conference 2012
ACM AOSD 2012 Most Influential Paper for Andrei Popovici, Thomas Gross, and Gustavo Alonso for 2002 Paper: Dynamic weaving for aspect-oriented programming. International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development, AOSD April, 2002, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.

Best Master Thesis Industry Award, Pratanu Roy: "Using Background Knowledge in Schema Matching and Ontology Alignment" completed at RWTH Aachen, Germany.
Fritz-Kutter Award 2011, Sukriti Ramesh for her Master Thesis: "CrowdDB – Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing
VSETH - Timothy Roscoe - D-INFK Golden Owl 2011
VLDB 2011 Best Demo Award for the CrowdDB team: Donald Kossmann and Sukriti Ramesh (Systems Group, ETH); Amber Feng, Micheal Franklin, Tim Kraska, Andrew Wang, Reynold Xin (UC Berkeley); Samuel Madden (MIT)
DEBS 2011 Grand Challenge Award for IS Lab Project student team: Lynn Aders, René Buffat, Zaheer Chothia, and Matthias Wetter supervised by Cagri Balkesen, Peter Fischer, and Nesime Tatbul.
DEBS 2011 Best Poster Award for Nihal Dindar, Peter Fischer, and Nesime Tatbul
ICDE 2011 Most Influential Paper Award for Donald Kossmann for the 2001 Paper on skyline queries
BTW 2011 Best Demo Award for Jens Teubner and Louis Woods

Donald Kossmann honored as ACM Fellow, 2010
Fritz-Kutter Award 2010, Renè Müller for his PhD Dissertation: Data Stream Processing on Embedded Devices
Ambizione Grant, Oriana Riva, 2010
VLDB 10 Year Best Paper Award, Gustavo Alonso and Bettina Kemme, 2010
Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Award, Timothy Roscoe, 2010
SNSF Fellowship for Prospective Researchers, Tim Kraska, 2010

IBM Faculty Award, Timothy Roscoe, 2009
Google Faculty Research Award, Donald Kossmann, 2009
PLOS 09 Best Paper Award: Pierre Evariste-Dagand, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Roscoe, "Filet-o-Fish: practical and dependable domain-specific languages for OS development"
SNSF Ambizione Grant for Jens Teubner, 2009
ICDCS 09 Best Paper Award: Philip Frey, Gustavo Alonso, “Minimizing the hidden cost of RDMA”

Google Research Award, Donald Kossmann, 2008
The Systems Group awarded grant from Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Innovation Cluster for Embedded Software (ICES)
IBM Faculty Award, Nesime Tatbul, 2008
ETH Fellowship, Oriana Riva, 2008