Fritz Kutter Fonds

Previous Prizewinners of  the Fritz Kutter Award 

2023

Jovan Blanuša, Dissertation EPFL, «Acceleration of Graph Pattern Mining and Applications to Financial Crime».

Sankalan Pal Chowdhury, Master Thesis ETHZ,  «A Dialogue Tutoring Dataset with Rich Pedagogical Properties Grounded in Math Reasoning Problems»

2022

Emre Aksan, Dissertation, ETH Zurich, “Learning Representations for Generative Modeling of Human Dynamics  

Muyu Li, Master Thesis, ETH Zurich,  Efficiently Scheduling Remote And Local Resources in ML Data Input Pipeline“.

2021

Lana Josipovic, Dissertation, EPF Lausanne «High-Level Synthesis of Dynamically Scheduled Circuits»

2020

Kazuhiro Morimoto, Dissertation, EPFL, “Megapixel Cameras for Time-Resolved Applications” 

Nina Wiedemann, ETH Zurich, Master Thesis, “Algorithmic Approaches for Optimizing Linear Infrastructure Planning”

2019

Celestine Mendler-Dünner, Dissertation, ETH Zurich, “System-Aware Algorithms For Machine Learning”
Lucy Linder, Master Thesis, University of Applied Sciences Fribourg,“Using a Quantum Annealer for particle tracking at LHC”

2018

Manuel Le Gallo, Dissertation, ETH Zurich, “Phase-Change Memory: Device Physics and Application to non-von Neumann Computing”
Stanislaw Wozniak, Dissertation, EPF Lausanne, “Unsupervised Learning of Phase-Change-Based Neuromorphic Systems”

2017
Thijs Vogels, Masterarbeit, ETH Zurich & Disney Research Zurich, “Kernel-Predicting Convolutional Neural Networks for Denoising Monte-Carlo Renderings”
Ralph Gasser, Masterarbeit, University of Basel, “Towards an All-Purpose, Content-Based Multimedia Information Retrieval System”

2016
Zan Li, Dissertation, University of Bern, “Fine-grained indoor positioning and tracking systems”
Timo Horstschäfer, Masterarbeit, University of Zurich, “Parallel Tracking Depth Estimation and Image Reconstruction with an Event Camera”

2015
Sofien Bouaziz, Dissertation, EPF Lausanne, “Realtime Face Tracking and Animation”
Tanja Kaeser Jacober, Dissertation, ETH Zurich, “Modeling and Optimizing Computer-Assisted Mathematics Learning in Children”

2014
Basil Huber, Masterarbeit, University of Zurich, “High Speed Pose Estimation using a Dynamic Vision Sensor”

2013
Albrecht Lindner, Dissertation, EPF Lausanne, “Semantic Awareness for Automatic Image Interpretation”

2012
Feng Yang, Dissertation, EPF Lausanne, “Bits from Photons: Oversampled Binary Image Acquisition”

2011
Alessandra Gorla, Dissertation, University of Lugano, “Automatic Workarounds: Exploiting the Intrinsic Redundancy of Software Systems”
Sukriti Ramesh, Masterarbeit, ETH Zürich, “CrowdDB – Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing”

2010
Reto Gantenbein, Masterarbeit, University of Bern, “Virtualmesh: An Emulation Framework for Wireless Mesh Networks in OMNET++”
René Müller, Dissertation, ETH Zürich, “Data Stream Processing on Embedded Devices”

2009
Babara Solenthaler, Dissertation, University of Zurich, “Incompressible Fluid Simulation and Advanced Surface Handling with SPH”

2008
Noe Lutz, Masterarbeit, ETH Zürich, “Towards Revealing Attackers’ Intent by Automatically Decrypting Network Traffic”
Ivana Jovanovic, Dissertation, EPF Lausanne, “Inverse Problems in Acoustic Tomography”

2007
Dominique Guinard, Masters Thesis, University of Fribourg, RelateGateways: An Architecture to Enable Spontaneous Mobile Spatial Interaction with Pervasive Services (See article of the University of Fribourg and press release.)

2006
Jörg Wagner, Semesterarbeit, ETH Zürich, “Analysis of Dynamics in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks”
Michael Rohs, Dissertation, ETH Zürich, “Linking Physical and Virtual Worlds with Visual Markers and Handheld Devices”

2005
Christoph Göldi and Roman Hiestand, Masters Thesis, ETH Zurich, Scan Detection Based Identification of Worm-Infected Hosts, Zusammenfassung

2004
Jonas Trindler and Raphael Zwiker, Diplomarbeit, HSR Rapperswil/Uni Zurich/ETH Zurich, Adaptive Building Intelligence, Zusammenfassug

2003
Ibrahim Khalil, Dissertation, University of Berne, Dynamic Service Provisioning in IP Networks

2002
no prize awarded

2001
Roger Weber, Dissertation, ETH Zürich, “Similarity Search in High-Dimensional Vector Spaces”
Martin Gantenbein, Diplomarbeit, ETH Zürich, “The Train Length Problem”
(See article in Zurich Newspaper “20 mins”, 29 November 2001)

2000
Raimond Reichert, Diplomarbeit, ETH Zürich, “Ein spielerischer Einsteig ins Programmieren: Kara, der programmierbare Marienkäfer” Fabrizio Smeraldi, Dissertation, EPF Lausanne, “Attention-driven Pattern Recognition”

1999
Andreas Myka, Uni Tübingen, Germany
Yuen-Hsien Tseng, Fu Jen Catholic Uni, Taiwan
both on the theme “Automatic Cataloguing and Searching”

1998
Guido Kaufmann, Uni Bern, “Erkennung von Handschrift mittels Hidden Markov Modellen”
Dirk Jonscher, Uni Zürich, “Access Control in Object-Oriented Federated Database Systems”

1997
Matthias Zimmermann, Uni Bern, “Maschinelle Erkennung handgeschriebener Zahlen”
Martin Braschler, ETH Zürich, “Experimente mit sprachübergreifender Informationssuche”

1996
Stefan Wengi, ETH Zürich, “Eine Benutzerverwaltung für RDFS”
Thomas Sprenger, ETH Zürich, “Software- und Hardwareimplementation der IrDA-Protokollstack”

1995
Berthe Choueiry, ETH Lausanne, “Abstraction Methods for Resource Allocation”
Gerard Milmeister, ETH Zürich, “Functional Kernel with Modules”

1994
Ruggero Milanese, Uni Genf, “Detecting Salient Regions in an Image: From Biological Evidence to Computer Implementation”
Martin Wechsler, ETH Zürich,”Ermittlung der Retrieval-Effektivität eines Speech Retrieval Systems”
Prem Kuma Kalra, Uni Genf, “An Interactive Multimodal Facial Animation System”
Markus Roth, Uni Bern, “Off-line Erkennung kursiver Handschrift mit Markov-Modellen”

1993
Alex Birrer, ETH Zürich, “Entwurf eines Datenmodells fü die Verwaltung und Analyse von Bienengesundheitsdaten”

1992
Ambros Marzetta, ETH Zürich, “Hochleistungs-Transportprotokoll für transaktionsorientierte Anwendungen”
Rene W. Keller, ETH Zürich, “Entwicklung einer Retrieval-Komponente für ein Speech Retrieval System”
Thoma Meier, Uni Freiburg, “Grundlagen für den Aufbau und die Entwicklung eine Information Retrieval Systems”