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We're excited that our work ColumnDisturb was selected as an 🏆 IEEE 2026 Micro Top Picks. 🎉 Congratulations to İsmail Emir Yüksel and co-authors! 🎬 Join us for the premiere of Ismail's MICRO 2025 talk TODAY 15:00 CEST: youtu.be/IJn8lPjqGuA?... safari.ethz.ch/columndistur... @omutlu.bsky.social

ColumnDisturb - MICRO 2025 Live Talk by Ismail E. Yuksel

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The D-ITET spin-off UNOMR is tackling a "blind spot" of biology and medicine: protein sequencing. Read the interview with Dr. Til Schlotter and Dr. Julian Hengsteler for more insights into the technology and start-up life: ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

New from the Energy-Efficient Circuits and Intelligent Systems group of Prof. Taekwang Jang: A smart microchip designed to optimise recovery after spinal fusion. Developed in collaboration with Balgrist University Hospital and supported by Innosuisse. Read more: ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

Huge congratulations to Prof. Onur Mutlu, Head of the SAFARI Research Group, on being named 2025 AAAS Fellow! The @aaas.org recognises his "foundational and innovative contributions" to computer engineering and memory systems. Read more: ethz.ch/staffnet/en/... @ethz.ch @safari-eth.bsky.social

Big news! Paul Wrede has been named a 2026 Schmidt Science Fellows recipient – he is only the second researcher at @ethz.ch to ever receive this honour. Congratulations! Read more: ethz.ch/staffnet/en/...

A revolution for the electric guitar! D-ITET Master's student David Wieland developed an 8-string electric guitar featuring 64 pickups – eight per string! His video quickly went viral. Read more here: ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

An international research team led by the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna proposes a tactile system that detects touch in a manner similar to human skin. A key component is a neuromorphic chip developed by Prof. Giacomo Indiveri at the Institute of Neuroinformatics. Read more: ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

Precision at micro-scale! Prof. Hua Wang’s IDEAS Group is in the spotlight at @spectrum.ieee.org for their innovative ‘lab-on-a-chip’ grippers. Read more: ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

Timothy Asare from Ghana graduated from a joint Master's program by Ashesi and ETH Zurich. He's now working on sustainable power for Ghana with ETH.

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Timothy Asare from #Ghana graduated from a joint Master's program by Ashesi and ETH Zurich. He's now working on sustainable #Power for Ghana with ETH.

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🎉 Our paper "Revisiting RowHammer: An Experimental Analysis of Modern DRAM Devices and Mitigation Techniques" won a 🏆 Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security. Congratulations to the authors! safari.ethz.ch/revisiting-r... @omutlu.bsky.social @agyaglikci.bsky.social @itetateth.bsky.social

Celebrating excellence in the classroom! Huge congratulations to Max Weber, Niklas Weiler, and Dario Stocco for winning the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Read more: ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

Brilliant news! Verena Häberle and Giacomo Torti have been honoured with the Hans-Eggenberger-Award 2025 for their exceptional research at D-ITET. Well done on this fantastic achievement! Read more: ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

🥇We would like to congratulate Mohammad Sadrosadati on being inducted into the HPCA Hall of Fame! Mohammad is a co-author of four papers at #HPCA2026 including the Distinguished Artifact Award for Athena: arxiv.org/pdf/2601.17615 🎉 Congratulations! safari.ethz.ch/mohammad-sad... @omutlu.bsky.social

Meet Winduction: The D-ITET spin-off is working on transferring energy efficiently from the ground into the wheel. CEO and co-founder Laurin Schwitter on technical hurdles, their vision and how an idea from the go-kart track became a million-franc investment. Read more: ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

🚀 Exciting Insights from Professor Janos Vörös! In this interview, he shares how tackling unsolved problems drives innovation in biosensors and bioelectronics. #ethzurich #research #teamspirit ➡️ Read the full interview here: ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

🚀 ETH students are building their first autonomous Mars rover! Students from across @ethz.ch are developing CRATER, a rover designed to navigate Mars-like terrain. Their goal: the European Rover Challenge 2026 in Poland. The team is looking for engineers and sponsors. 🔗 ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

How do you fit a term's worth of "Control Systems" into two weeks? Verena Häberle and Jonas Matt recently returned from #Ashesi University in #Ghana, where they’ve been teaching as part of the #ETHforDevelopment initiative. Read more: ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve... @ashesi.bsky.social @ethz.ch

Ananya Amitabh, 21, is studying for a #Masters in #Quantum #Engineering at ETH Zurich. She is impressed by the diversity and high level of research. In the video, she explains why she chose this path, how she balances studies with karate and music, and why more women should choose technical degrees.

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed sensors designed to #Enhance the training performance of #SkiJumpers. Young athletes recently tested the devices on the ski jump in Kandersteg.

🏆 We're excited to share that “Athena: Synergizing Data Prefetching and Off-Chip Prediction via Online Reinforcement Learning” won the Distinguished Artifact Award at #HPCA2026🎉 📖 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2601.17615 🥇 Artifact: github.com/CMU-SAFARI/A... @omutlu.bsky.social @itetateth.bsky.social

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) hold exceptional promise for next-generation nanoelectronics. Prof. Mickael Perrin, Assistant Professor at D-ITET and Group Leader Quantum Devices @empa-materials.bsky.social, has co-authored an insightful Review in “Nature Reviews Materials”. ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

At last Friday's Doctoral Awards Ceremony, 7 graduates from D-ITET received the Silver Medal of ETH Zurich. Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Engelbrecht, Dr. Can Firtina, Dr. Diana Ghinea, Dr. Sara Hamzeloui, Dr. Daniil Nozdriukhin, Dr. Kevin Portner and Dr. Johannes Wikner! ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

Biology meets hardware! Researchers at D-ITET’s Nano-TCAD-Group by Prof. Mathieu Luisier have implemented bio-inspired algorithms directly onto memristor hardware. By bypassing external computers and using physical laws for training, they save massive amounts of energy. ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

Exciting collaboration! D-ITET's Automatic Control Lab and Google are pioneering carbon-aware computing by shifting workloads between data centre locations. Sophie Hall and project lead Ana Radovanovic are proving that academic theory can drive real-world sustainability. ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

At 21 years old, an age when many are just beginning their university journey, Ananya Amitabh is nearing the completion of her Master’s degree in Quantum Engineering. The Werner Siemens Stiftung recently profiled the prodigy, who is dedicated to inspiring young women. ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

“We want all devices to be able to charge in just a few minutes”: The mission of spin-off BTRY The Empa and D-ITET spin-off BTRY is pushing ahead with its vision of ultra-thin, extremely fast-charging solid-state batteries. Read more: ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

Breakthrough published in Nature Electronics! A research team at ETH Zurich’s IDEAS Group, headed by Prof. Hua Wang, has developed a new class of high millimetre-wave switches that could redefine future wireless and mixed-signal systems. Congratulations! Full story: ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

The Quantum Engineering Commission is celebrating over 5 years of bringing students together at ETH Zurich. 2025 was full of highlights with an inaugural Quantum Science Slam, the ETH Quantum Hackathon as well as pioneering talks and industry excursions. Full story: ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

The holiday season is nearly here! As the year draws to a close, we want to wish our entire community – students, researchers, staff, and partners – a wonderful and restorative holiday break. We wish you all the very best for a healthy and successful 2026!