Awards
| Best Student Paper Award at IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2024: "Drift-Aware Policy Selection for Slice Admission Control" by Jesutofunmi Ajayi, Antonio Di Maio, Torsten Braun |
| Best Paper Award at IEEE PerCom SPT-IoT Workshop 2024: "An Efficient Layer Selection Algorithm for Partial Federated Learning" by Lucas Pacheco, Torsten Ingo Braun, Denis Lima Rosário, Eduardo Cerqueira |
| Best Paper Award Runner-up at IEEE WoWMoM 2024: "ARLCL: Anchor-free Ranging-Likelihood-based Cooperative Localization" by Dimitris Xenakis, Antonio Di Maio, Torsten Ingo Braun |
| 1st place award for the best contribution at Bern Data Science Day 2022 with the abstract "Attention-based Neural Networks for Multi-modal Trajectory Prediction" by Negar Emami et al. |
| 2nd place award at the Brazilian Computer Society Conference 2022 [Dr. Allan M. de Souza]. |
| 1st place award for best Ph.D. thesis at Latin American Computing Conference - CLEI 2022 [Dr. Allan M. de Souza]. |
| 1st place award for best Ph.D. thesis at Brazilian Symposium of Computer Networks and Distributed Systems - SBRC 2022 [Dr. Allan M. de Souza]. |
| 2nd place award for the best Ph.D. thesis in Computer Science defended in Brazil in 2021 [Dr. Allan M. de Souza]. |
| Best Ph.D. Thesis in Joint Alumni in computer science of the Universities Bern, Fribourg, Neuchâtel (JAACS) 2021 for the PhD thesis of Dr. Allan M. de Souza entitled Towards a Personalized Multi-objective Vehicular Traffic Re-routing System (.pdf). |
| 2nd place award for the best contribution at Bern Data Science Day 2021 with the abstract " Distributed and Federated Learning Optimization with Federated Clustering of IID-users " by Lucas Pacheco et al. |
| 1st place award for the best contribution at Bern Data Science Day 2021 with the abstract "Reinforcement-supported Artificial Neural Network-based Trajectory Prediction" by Negar Emami et al. |
| Best Ph.D. Thesis in Computer Science/Mathematics Award 2019 from the the Faculty of Science, University of Bern for the PhD thesis of José Luis Carrera Villacrés entitled Indoor Positioning and Tracking Methods for Mobile Wireless Devices (.pdf). |
| Best Poster Award (foto) from the AdHoc-Now 2019 conference for the paper entitled: Floater: Post-disaster Communications via Floating Content. |
| INF Alumni Award 2018, Jakob Schärer, "SDNWisebed: A Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Network Testbed" |
| INF Alumni Award 2018, Florian Gerber, "Capturing Complex Behavior of Mobile Users for Predicting Next Trajectories" |
| Bachelor Thesis Award 2018 from the "Communication and Distributed Systems" (Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme, KuVS) special interest group for the bachelor thesis "Video Delivery with Multi-Access Edge Computing" of Remo Roethlisberger. |
| INF Alumni Award 2017, Joel Niklaus, “Machine Learning for Indoor Positioning” |
| Fritz Kutter award, 2016, Zan Li, “Fine-grained Indoor Positioning and Tracking Systems” |
| INF Alumni award 2016, Jakob Schaerer and Severin Zumbrunn, “Universal Large Scale Sensor Network” |
| Faculty prize 2015, Jurg Weber’s Master’s thesis, “Dynamic Adaptation of Transmission Modes for Opportunistic Content-Centric Networks” |
| INF Annual Alumni Award 2015, Tobias Schmid Master’s thesis, “AgentBased Data Retrieval for Opportunistic Content-Centric Networks” |
| Best Paper Award (.pdf) from the ARMS-CC-2014 Workshop for the paper entitled Simulation of Multi-Tenant Scalable Cloud-Distributed Enterprise Information Systems (.pdf). |
| Best Paper Award (.pdf) from the WMNC 2014 conference for the paper entitled TDOA for Narrow-band Signal with Low Sampling Rate and Imperfect Synchronization (.pdf). |
| AAA/SWITCH Award (Foto) from the AAA/SWITCH - e-Infrastructure for e-Science program for the A4-Mesh project as The project overcoming the most hurdles in getting started. |
| Best Paper Award (.pdf) from the EE-LSDS 2013 conference for the paper entitled Energy Efficiency for Continuous Media Applications (.pdf). |
| Best Ph.D. Thesis in Computer Science/Mathematics Award 2012 from the the Faculty of Science, University of Bern for the PhD thesis of Philipp Hurni entitled Traffic-Adaptive and Link-Quality-Aware Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks (.pdf). |
| IAM Alumni Award 2011 from the IAM Alumni and the GI KuVS Award 2012 for the best thesis in German speaking area on communications and distributed systems for the PhD thesis of Philipp Hurni entitled Traffic-Adaptive and Link-Quality-Aware Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks (.pdf). |
| IAM Alumni Award 2010 from the IAM Alumni for the PhD thesis of Dragan Milic entitled Error Resilient and Robust Overlay Networks (.pdf). |
| Fritz-Kutter Award 2010 from ETH Zürich for the MSc thesis of Reto Gantenbein: VirtualMesh: An Emulation Framework for Wireless Mesh Networks in OMNeT++ (.pdf).
Zürich, 23.11.2010: Reto Gantenbein (Bild, rechts) wurde für seine Masterarbeit „VirtualMesh: An Emulation Framework for Wireless Mesh Networks in OMNeT++“ mit dem Fritz-Kutter-Preis 2010 (www.kutter-fonds.ethz.ch) ausgezeichnet, der jährlich von der ETH Zürich für die besten praxisrelevanten Master- und Doktorarbeiten in Informatik an einer Schweizer Hochschule vergeben wird. In seiner Arbeit entwickelte Reto Gantenbein eine Emulations-Software, welche die skalierbare und reproduzierbare Bewertung von Kommunikations- protokollen oder Anwendungen in drahtlosen Mesh-Netzen unterstützt. Bei seiner Laudatio stellte Professor Bernhard Plattner als Vertreter der ETH Zürich und des Kuratoriums (Bild, links) heraus, dass es Reto Gantenbein gelungen ist, ein für andere Forscher wertvolles Instrument zur Leistungs- bewertung drahtloser Kommunikationssysteme zu entwickeln und als Open Source Software zur Verfügung zu stellen. Die Masterarbeit wurde in der Forschungsgruppe „Rechnernetze und Verteilte Systeme“ von Professor Torsten Braun am Institut für Informatik und angewandte Mathematik der Universität Bern angefertigt. |
| Communications-Software-Award (Communications-Software-Preis für die beste "Software aus einem KMU, einem Forschungsprojekt an einer Hochschule oder einem Forschungsinstitut"), awarded by the GI/ITG Fachgruppe "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" (KuVS) for the Multicast Middleware. Marc Brogle, Dragan Milic and Torsten Braun received the award (PDF) in the section "best Communication Software" and the category "group work". |
| Best Master Thesis award (Preis für die beste Masterarbeit im Bereich Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme), awarded by the GI/ITG Fachgruppe KuVS for the Master Thesis Unsynchronized Energy-Efficient MAC and Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks (pdf), Philipp Hurni, Nov. 2007. Philipp Hurni received his Master of Science in Computer Science in January 2008 from the University of Bern. He joined the CDS Research Group in April 2008 and is working towards PhD in the field of energy-efficient communication protocol design for energy-constrained wireless sytems. |
| Gewinner des Wettbewerbs "Wer hat die beste e-Schule" Der Kurs Computernetze am Institut für Informatik und angewandte Mathematik der Universität Bern wurde im Rahmen der Telematiktage Bern ausgezeichnet. Er erhielt im Rahmen des von der Firma IBM durchgeführten Wettbewerbs "Wer betreibt die beste e-Schule?" den ersten Preis (SFr. 7'000,-) in der Kategorie Hochschule (Pressemitteilung & Auszeichnung). Der Kurs wird im zweiten Jahr des Bachelorstudiums Informatik angeboten und stellt über die von SWITCH betriebene E-Learning-Plattform Blackboard Vista multimediale Lerninhalte, Diskussionsforen sowie theoretische und praktische Übungsaufgaben zur Verfügung. Die praktischen Übungsaufgaben wurden im Kooperationsprojekt VITELS entwickelt, welches von 2000 bis 2008 durch das Bundesprogramm Swiss Virtual Campus unterstützt wurde. |
| Best Master thesis in Computer Science / Mathematics 2007 at the Faculty of Science at University of Bern for the Master thesis of Philipp Hurni: Unsynchronized Energy-Efficient Medium Access Control and Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks (.pdf). |
| WWIC 2007 Best Paper Award for the Paper: Distributed event localization and tracking with wireless sensors(.pdf), presented at the 5th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2007), May 23-25, 2007 (Markus Wälchli, Piotr Skoczylas, Michael Meer, and Torsten Braun).
Bern, 07.06.2007: Markus Wälchli, Ph.D. student in the research group on "Computer Networks and Distributed Systems" at the "Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics" of the University of Bern received the best paper award of the 5th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications held from May 23-25, 2007, at the University of Coimbra / Portugal. The international program committee selected 32 out 257 papers for presentation at the conference (12.5 % acceptance rate). The paper from Markus Wälchli, Piotr Skoczylas (Internship student from EPFL), Michael Meer (Master student at University Bern) and Prof. Torsten Braun with the title "Distributed event localization and tracking with wireless sensors" describes improved distributed algorithms called DELTA for localizing and tracking of objects moving through a wireless sensor network. Based on measurement results obtained in a real wireless sensor network experiment the authors showed the performance advantages over other existing schemes. The award decision was based on the peer reviews from the international program committee chaired by professors Boavida and Monteiro (both from University of Coimbra, on the photograph besides Markus Wälchli (in the middle). The research work has been funded by the Swiss National Competence Center in Research on "Mobile Information and Communication Systems". Markus Wälchli is being funded as a Ph.D. student. Piotr Skoczylas (Master student from EPFL) received funding during his 10 weeks as internship student at University of Bern during summer 2006. Michael Meer contributed by his Master thesis completed at University of Bern. |
| Best Phd Thesis (Preis für die beste Dissertation im Bereich Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme), awarded by the GI/ITG Fachgruppe KuVS for the PhD Thesis Routing and Broadcasting in Ad-Hoc Networks (.pdf), Marc Heissenbüttel, June 2006. Marc Heissenbüttel received his PhD in June 2005 from the University of Bern, where he had been a member of the RVS group led by Prof. Dr. Torsten Braun. His educational career from high school to graduation has taken place in Bern. |
| LCN 2001 Best Paper Award for the Paper: A Range-Based SLA and Edge Driven Virtual Core Provisioning in DiffServ-VPNs (.pdf), presented at the 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, November 15, 2001 (Ibrahim Khalil and Torsten Braun) Pictures: 1, 2.
LCN Proceedings, November 2001: We are also presenting a best paper award selected after a thorough review all submitted papers/ Ibrahim Khalil and Torsten Braun from the University of Bern, Switzerland are awarded this distinction for their paper "A Range-Based SLA and Edge Driven Virtual Core Provisioning in DiffServ-VPNs". This paper addresses a real life problem faced by VPN customers and service providers in a high growth market. It present original results and has the potentinal of efdficiently using a VPN service provider's network and ultimately reducing end user cost. |
| Best thesis in Computer Science / Mathematics 2001 at the Faculty of Science at University of Bern for the Ph.D thesis of Manuel Günter: Management of Multi-Provider Internet Services with Software Agents (.pdf). |
| Fritz-Kutter Award 2003 from ETH Zürich for the Ph.D. thesis of Ibrahim Khalil: Dynamic Service Provisioning in IP Networks (.pdf).
Zürich, 24.11.2003: Die ETH Zürich hat Herrn Dr. Ibrahim Khalil für seine im Februar 2003 abgeschlossene Dissertation "Dynamic Service Provisioning in IP Networks" den Fritz-Kutter Preis 2003 zur Förderung der praxisbezogenen Informatik verliehen (www.kutter-fonds.ethz.ch). Dr. Khalil ist derzeit als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Advanced Network Architecture Laboratory der Universität Osaka (Japan) tätig. Er verfasste seine Dissertation in der Forschungsgruppe Rechnernetze und Verteilte Systeme (Prof. Torsten Braun) am Institut für Informatik und Angewandte Mathematik der Universität Bern. In seiner Dissertation entwickelte, implementierte und evaluierte Dr. Khalil Konzepte sowie Mechanismen, die das dynamische Verwalten von virtuellen privaten Netzen im Internet automatisieren und vereinfachen. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt lag auf der Unterstützung von Dienstgüten. Hierzu wurden Algorithmen entwickelt, die den mit Dienstgüteunterstützung verbundenen Konfigurationsaufwand für die Netzbetreiber wesentlich reduzieren. Das Konzept erlaubt Dienstbenutzern auch eine flexible Spezifikation des gewünschten Diensts. Des weiteren entwickelte Dr. Khalil eine neuartige, auf Agenten-Technologien basierende Architektur zum automatisierten Netzmanagement und zur Erkennung von Inkonsistenzen in Gerätekonfigurationen. |
