Eight PhD students receive STI Teaching Assistant Awards
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Eight engineering PhD students have been selected to receive a School of Engineering (STI) Teaching Assistant Award for their outstanding commitment to education in EPFL bachelor and master courses during the spring 2025 semester.
The STI Teaching Assistant Award, introduced in 2022, is an initiative of the School of Engineering to reward the extraordinary involvement of PhD students in lectures given in the bachelor and master cycles of the four sections of the school.
Every semester, some 400 School of Engineering PhD students take on teaching duties. The demand is so great that around 40% of them are called upon to support classes led by other laboratories. Each semester, the awards are attributed by a committee based on nominations by the teachers.
The honor is open to all teaching assistants. The eight below were selected to receive certificates for spring 2025, out of 14 nominations. Congratulations!
Matthieu Wendling of the Laboratory of Macromolecular and Organic Materials, led by Holger Frauenrath, for the course MSE-211 Organic Chemistry.
Simon Jeger, Ben Jarvis, Julius Wanner, and Andrea Vicari of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, led by Dario Floreano, for the course Micro 502 Aerial Robotics.
Rubén Rodríguez Álvarez of the Embedded Systems Laboratory, led by David Atienza, for the course EE390(a) Lab on hardware-software digital systems codesign.
Cyril Monette of the Mobile Robotic Systems Group, led by Francesco Mondada, for the course MICRO-315 Systèmes embarqués et robotique.
Guillaume Vray of the Signal Processing Laboratory 5, led by Jean-Philippe Thiran, for the course EE-451 Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition.