EDC Awards
Student(s) who win the ETH EDC student of the year receive an US$500 cash award, an Esri Press book, and a certificate of recognition and are directly nominated for the Global EDC student award. The winner of the Global EDC student award is selected by Esri’s founder and President external pageJack Dangermond and he or she is invited to participate at the world’s biggest GIS conference in San Diego – the Esri UserConference.
Additionally, students can apply for external pageEsri Switzerland’s young scholar award.
Student of the year 2023
Dominik Mühlematter
Bachelor: Predicting Car-Sharing Demand Using Socio-Demographics
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Student of the year 2022
Jingyan Li
Interdisciplinary project work: Enhancing the Interpretability of Deep Learning Models for Traffic Forecast Through Visual Analytics
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Students of the year 2021
Yuchang Jiang, Yihang She, Han Sun, and Tianyu Wu
GIS & Geoinformatics Lab: HoloInspect
external pageVideo & external pageStory Map
Students of the year 2020
Konstantin Arbogast and Emanuel Meier
GIS & Geoinformatics Lab: Project Lelantos - An augmented reality hide & seek game
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Students of the year 2019
Hasret Gümgümcü and Daniel Laumer
GIS & Geoinformatics Lab: UrbanX - Urban planning in mixed reality
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Student of the year 2018
Jorim Urner
Master thesis: Incorporating Spatio-Temporal Context for Predicting the Next Place Using Neural Networks and Random Forests
Student of the year 2017
Lisa Stähli
Interdisciplinary project work: Pedestrian Navigation in a Virtual Urban Environment: Evaluation of wayfinding directions indicated on public displays
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Student of the year 2016
Athina Korfiati
Master thesis: Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms for Wind Resource Assessment
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Student of the year 2015
Marianna Serebryakova
Master thesis: Automatic Adjustment of Image Sharpness in Relief Shading
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Student of the year 2014
Simon Haesler
Master thesis: Erstellung und Evaluation einer service-orientierten Systemarchitektur zur ortsbezogenen blickbasierten Interaktion mit 3D-Geoobjekten
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