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 externe Seite Jack 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 externe Seite Esri Switzerland’s young scholar award.

Award Ceremony 2021

Vergrösserte Ansicht: Esri Switzerland Young Scolar Award

September 2021

This year a team of four students won the Esri Switzerland Young Scholar Award.
Our congratulations to Yuchang Jiang, Yihang She, Han Sun for their project work "HoloInspect" which they developped within the lecture GIS & Geoinformatics Lab.

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
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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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