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G-Research 2024 PhD prize winners: ETH Zurich

G-Research 2024 PhD prize winners: ETH Zurich

23 October 2024
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  • Quantitative Research

Every year, G-Research runs a number of different PhD prizes in Maths and Data Science at universities in the UK, Europe and beyond.

Each prize is worth up to £10,000 and is open to final or penultimate year PhD students at specific universities, working across areas including Machine Learning, Quantitative Finance and Mathematics.

We’re pleased to announce the winners of the first prize of this year, run in conjunction with ETH Zurich.

Parnian Kassraie

Mathematics winner of our ETH Zurich PhD prize.  Parnian will receive 5,000 CHF.

Parnian is a doctoral student at the department of computer science at ETH Zurich. Her research makes application-inspired theoretical contributions to the fields of sequential decision-making and online optimisation. Her work ultimately aims to enhance and accelerate scientific discovery by employing model-based optimisation for real-world experimentation.

Parnian said: “The G-Research prize will facilitate travels to academic events, enabling me to engage more with the academic community.”

Clara Isabel Meister

Machine learning winner of our ETH Zurich PhD prize.  Clara will receive 5,000 CHF.

Clara’s doctoral research has spanned several subfields within or closely related to natural language processing (NLP). In the subfield of language generation her research has focused on decoding strategies for probabilistic models. She has proposed new strategies and algorithms for executing existing strategies. To better understand the driving factors behind empirically effective decoding strategies, Clara has also analysed several properties of various strategies and the text they evoke.

Clara said: “The G-Research prize will enable me to attend conferences, present my work and collaborate with experts. It will also support my research by funding essential resources like compute.”

Learn more about our PhD prizes

We run multiple PhD prizes every year across the UK, Europe and more.

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