MSc Thesis @ SRI

Do you want to conduct research at the intersection of theory and practice and build state-of-the-art systems? Our lab offers interesting Master thesis projects in a number of active areas of research:

• Safe and interpretable artificial intelligence
• Machine learning for programming
• Blockchain security
• Programmable networks
• Quantum programming

Technically, these topics span the area of automated reasoning and verification, program synthesis, security, and machine learning. Each of these directions contains a number of different topics and we maintain an active list of potential theses (which changes frequently, as to reflect the latest state-of-the-art developments in research). Many of the Master theses have been been published at top academic conferences in the areas of programming languages, security, and machine learning (e.g., CCS, PLDI, ICML, NeurIPS).

We encourage students towards real-world impact. A number of systems built in our lab, some as M.Sc. thesis, are released as open-source projects which are widely used in industry and academia. See our GitHub page for details.

Awards and medals

A number of students who have completed their Master theses at our lab have won ETH medals and best thesis awards:

• Robin Staab, Best ETH Master's degree in Computer Science 2023
• Franziska Eckert, ETH Medal for outstanding Master thesis 2023
• Anouk Paradis, ETH Medal for outstanding Master thesis 2021
• Christian Sprecher, ETH Medal for outstanding Master thesis 2021
• Mislav Balunović, ETH Medal for outstanding Master thesis 2020
• Marc Fischer, ETH Medal for outstanding Master thesis 2019
• Samuel Steffen, Best ETH Master's degree in Computer Science 2019
• Benjamin Bichsel, Best ETH Master's degree in Computer Science 2018
• Cyril Steimer, ETH Medal for outstanding Master thesis 2016
• Timon Gehr, ETH Medal for outstanding Master thesis 2015
• Gagandeep Singh, ETH Medal for outstanding Master thesis 2014

Thesis at our spin-offs

Master students also have the opportunity to do their theses at our ETH spin-offs -- LatticeFlow, DeepCode, and ChainSecurity -- and contribute to building state-of-the-art products.

To apply

To apply for a thesis, please contact Prof. Martin Vechev.

Past B.Sc./M.Sc. Thesis Students

NameInstitutionTypePosition after thesis Abra GanzETHM.Sc. Tristan GirardLatticeFlowM.Sc. Johan LoknaETHM.Sc. Yuhao MaoETHM.Sc.PhD student @ SRI Niels MündlerETHM.Sc. Robin StaabETHM.Sc. Willi Studer Prize for best Master's degree in computer science, PhD student @ SRI Mark VeroETHM.Sc. PhD student @ SRI Johannes WeidenfellerLatticeFlowM.Sc. Mengtao ZhangLatticeFlowM.Sc. Roman AngehrnETHM.Sc. Fabian BosshardLatticeFlowM.Sc.Maching Learning Engineer at LatticeFlow Florian DornerETHM.Sc.PhD student at Max-Planck-Institute Tübingen Franziska EckertETHM.Sc. ETH Medal for outstanding Master thesis
project intern @ SRI Gabriel FringeliSnykM.Sc.Software Engineer at Snyk Martin KuceraETHM.Sc.Software Engineer at Google Wenjie QiuETHM.Sc. Jiacheng ShenETHM.Sc.at Tencent Keen Lab Robert SzaszETHM.Sc. Nikolas VolkenETHM.Sc.Data Quality Intern at LatticeFlow Mustafa ZeqiriETHM.Sc.Data Scientist Intern at Syngenta Aurélia AutemETHM.Sc.DevOps Network Engineer at Pictet Group Simone BarbaroETHM.Sc.Machine Learning Engineer at Oracle Labs Liangwei ChenLatticeFlowM.Sc.at Google Tokyo Fabian DokicETHM.Sc. Claudio FerrariETHM.Sc.at BLP Digital Jakob HeckelmannETHM.Sc.Software Engineering Intern at Google Carolin Hecking-VeltmanLatticeFlowM.Sc.Research Engineer (Computer Vision/Neural Rendering) at Synthesia | CDTM | TUM Miklós HorváthETHM.Sc.research engineer at DeepMind Felix HuberETHM.Sc. Nikola JovanovićETHM.Sc.PhD student @ SRI Yannick MerkliLatticeFlowM.Sc.Machine Learning Engineer at LatticeFlow Katja MöhringETHM.Sc. Anian RuossETHM.Sc.at DeepMind Roger BaumgartnerETHM.Sc. Hüseyin BerabiETHM.Sc.at DeepCode Luca Beurer-KellnerETHM.Sc.PhD student @ SRI Tobias BrodmannETHM.Sc. Alexander HägeleETHB.Sc. Johannes KapfhammerDeepCodeM.Sc.intern @ DeepCode Tobias LorenzETHM.Sc.PhD student at CISPA Mark MüllerETHM.Sc.PhD student @ SRI Anouk ParadisETHM.Sc. ETH Medal for outstanding Master's thesis
PhD student @ SRI Wonryong RyouETHM.Sc.Machine Learning Engineer at Quora Ioannis SachinoglouETHM.Sc.at PwC Aleixo SánchezETHM.Sc.at Web3 Foundation Lukas SchärETHM.Sc.Software Engineer at Adnovum Benjamin SchmidETHM.Sc. Gishor SivanrupanDeepCodeM.Sc.at DeepCode Christian SprecherETHM.Sc. ETH Medal for outstanding Master's thesis Wen-Chieh TungETHM.Sc.at DeepCode Meet VoraETHM.Sc. Chengyuan YaoETHM.Sc.at Google Nick BaumannETHM.Sc. Rubin DeliallisiETHM.Sc. Thomas CambierETHM.Sc. Dimitar I. DimitrovETHM.Sc.PhD student @ SRI Jonas FelberETHM.Sc.at Google Rupanshu GanvirETHM.Sc. Christiane GoltzETHM.Sc.at DeepCode Luc HallerETHM.Sc.at Google Petar M. IvanovETHM.Sc.at ti&m Holding AG Jonathan MaurerETHM.Sc. Momchil PeychevETHM.Sc.PhD student @ SRI Axel PohlETHB.Sc. Carlo SaladinETHM.Sc. Philippe SchlattnerETHM.Sc.at DeepCode Robin StaabETHB.Sc.MSc student @ SRI Steven StalderETHB.Sc.M.Sc. Student at ETH Andrei UrsacheETHM.Sc.at Google Nodar AmbroladzeETHM.Sc.Software engineer at Google Mislav BalunovicETHM.Sc. ETH Medal for outstanding Master's thesis
PhD student @ SRI Viktor ChibotaruETHM.Sc.Software engineer at DeepCode Jan EberhardtETHM.Sc.Software engineer at DeepCode Marc FischerETHM.Sc. ETH Medal for outstanding Master's thesis
PhD student @ SRI Lavrentios FrobeenETHM.Sc.Senior Software Engineer at Northflank Ltd Mario GersbachETHM.Sc.at Microsoft Adrian HoffmannETHB.Sc.M.Sc. Student at ETH Jakub KotalETHB.Sc.M.Sc. Student at ETH Larissa LaichETHM.Sc.at Oculus Polena LilyanovaETHM.Sc.Software engineer at BlackRock Viviane OnusETHB.Sc.M.Sc. Student at ETH Anton PermenevETHM.Sc.Blockchain security engineer at ChainSecurity Samuel SchmidETHM.Sc.Software engineer at DeepCode Christopher SignerETHM.Sc. Tobias VerhulstETHM.Sc.at Palantir Frederic VogelETHM.Sc. Nils WellerETHM.Sc.Software engineer at ti&m Cedric BaumannETHM.Sc.Software Engineer at Ergon Nick BaumannETHB.Sc.M.Sc. Student at ETH Benjamin BichselETHM.Sc. Willi Studer Prize for best Master's degree in computer science, PhD student @ SRI Florian BuenzliETHM.Sc.Senior software engineer at Ubique Thomas CambierETHM.Sc. Pavle DjordjevicETHM.Sc.Software engineer at Bloomberg Jingxuan HeETHM.Sc.PhD student @ SRI Quentin HibonETHM.Sc.Blockchain security engineer at ChainSecurity Tobias KaiserETHM.Sc.Blockchain security engineer at ChainSecurity Johannes KapfhammerETHB.Sc.M.Sc. @ SRI Alexey KustovETHM.Sc.Junior Quant & Software Engineer at Crypto Broker AG Aleksander MatusiakETHM.Sc.Software engineer at Google Ylli MuhadriETHM.Sc.M.Sc. student at ETH Rumen PaletovETHM.Sc.Software engineer at Twitter Prabhakaran SanthanamETHM.Sc.Researcher at D-MTEC, ETH Zurich Samuel SteffenETHM.Sc. Willi Studer Prize for best Master's degree in computer science, PhD student @ SRI Alexandra MaximovaETHM.Sc.Software engineer at Google Benjamin MularczykETHM.Sc.Software engineer at DeepCode Matteo PanzacchiETHM.Sc.Software engineer at Facebook Cyril SteimerETHM.Sc.Software engineer at Ergon Informati Pascal WiesmannETHB.Sc.M.Sc. student at ETH Christian FehlmannETHB.Sc.M.Sc. student at ETH Timon GehrETHM.Sc. ETH Medal for outstanding Master thesis, PhD student @ SRI Pavol BielikETHM.Sc.PhD student @ SRI Attila PrintzETHB.Sc.Principal BI Engineer at Vistaprint Gagandeep SinghETHM.Sc. ETH Medal for best Master thesis, PhD student @ SRI Jeremie MiserezETHM.Sc.Software engineer at Oracle labs Jibin OuETHM.Sc.System Engineer at Volvo Cars Pascal RoosETHB.Sc.Software Engineer at flowable Christine ZellerETHM.Sc.at ELCA Informatik AG