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Global Young Scientists Summit

Torsten Hoefler

Meet Torsten Hoefler, a 2026 GYSS speaker and 2024 ACM Prize in Computing recipient. His work spans parallel programming, scalable networks, and performance-centred system design.

Last updated 3 August 2026
Man with glasses and a blue plaid shirt named Torsten Hoefler, ACM Prize in Computing 2024 winner.

Torsten Hoefler is a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, a member of Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and ELLIS. He received the 2024 ACM Prize in Computing, one of the highest honours in the field. His research interests revolve around the central topic of “Performance-centric System Design” and include scalable networks, parallel programming techniques, and performance modeling. 

Prof Torsten won best paper awards at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference SC10, SC13, SC14, SC19, SC22, SC23, SC24, HPDC'15, HPDC'16, IPDPS'15, and other conferences. He has published hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific conference and journal articles, and authored chapters of the MPI-2.2 and MPI-3.0 standards. 

He is also the recipient of the IEEE CS Sidney Fernbach Award, the ACM Gordon Bell Prize, the ISC Jack Dongarra award, the Latsis prize of ETH Zurich, as well as the German Max Planck-Humboldt Medal.