EDIC Awards – Calls for Nominations & Deadlines

Below are links to various prestigious external PhD fellowship and award programs, relevant to EDIC. In some cases (where an EDIC deadline is indicated), the number of nominations may be limited, so submission to the EDIC program committee as a first step is required.

With the exception of the EPFL Research Awards, EDIC sends out the calls, details and reminders to all EDIC thesis directors prior to the deadlines indicated.

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Martin Vetterli, James Larus, Rüdiger Urbanke © 2023 EPFL / Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

“New faculty members are the future of the School”

— After a lifetime of research that has included eight years as Dean of EPFL’s School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC), Professor James Larus has delivered his Honorary Lecture, marking his retirement from EPFL.

Neural network for artificial intelligence © iStock / EPFL 2023

IC researchers recognized with ICML Outstanding Paper Award

— The paper Generalization on the Unseen, Logic Reasoning and Degree Curriculum tackles the problem of better understanding the reasoning capabilities of neural networks like Transformers, and how such models can be improved to afford better “extrapolation” properties.

Computer code © iStock / EPFL 2023

EPFL featured in ISCA 50th anniversary research retrospective

— IC professors, collaborators and former EPFL PhD students have been showcased in a volume of retrospectives on research into computer architecture.