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"Choosing the right area of research is vital"

Published:02.11.23 — Three young and enthusiastic doctoral candidates, each working in a completely different domain and faculty, share their insights into life as a researcher at EPFL. Their sole connecting thread is that their labs are collaborating members of the EPFL EcoCloud Center.

IC's Rishabh Iyer wins the Dennis M. Ritchie Award for 2023

Published:27.10.23 — EPFL PhD student Rishabh Iyer has been awarded the most prestigious thesis award in Computer Systems.

QSE Center chooses two INSPIRE Quantum Master awardees

Published:25.10.23 — We are pleased to announce that two outstanding female students, Oxana Shaya and Kailyn Vaillancourt, have been chosen to INSPIRE Quantum Master’s awards for their upcoming master’s studies at EPFL in the research areas represented at the QSE Center. They will be joining the laboratories of Prof. Zoe Holmes and Prof. Cristina Benea-Chelmus respectively, and will receive up to 10,000 CHF each to help with their studies and expenses. 

A game changer for building robust distributed systems

Published:23.10.23 — EPFL researchers have developed a new distributed algorithm that, for the first time, solves one of the key performance and reliability problems affecting most of the currently-deployed consensus protocols.

IC researchers recognized with ICML Outstanding Paper Award

Published:21.09.23 — 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.

Appointment of EPFL professors

Published:10.03.23 — The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of professors at EPFL.

Appointment of EPFL professors

Published:23.09.22 — The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of professors at EPFL.

Nominations of EPFL professors

Published:15.07.22 — The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of professors at EPFL. Professor Martin Hairer, winner of the Fields Medal in 2014, is appointed to the School of Basic Sciences.

Nominations of EPFL professors

Published:10.12.21 — The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of professors at EPFL.

Welcome Rüdiger Urbanke as new IC School Dean!

Published:24.09.21 — At a Dean handover ceremony last night Professor Rüdiger Urbanke, an expert in powerful channel coding methods, has taken the helm of EPFL’s School of Computer and Communications Sciences (IC) from Professor James Larus, after an eight-year tenure.