Category: achievements

Optimizing interconnects with amazing results

achievements, memory, research, servers

One of our teams has rolled out Gem5-AcceSys: an innovative framework for a system-level exploration of standard interconnects and configurable memory hierarchies. A series of tests using this new technology will be presented at the Design Automation Conference in San Francisco. In this study it has been shown that optimized interconnects can achieve up to (…)

Yuxuan Wang is Best Paper Finalist at her maiden conference

achievements, internetofthings, research, wearable

  Congratulations to doctoral researcher Yuxuan Wang, who was the main author of a paper that made the Best Paper Final at ARC25, the 21st International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing. This was a great achievement at what was her first conference as a PhD researcher!   Congratulations to all the authors of this fascinating (…)

Android event was a great success!

achievements, internetofthings, research

“Android meets Internet of Things” took place at ESL on the 22nd February, 2025. The room was packed, and a lot of fantastic projects were presented! Prizes were awarded to the following projects: First place: “SeizureGuard” by Francesco Poluzzi and François Dumoncel This app performs real-time seizure detection from EEG signals using an AI model developed (…)

Scientastic 2024 was a great success!

achievements

Scientastic is: The discovery of science and technology at the heart of EPFL Campus, for both adults and children. Two days to explore, practice, meet scientists and researchers who invent tomorrow’s world. The opportunity to understand how science and technology impact our everyday life.

Esther Su Tan, Jonathan Dan, Eisha Raazia and Cyril Matthey-Doret

ESL-led project given award by the SDSC

achievements, biomedical, health, research

A team led by Dr Jonathan Dan of the EPFL Embedded Systems Lab won the prize for Best Research Data Infrastructure at the Open Research Data for the Sciences hackathon, organised by the Swiss Data Science Center. The team developed a research data infrastructure to benchmark epileptic seizure detection algorithms on private datasets. The platform (…)

BiomedBench to be published in TinyML special edition

achievements, biomedical, internetofthings, research

We are delighted to announce that our latest paper on BiomedBench has been accepted for a special edition on TinyML in : IEEE Design & Test The paper is available in pre-print here: BiomedBench: A benchmark suite of TinyML biomedical applications for low-power wearables Samakovlis, Dimitrios; Albini, Stefano; RodrĂ­guez Álvarez, RubĂ©n; Constantinescu, Denisa-Andreea; Schiavone, Pasquale (…)

Prof. David Atienza takes on new role as Associate Vice President

achievements

lire en français The EPFL leadership team have made the official announcement that David Atienza is now Associate Vice President for Centers and Platforms (AVP-CP), having taken over from EPFL President Elect Anna Fontcuberta. David Atienza has led the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL) since joining EPFL in 2008. In 2017, he was named a Fellow (…)

Landmark award for EcoCloud’s directors, old and new

achievements, biomedical, health, internetofthings, research, thermalaware, wearable

Prof. Giovanni De Micheli, head of the Integrated Systems Laboratory (LSI), has taken over the scientific direction of the EPFL EcoCloud Center from Prof. David Atienza, head of the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL). Prof. De Micheli previously founded and directed the EPFL Integrated Systems Center (SI), and was co-founder and Program Leader of the Nano-Tera.ch (…)

Exploring open hardware/software at the cutting Edge with HiPEAC

achievements, internetofthings, research, wearable

ACACES is an annual summer school organised by the HiPEAC project (High Performance Embedded Architecture and Compilation). Giovanni Ansaloni has given a four day series of lectures at the 2024 iteration of this prestigious event Maintaining rapid growth in computing performance is key for tackling the societal challenges shaping Europe and assuring our global competitiveness (…)

Best Poster award for Epilsepsy Monitoring Framework

achievements, biomedical, health, research

Dr Jonathan Dan has received the a Best Paper Award at Data Science for the Sciences (DS4S), a conference organized by the Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) and the University of Bern (UniBE). SzCORE is a framework for the validation of epileptic seizure detection algorithms, another step forward in the ongoing research carried out at (…)