Category: achievements
SwissChips: A national project in full swing
ESL alumnus Alexandre Levisse explores the SwissChips initiative in an in-depth interview. This exciting national collaboration is aiming to boost the Swiss chip manufacturing industry.
US Patent granted for wearable epileptic detection device
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent for the epileptic detection device developed at ESL by the alumni Dr. Dionisije Sopic, Dr. Amir Aminifar and Dr. Renato Zanetti, under the leadership of Prof. David Atienza. The Wearable System for Real-Time Detection of Epileptic Seizures constitutes a pair of glasses and a (…)
X-HEEP spreads its wings
What started out as a doctoral challenge has grown, and blossomed into a technology shared across universities around Europe. As a doctoral student in Prof. David Atienzaâs Embedded Systems Lab, Simone Machetti was tasked to build a modular, customizable, energy-efficient platform that could be shared with, and used by, different teams designing low-power devices. âI (…)
School of Engineering award for RubĂ©n RodrĂguez
RubĂ©n RodrĂguez Ălvarez of the Embedded Systems Lab has been awarded the School of Engineering’s Teaching Assistant Award. This is the second year in a row that a teaching award has gone to a member of the Embedded Systems Lab! RubĂ©n RodrĂguez is a final-year Ph.D. candidate in the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Ăcole (…)
Optimizing interconnects with amazing results
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
 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!
“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: âSeizureGuardâ 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!
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 tomorrowâs world. The opportunity to understand how science and technology impact our everyday life.
ESL-led project given award by the SDSC
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
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 Ălvarez, RubĂ©n; Constantinescu, Denisa-Andreea; Schiavone, Pasquale (…)