Category: research
Emerging Research Award for Golnoosh Abdollahinejad
Congratulations to doctoral researcher Golnoosh Abdollahinejad, who has won the Emerging Research Award at the 11th Future Technologies Conference in Berlin. This fantastic work demonstrated that adding uncertainty estimates, through quantile regression, actually improves accuracy in scalable federated learning, up to 1000 clients. Also cited in this research are Dr. Denisa Constantinescu and Prof. David (…)
Shaping optimization strategies with Giovanni Ansaloni
As part of the IEEE/ACM Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK), Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni gave a talk on the following subject: How do the characteristics of application domains shape optimization strategies for computing architectures? Dr. Ansaloni examined concrete examples of domain-specific systems featuring (among others) multiple cores, reconfigurable accelerators, near-memory computing and analog crossbars. In each case, (…)
Denisa Constantinescu interviewed by Horizons
Dr. Denisa Constantinescu was interviewed for an article in Swiss research magazine Horizons. Ecological and economic incentives are often not aligned Denisa Constantinescu at EPFL is studying when a computer centre should renew its technical infrastructure with advanced models that are less economically and ecologically greedy. “In Switzerland, electricity is quite expensive, which encourages changing (…)
Best Paper Award at ARC 26
Congratulations to the authors of this fascinating paper:FACETs: Fast and Efficient Compilation for Control-Dataflow Mapping on CGRAsWang, Yuxuan, Rodríguez Álvarez, Rubén; Tirelli, Cristian; Otoni, Rodrigo; Ansaloni, Giovanni; Pozzi, Laura; Atienza, David The paper was presented at ARC 26, the 22 International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing, held in Cagliari, Sardinia (Italy), April 8–10, 2026, and (…)
David Atienza elected to Academia Europaea
Following a competitive recommendation and peer-review process, EPFL professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering David Atienza has been elected to the prestigious Pan-European Academy of Humanities Letters and Sciences. The not-for-profit Academia Europaea, founded in 1988, aims to advance excellence in scholarship in the humanities; law; the economic, social, and political sciences; mathematics; medicine; and all (…)
Systematic Exploration of Near-Memory Computing
PhD candidate Riselda Kodra will present some groundbreaking research on near-memory computing at ISQED ’26, the 27th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design: https://www.isqed.org/English/Archives/2026/Technical_Sessions/index.html Below is a sneak preview of the talk: Crossing the Layers and Dotting the Details More on near-memory computing: READ ON
Darong Huang in the SwissChips spotlight
Dr. Darong Huang is featured in an in-depth article by our SwissChips colleagues at ETHZ. Read on:
Android meets IoT – the winner is a pet project
The Android meets IoT event was a great success, with some fascinating projects being demonstrated. Innovation, ingenuity and quality engineering were the order of the day. The winning entry allows users to interact with a virtual pet, using a smartwatch: instructing, even stroking an imaginary animal! Congratulations to all who took part, and well done (…)
Do we really need big data centers for AI?
David Atienza is interviewed alongside Rachid Gerraoui, about the future of AI in data centers EPFL researchers have developed new software – now spun-off into a start-up – that eliminates the need for data to be sent to third-party cloud services when AI is used to complete a task. This could challenge the business model (…)
3D-ICE version 4.0 is out
We are excited to share the release of 3D-ICE 4.0, the newest version of our 3D Interlayer Cooling Emulator, which can deliver more accurate and efficient thermal modeling for modern 2.5D/3D heterogeneous chiplet systems. 3D-ICE 4.0 supports modeling detailed material distribution across layers, directly imported from industrial layouts. To handle complex multi-layer stacks, 3D-ICE introduces (…)