Student Projects

Bachelor Projects (6th Semester)

In addition to the projects listed below, which can be adapted to the level of Bachelor students in the 6th semester of their studies instead of M.Sc. level, it is possible for Bachelor students to propose additional topics on embedded systems that fit their personal interests. In that case, contact Prof. David Atienza ([email protected]) to discuss the complexity of the project proposal from your side in order to adapt it if necessary.

Master Student Assistant Projects (Remunerated, for officially registered EPFL students only)
	Acceleration of TinyML applications using a cutting-edge heterogeneous accelerator platform Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Ms. Lara Orlandic, Dr. David Mallasén Quintana, and Prof. David Atienza. [read on]
	Automation of a semi-custom design and verification flow for ultra-low-leakage always-on circuits relying on differential logic Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Davide Schiavone, Dr. Alexandre Levisse, Prof. Matias Miguez, Robin Leplae, Juan Sapriza, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Integrated generation/test loop of EEG-based epilepsy detection on edge devices Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Mr. Amirhossein Shabazinia, Ms. Yuxuan Wang, Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Firmware development for efficient biosignal data management Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr Jérôme Thevenot, Lara Orlandic [read on]
Summer Internship Projects (Remunerated, for officially registered EPFL students only)
	Full-system power & energy evaluation of GreenDVFS against built-in Linux governors Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Prof. David Atienza, Dr. Miguel Peón-Quirós, Dr. Xavier Ouvrard [read on]
	Analysis of Acoustic Emissions from the Knee through Wearable Devices Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Jérôme Thévénot, Dr. Tomas Teijeiro, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
Master Projects
	Eyes on the Unmeasured: Blind Forecasting through Multivariate Attention Networks Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Golnoosh Abdollahinejad, Dr. Denisa Constantinescu, Prof. Dr. David Atienza [read on]
	When Sensors Go Silent: Masked Multivariate Transformers for Robust Urban Water Forecasting Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Golnoosh Abdollahinejad, Dr. Denisa Constantinescu, Prof. Dr. David Atienza [read on]
	High-Throughput Multiply-Accumulate for an Edge-Oriented Near-Memory Computing Device Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Michele Caon, Dr. Davide Schiavone, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Fast compilation for Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) via Graph Minors Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Ms. Yuxuan Wang, Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Design of a full-custom, analog filter for feature enhancement of neural signals Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Juan Sapriza, Dr. Nicolas Calarco, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Optimizing a versatile wearable platform for rapid-prototyping using a RISC-V based co-processor for EEG processing Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Jérôme Thevenot, Stefano Albini, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Development of a Wearable Textile Capacitive Sensing System for Human Body Motion Tracking Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Jonathan Dan, Stefano Albini, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Continual Learning Approaches for EEG-Based Seizure Detection Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Amirhossein Shahbazinia, Dr. Jonathan Dan, Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni, Prof. David Atienza Alonso [read on]
	Microarchitectural explorations for biomedical applications Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Miguel Peón-Quirós, EcoCloud; Prof. David Atienza, ESL; Stefano Albini, ESL [read on]
	Enabling Local Tightly, Global Loosely coupled Programmable Accelerators Heterogeneous Systems by integrating X-HEEP into ESP SoCs Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Davide Schiavone, Prof. Daniele Jahier Pagliari, Prof. Alessio Burrello, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Cross-layer system/hardware framework for near-DRAM acceleration of machine learning algorithms Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Mr. Rafael Medina Morillas, Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Implementation of a smart DMA for a RISC-V Near-Memory Computing Microcontroller Lab: ESLTCL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Davide Schiavone, Dr. Jose Miranda, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	HW design and development of a novel, flexible and versatile EEG wearable system Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. José Miranda Calero, Dr. Jérôme Thevenot, Dr. Jonathan Dan, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Porting and Optimization of biomedical benchmark applications to the X-HEEP Open-Source RISC-V-based microcontroller platform Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Davide Schiavone, Mr. Dimitrios Samakovlis, Mr. Stefano Albini, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	TinyML for Audio Deep Learning Algorithms Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Davide Schiavone, Dr. Jose Miranda, Dr. Milos Cernak, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Implementation of an Accelerator based on Near-Memory Computing IPs for a RISC-V-based Microcontroller Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Davide Schiavone, Michele Caon, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Exploring DNN implementations for Realtime in-memory genome sequencing Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni, Dr. William Simon, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	DNA analysis algorithms for Realtime in-memory genome sequencing Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni, Dr. William Simon, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	X-HEEP Accelerators: design, verification, and integration of a general purpose co-processor/accelerator based on RISC-V for edge-computing SoCs Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Davide Schiavone, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Towards intelligent laser welding: automatic control of processing quality using reinforcement learning and deep neural architectures Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Sergey Shevchik, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
Master or Semester Projects
	Development of low-level algorithms for the conversion of biological signals Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Juan Sapriza, Dr. David Mallasén, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Development of low-level algorithms for the control of a closed-loop Analog Front-End for biosignal measurement Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Juan Sapriza, Dr. David Mallasén, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Custom Hardware Design of Posit Arithmetic Operators for Low-Precision Computing Lab: ESL Sections: STI Supervisor: Mr. Tommaso Terzano, Dr. David Mallasén Quintana and Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Acceleration of TinyML applications using a cutting-edge heterogeneous accelerator platform Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Ms. Lara Orlandic, Dr. David Mallasén Quintana, and Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Development of a Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Array (CGRA) exploration framework Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Mr. Rubén Rodríguez Álvarez, Mrs. Yuxuan Wang, Dr. Denisa-Andreea Constantinescu, Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Enhancing the Efficiency and Accuracy of Radio Interferometry Kernels using CGRA-ME Framework Lab: ESL Sections: ESL Supervisor: Dr. Denisa-Andreea Constantinescu; Rubén Rodríguez Álvarez; Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni; Prof. David Atienza Alonso [read on]
	A novel architectural template for the hardware acceleration of neural networks inference supporting hybrid quantization Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Mr. Rafael Medina Morillas, Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Integration and optimization of Ultra Low Power CPU on the X-HEEP platform targeting implantable devices Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Mr. Juan Sapriza, Dr. Davide Schiavone, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Energy-efficient HW accelerators design on FPGA for SKA Observatory Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Ruben Rodriguez Alvarez (ESL), Dr. Denisa Constantinescu (ESL), Dr. Miguel Peón Quirós (EcoCloud), Prof. David Atienza (ESL) [read on]
	Hardware accelerator design with Chisel and integration in a RISC-V full system Lab: ESL Scala Sections: SEL Supervisor: Ruben Rodriguez Alvarez (ESL), Dr. Denisa Constantinescu (ESL), Jamie Richard Thompson (Scala Center), Anatolii Kmetiuk (Scala Center), Prof. David Atienza (ESL) [read on]
Semester Projects
	Brian Computer Interface (BCI) Application: Real-time Ball Mind Control using VersaSens EEG Headset (VersaBrain) Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Taraneh Aminosharieh Najafi, Dr. Jose Miranda, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Embedded Multimodal Physiological Signal Preprocessing on VersaSens Platform for Mental Engagement Assessment Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Taraneh Aminosharieh Najafi, Ms. Lara Orlandic, Ms. Dimitra Tatli, Dr. Jérôme Thevenot, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	SIMD acceleration of Transformer-based ensemble Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Stefano Albini, Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Mind the Gaps: Missing-Aware Embedding Layers for Transformer Forecasting Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Golnoosh Abdollahinejad, Dr. Denisa Constantinescu, Prof. Dr. David Atienza [read on]
	FPGA implementation of a configurable Compute memory architecture for DNN inference applications Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Grégoire Eggermann, Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	VersaRanger: Modular Edge Sensing Beacon for Harsh Environments Built on the VersaSens Platform Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Taraneh Aminosharieh Najafi, Mr. Nicolas Ian David Robson, M.Sc. Deniz Kasap, Dr. Jérôme Thevenot, Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Edge AI for automatic detection of acoustic events using the VersaSens platform Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Jérôme Thevenot, Wensi Zhang, Stefano Albini, Dr. Taraneh Aminosharieh Najafi, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Comparative evaluation of kinematic features derived from different modalities during a mobility test Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Jérôme Thevenot, Dr. Taraneh Aminosharieh Najafi, Dr. Jonathan Dan, M.Sc. Deniz Kasap, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	ML4Seizures: An automated ML framework for training on seizure databases and efficient porting to low-power microcontrollers Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dimitrios Samakovlis, Dr. Jonathan Dan, Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	MuxD2D: Adaptive protocol-aware D2D communication support for chiplets in the X-HEEP microcontroller Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Ms. Anna Burdina, Dr. David Mallasén, and Prof. David Atienza. [read on]
	X-HEEP Gen: Automating the peripheral & pad abstraction for a RISC-V-based microcontroller Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Ms. Anna Burdina, Dr. David Mallasén, and Prof. David Atienza. [read on]
	Algorithmic optimizations in transformers for epilepsy detection Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Miguel Peon, Hossein Taji, Dr. José Miranda Calero, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Automation of a semi-custom design and verification flow for ultra-low-leakage always-on circuits relying on differential logic Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Davide Schiavone, Dr. Alexandre Levisse, Prof. Matias Miguez, Robin Leplae, Juan Sapriza, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Edge real-time object recognition for drone detection Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Mr. Hossein Taji, Ms. Qunyou Liu, Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Extraction of Heart-Related Information in Epileptic Patients Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Jonathan Dan, Christodoulos Kechris, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Physiological Data Collection Platform for WearOS Smartwatches Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Jonathan Dan, Dimitra Tatli, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Porting X-HEEP to a Lattice FPGA with open-source EDA tools Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Davide Schiavone, Dr. Christoph Mueller, Prof. David Atienza, Prof. Andreas Burg [read on]
	Testing and verification of a fabricated IMC memory Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Alexandre Levisse, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Deployment of probabilistic deep learning methods for context-aware and robust Heart Rate extraction in constrained wearables Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Christodoulos Kechris, Dr. Jose Miranda, Dr. Jonathan Dan, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Towards Audio-Visual Speech Separation and Recognition Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Mr. Cristian Cioflan, Dr. Miguel de Prado, Dr. Jose Miranda, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Implementation of automation techniques for IMC arrays Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Alexandre Levisse, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Deployment of an unsupervised deep adaptive filtering method for context-aware and robust Heart Rate extraction in constrained wearables Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Christodoulos Kechris MSc, Dr. Jose Miranda, Dr. Jonathan Dan, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Design of efficient Convolutional Layers for Near-Memory Computing IPs based on RISC-V Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Mr. Luigi Giuffrida, Dr. Davide Schiavone, Prof. David Atienza [read on]
	Efficient SPI: design, verification, and integration of SPI and QuadSPI routines and HW functions for efficient master-to-slave off-chip communications Lab: ESL Sections: SEL Supervisor: Dr. Davide Schiavone, Tommaso Terzano, Prof. David Atienza [read on]