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Our top 10 news articles from 2024

— More than just a year, the end of 2024 marks a turning point for EPFL, with the departure of its President Martin Vetterli after 8 years at the helm of the institution. From January 1, 2025, a new team, led by Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, will take over for a four-year term. This will be the first time a woman has presided over a Swiss federal institute of technology. Here are the most widely read scientific, academic, student and institutional news items of the past 12 months, broken down by faculty and the institution.

Researchers from EPFL have developed a next-generation miniaturized brain-machine interface - 2024 EPFL / Lundi13 - CC-BY-SA 4.0

An entire brain-machine interface on a chip

— Researchers from EPFL have developed a next-generation miniaturized brain-machine interface capable of direct brain-to-text communication on tiny silicon chips.

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Four School of Engineering Professors Honored with IEEE Awards

— EPFL Professors Ionescu, Kis, Shoaran, and Lacour are recognized as leading scientists in their field by the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

© Alain Herzog

Uisub Shin receives Predoctoral Achievement Award

— Uisub Shin, a PhD student in the School of Engineering’s Integrated Neurotechnologies Laboratory, led by Mahsa Shoaran, has received a Predoctoral Achievement Award from the Solid-State Circuit Society (IEEE SSCS).

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A neuro-chip to manage brain disorders

— EPFL researchers have combined low-power chip design, machine learning algorithms, and soft implantable electrodes to produce a neural interface that can identify and suppress symptoms of various neurological disorders.

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Professors Mahsa Shoaran and Romain Fleury awarded ERC Starting Grant

— Prof. Mahsa Shoaran and Prof. Romain Fleury, from the Institute of Electrical and Micro Engineering (IEM) at the School of Engineering have been awarded Starting Grants from the European Research Council (ERC). Due to the non-association of Switzerland to Horizon Europe, their projects will be financed by Switzerland (SERI).

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[Oct 2021] Paper accepted to ISSCC 2022! Congratulations Uisub, Laxmeesha, Cong and Bingzhao!!
[Oct 2021] Paper accepted to NeurIPS 2021! Congratulations Bingzhao!!
 
 
[Oct 2021] Paper accepted to Current Opinion in Biotechnology
 
Our EPFL team was ranked 2nd among 808 teams in the Women in Data Science Datathon (WiDS21), Stanford, 2021: https://www.widsconference.org/datathon.html
 
New paper published in IEEE TBioCAS, 2021
 
New paper published in IEEE TCAS-II, 2021
 
Paper accepted to IEEE A-SSCC, 2021
 
Our work on mental fatigue prediction in Traumatic Brain Injury was published in Journal of Neural Engineering, 2021
 
Co-chaired the IEEE CICC Forum on “Human Brain-Machine Interface” together with Prof. Jerald Yoo from the National University of Singapore
 
Served as Award Chair and Associate Editor for the IEEE NER conference 2021
 
Serving as Guest Editor for Current Opinion in Biotechnology
 
Paper on transfer learning for seizure detection presented at the IEEE NER 2021
 
Invited paper on Edge AI for Brain Implants presented at the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS) 2021
 
Our recent work on ResOT: Resource-Efficient Oblique Trees for Neural Signal Classification has been accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS). Congratulations Bingzhao!
 
Our work on ML-based detection of tremor for Parkinson’s disease has been published in Clinical Neurophysiology. Congratulations Lin!
 
Received the Google Faculty Research Award 2019 for research in Machine Learning and Data Mining
 
I will chair the Emerging Technology Session at CICC 2020, on Energy-Efficient Wearable, Implantable, and IoT Devices
 
Our work on traumatic brain injury in collaboration with Weill Cornell Medicine has been accepted to ICASSP 2020
 
Our paper on “Cost-Efficient Classification for Neurological Disease Detection” has been accepted for a Lecture presentation at BioCAS 2019 in Nara, Japan. Congratulations Bingzhao!
 
We will present our work on ML-based motor decoding for minimally-invasive ECoG-BMIs at the SfN 2019 in Chicago and Asilomar 2019
 
Two papers accepted to the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers. Congratulations Lin and Bingzhao!
 
Our paper on migraine classification published in Cephalalgia journal is now available online
 
Paper accepted to NeuroImage. Congratulations Lin!
 
Paper accepted to NER’19
 
Poster presented at the International Symposium on Translational Research in Brain Stimulation 2018 in Shanghai
 
Two abstracts accepted to the IEEE Brain Initiative Workshop on Advanced NeuroTechnologies in San Diego, Nov 2018
 
I will be serving on the technical committee of the IEEE CICC’19. Submit your best papers!
 
I will be co-chairing a Special Session on “On-chip machine learning design & applications” at BioCAS 2018
 
Lin receives one of the three International Travel Awards to attend the Symposium on Translational Research in Brain Stimulation, Sep 2018
 
Paper accepted for presentation at BioCAS’18, and BioCAS’18 Travel Award for Lin Yao
 
Paper accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I) 2018
 
Paper accepted for publication in the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS) 2018
 
Paper accepted for presentation at ICASSP’18
 
Paper accepted for presentation at EMBC’18