College of Management of Technology

Prof. Gaétan de Rassenfosse promoted to Associate Professor

Published:04.05.22 — The College of Management of Technology is proud to count Prof. de Rassenfosse as a new member of its tenured professors. He tells us about his journey from Assistant Professor to his promotion by the ETH board in March 2022 as Associate Professor.

EPFL EMBA participants connecting with EPFL labs for a Digital day

Published:28.04.22 — Our EPFL EMBA participants experienced a special Digital Day on campus, changing from their usual classroom learning. They spent the day visiting labs and learning about robotics and Internet of Things (IoT) with Prof. Auke Ijspeert, Prof. David Atienza and the teams of their respective labs.

Is The 25 Billion Dollar Eigenvector Robust Enough?

Published:25.04.22 — Dr. Anna Timonina-Farkas & Prof. Ralf Seifert have a article forthcoming in the prestigious "Operations Research", an FT 50 Journal.

New Method of Machine Learning with Interpretability Constraints

Published:05.04.22 — Dr. Michael Mark and Prof. Thomas Weber’s most recent paper, on “Optimal Recovery of Unsecured Debt via Interpretable Machine Learning,” published in Machine Learning with Applications, develops a method to incorporate domain knowledge directly into a reinforcement-learning agent. The new tool is tested on the problem of credit collections, for which an optimal solution is known, so that the augmented learning performance can be compared to an established benchmark. A key observation is that interpretability in the form of monotonicity constraints may be imposed without significant loss in performance. The paper was also co-authored with Prof. Naveed Chehrazi (Olin Business School) and Huanxi Liu who participated in an Excellence Research Internship at EPFL, hosted by the Chair of Operations, Economics and Strategy, while pursuing his bachelor’s degree at UC San Diego.