School of Computer and Communication Sciences

Our School is one of the main European centers for education and research in the field of computing.

We take pride in educating students at all levels in the exciting and world-changing fields of science and technology, performing research that drives forward the boundaries of knowledge, as well as fostering the commercial use of our research and the entrepreneurial spirit of our faculty and students.
The artifacts and software of the technology revolution have changed peoples’ lives in countless ways over the past half century. And, this revolution is not over! The intellectual accomplishments of computer science are diffusing into many other disciplines, changing the way that researchers, practitioners, and people in general see their world and conceive of solutions. We are proud and happy to be at the center of these revolutions.

MISSIONS

Education

We offer a bachelor program in Computer Science and one in Communications. We also offer four master’s programs: Computer Science, Communications, Data Science and Cyber Security.

Research

Research in IC spans a broad range of topics. Our faculty members are world leaders in many of these areas, and our PhD students go on to successful careers in academia and industry throughout Switzerland and the world.

Innovation

Our school works closely with industry, both in Switzerland and throughout the world, to lend our expertise to solve challenging problems and to bring new ideas from our labs into innovative products.

News

Marcel Salathé selected to lead national COVID-19 research program

Published:05.11.20 — Marcel Salathé, a professor of digital epidemiology at EPFL, will head the Steering Committee for Switzerland’s national research program on COVID-19. He was appointed this week by the National Research Council, which is part of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Salathé’s main role will be to provide scientific oversight to researchers working on 28 international projects and advise them on knowledge and technology transfer.

Deep Learning Algorithms Helping to Clear Space Junk from our Skies

Published:29.10.20 — EPFL researchers are at the forefront of developing some of the cutting-edge technology for the European Space Agency’s first mission to remove space debris from orbit.

GaToroid: revolutionizing the future of cancer treatment?

Published:23.10.20 — Joint CERN-EPFL doctoral research has led to the design of a new machine to deliver cutting edge hadron therapy to treat cancer.

All IC News

Samsung TV Plus launches Sofy.tv

Spotlight

Data 2025 v.2.0

Event

Open positions

Recruitement

Application endorsements to the SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship in IC

A successful applicant will be affiliated with an existing lab in IC. The IC application deadline is Nov. 25, 2020.

Applications are now open!

One single deadline for all students is November 29, 2020.

Lang/Baumann – Up #4

> Video of the perilous installation of the sculpture Up #4 The Swiss artist duo Lang/Baumann (L/B) was invited by the CDH-Culture to imagine and create a sculpture installed from June to December 2020 in a patio of…

17-06-202012-12-2020

With: Lang/Baumann, duo d’artistes suisses
Place and room: Patio extérieur du Rolex Learning Center
Category: Exhibitions

A utopian vision of futuristic cities

09-09-202014-12-2020

With: La Maison d’Ailleurs, musée de la science-fiction, de l’utopie et des voyages extraordinaires
Place and room: Hall du Rolex Learning Center
Category: Exhibitions