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.

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.

What’s new?

James Larus and Rüdiger Urbanke © A. Herzog / EPFL 2021

Welcome Rüdiger Urbanke as new IC School Dean!

24.09.21EPFL

At a Dean handover ceremony last night Professor Rüdiger Urbanke, an expert in powerful channel coding methods, has taken the helm of EPFL’s School of Computer and Communications Sciences (IC) from Professor James Larus, after an eight-year tenure.

This technology lets us simulate 'what ifs'

22.09.21EPFL

In this interview, Frédéric Kaplan – the head of EPFL’s Digital Humanities Laboratory – talks with us about the current focus of his work: digital twins and the so-called “mirror world,” or the virtualization of reality.

New Bachelor’s students are up 4% for the 2021-2022 school year at EPFL. © Alain Herzog/EPFL

EPFL's fall semester gets off to an (almost) normal start

21.09.21EPFL community

EPFL students are back in the classroom today, either in person or remotely, thanks to Switzerland’s new public-health measures and greater flexibility in the way classes are run.