School of Computer and Communication Sciences

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

We take pride in educating students at all levels in the exciting and world-changing science and technology of ICT, performing research that drives forward the boundaries of knowledge in these fields, 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. IC is 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 three master’s programs: Computer Science, Communications, and Data Science. Starting Fall 2019, we will add an additional master in 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

EPFL aims to build trust in fintechs

Published:08.11.19 — A new research program will combine the specialist knowledge of the Swiss Finance Institute @ EPFL with insights from the School’s data scientists and digital trust experts.

Mathieu Salzmann receives CDH courtesy appointment

Published:08.11.19 — Mathieu Salzmann, a scientific collaborator in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC), has been granted a four-year courtesy appointment in the College of Humanities (CDH).

An anti-collision system for general aviation

Published:28.10.19 — This video (in French with English subtitles) from the EPFL Vice Presidency for Innovation (VPI) describes the technology of FLARM AG, a Swiss company that collaborates with IC Professor Pascal Fua and his Computer Vision Lab to produce automatic anti-collision systems for aircraft.

All IC News

EPFL aims to build trust in fintechs

Spotlight

Alumni reunion

Event

Open Faculty Positions

Recruitment

Infinity Room 2 - ArtLab exhibition

2019-09-13 2020-01-26

With: Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+)
Place and room: ArtLab pavillon B
Category: Cultural events

Concours Alkindi pour les 9-11S: inscriptions ouvertes !

2019-10-29 2019-12-17

Category: Sciences Activities for Youth

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2019 call for EPFL Data Champions

2019-11-06 2019-11-25

With: EPFL Library Research Data Team
Place and room: CO 121
Category: Call for proposal

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150 ans du tableau périodique des éléments

2019-11-07 2019-12-31

Place and room: RLC
Category: Exhibitions

Just finished [ Volkswagen Stiftung – Original – isn’t it? | Research Funding ]

2019-11-13

Category: Call for proposal

The Digital Turn in Historical Sociolinguistics - Talk by Prof. Anita Auer, UNIL

2019-11-13 16:00:00 18:00:00

With: Prof. Anita Auer
Place and room: BC 420
Category: Conferences - Seminars

Marveling at materials through in-silico lenses

2019-11-13 16:15:00 17:15:00

With: Giulia Galli Liew Family professor of Electronic Structure and Simulations in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering; Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago; Director the Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials, Argonne National Laboratory.
Place and room: RLC E1 240
Category: Conferences - Seminars