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?

Representation Quantum Entanglement © Enrique Sahagún / EPFL 2022

A key role for quantum entanglement

28.07.22EPFL

A method known as quantum key distribution has long held the promise of communication security not possible in conventional cryptography. For the first time, an international team of scientists, including researchers from EPFL, has demonstrated experimentally an approach to quantum key distribution based on high-quality quantum entanglement — offering much broader security guarantees than previous schemes.

Nominations of EPFL professors

15.07.22EPFL

The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of professors at EPFL. Professor Martin Hairer, winner of the Fields Medal in 2014, is appointed to the School of Basic Sciences.

Digital Chess Pieces © AdobeStock / EPFL 2022

Beating hackers at bug hunting

14.07.22EPFL

An innovative new collaboration between EPFL’s HexHive Laboratory and Oracle has developed automated, far-reaching technology in the ongoing battle between IT security managers and attackers, hoping to find bugs before the hackers do.