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?

The BamX Pavilion as showcased in the SG Hall. © EPFL / Emmanuel Barraud

Age-old technique enhanced by computer modeling

22.09.22Research

A joint project between EPFL’s Geometric Computing Laboratory and a British artist has resulted in an impressive structure made out of woven bamboo. It will be on display at the SG building on EPFL’s Lausanne campus from 22 to 29 September.

Thanks to its new thermal power plant, the EPFL site in Lausanne is a zero-oil campus, virtually gas-free and mostly renewable. ©Alain Herzog/EPFL

EPFL takes another step towards carbon neutrality

08.09.22EPFL

On 8 September 2022, EPFL inaugurated its new heating plant, which has the capacity to heat and cool the Lausanne campus solely by drawing water from Lake Geneva and recovering excess heat from a connected data center. The ceremony was attended by local political leaders including Vassilis Venizelos, who is a Vaud Canton councilor and the head of the Canton’s department of youth, the environment and security.

Summer@EPFL students presenting their projects © Murielle Gerber / EPFL 2022

Empowering young people on International Youth Day

12.08.22EPFL

Held every year on August 12, International Youth Day provides a platform for young people to focus on how they will develop innovative and entrepreneurial solutions for the future. Two EPFL summer programs are helping to do this in the field of computer and communication science.

Spotlight

In recognition of his ‘consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory’, the IEEE Information Theory Society has announced IC Dean, Professor Rüdiger Urbanke, the recipient of the 2023 Claude E. Shannon award.