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?

Will artificial intelligence replace humans?

19.01.23EPFL

ChatGPT, an AI chatbot, is taking the planet by storm. It understands complex topics like physics and maths and can generate text for everything from blog posts and song lyrics to university exam papers. Will it change everything? And how will humans keep control of this exponentially advancing technology?

SNSF-funded project enhances THG microscopy for materials imaging

18.01.23Research

A cross-disciplinary project involving three EPFL units – the Hub for Advanced Image Reconstruction, the Galatea Lab and the AudioVisual Communications Laboratory (LCAV) – has received a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) to study methods for speeding image capture in non-linear optical microscopy. Their work will be used to examine nanostructures in transparent materials.

Young IC Researcher wins prestigious SNSF transition grant

23.12.22EPFL

Yanina Shkel works on a branch of data science called information theory and has received almost 1.8 million CHF to investigate a technique called “Functional Representation Lemma”.

Spotlight

Assistant Professor Antoine Bosselut, a specialist in artificial intelligence and head of the Natural Language Processing Lab, was on the RTS set yesterday to talk about ChatGPT.

Event

30.01.23 > 03.02.23

Activities – International Day of Women and Girls in Science

UNIGE’s Scienscope, EPFL, LAPP and CERN offer schools the opportunity to invite women scientists or engineers to talk to students about their professions (in mixed classes).