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?

Assistant Professor Antoine Bosselut © Alain Herzog / EPFL 2021

Machines don't understand being wet

26.11.21EPFL

Assistant Professor Antoine Bosselut, who joined EPFL in September, was recently named one of Forbes Magazine’s prestigious ‘30 under 30 Europe in Science and Healthcare’ for his research in Natural Language Processing on whether AI systems learn common sense from language?

The new joint doctoral programme is especially aimed at Master’s graduates from the STEM fields. © Alain Herzog 2021 EPFL

EPFL and ETH Zurich launch their first joint doctoral programme

26.11.21EPFL

Switzerland’s two federal institutes of technology have teamed up to offer a new joint doctoral programme in the learning sciences. It aims to train experts to draw on their technological and scientific knowledge in the interests of forwarding the research, teaching and learning.

EPFL Tech Launchpad award two new Ignition grant

25.11.21Research

We are proud to announce that Emissium and Consulto, have each been awarded a CHF 30,000 Ignition grant as part of EPFL’s Tech Launchpad – a leading incubator dedicated to supporting groundbreaking and innovative startups.