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?

Smartphone and social media symbols © iStock / 2021 EPFL

Mass scale manipulation of Twitter Trends discovered

02.06.21EPFL

New EPFL research has found that almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake, a scale of manipulation previously unheard of. It also proves for the first time that many trends are created solely by bots due to a vulnerability in Twitter’s Trends algorithm.

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, George Theodorakopoulos, Reza Shokri © 2021 EPFL

“Our research on privacy and security was ahead of its time”

25.05.21EPFL

Ten years ago, as localization capabilities were becoming mainstream on smartphones, a group of EPFL researchers published a seminal paper at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, the most prestigious conference in the field. Their paper has just received the test of time award.

Critically ill patient waiting for emergency room care © 2021 Mary Anne Hartley / EPFL

"An incredible South African community hospital"

19.05.21EPFL

EPFL’s Dr Mary-Anne Hartley is currently volunteering as a medical doctor in a rural hospital in South Africa. Surrounded by bush and wildlife, it seems a long way from her work using the latest technologies in artificial intelligence to identify patterns of COVID in lung images, but that is exactly what she went there to do.