James Richard LarusExpertise
James Larus is a Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) at EPFL (école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). Before joining IC in October 2013, Larus was a researcher, manager, and director in Microsoft Research for over 16 years and an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.Larus has been an active contributor to numerous communities. He published over 100 papers (with 14 be
Theodora GiovanazziEducation Master of Architecture (MArch) / AA Diploma and the AA Final Examination (ARB/RIBA Part 2) | 2019 – 2021 Architectural Association School of Architecture, London AA Intermediate Examination (ARB/RIBA Part 1) | 2015 – 2018 Architectural Association School of Architecture, London Professionals experiences Architecture and Infrastructure Consultant 2021–2022 The World Bank, Washington DCTeaching Consultant 2021–2022 Architectural Association School of Arc
Jolanda DevalleJolanda Devalle is an architect and PhD candidate part of the Theory and Project of Domestic Space Laboratory led by Professor Pier Vittorio Aureli. Devalle holds and M.Arch from the Yale School of Architecture and a B.Arch from the University of Cambridge. Prior to her doctoral studies, she practiced architecture for several years at Selldorf Architects in New York. Her writings on architecture have appeared in publications including Log, The New York Review of Architecture (NYRA), Paprika! and Burning Far
Constantinos MarcouConstantinos Marcou (London, 1988) is a British Cypriot writer, architect, and urban designer based in Larnaca, Cyprus. He studied Architecture at the University of Cyprus, graduating with excellence, and later completed a Master’s degree in Urban Design at UCL, supported by a state scholarship, under the mentorship of Luca Galofaro and Davide Sacconi.After his studies, he joined a local architectural magazine as an editor, where he explored the syntactic and literary dimensions of architecture. There, he w
Katrin BeyerSince 2017 Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), EPFL. Head of the Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (EESD) Laboratory
2010-2017 Assistant Professor, EPFL.
2008-2010 Post-doctoral researcher, ETH Zürich.
2003-2007 Ph.D., Roseschool / Università di Pavia, Italy.
2001-2003 Ove Arup & Partners, Advanced Technology and Research Group, London.
2001 Diploma, Civil engineering, ETH Zürich.
Francis Joseph PflugerTeaching & PhD Courses Improve your group effectiveness MGT-477 During the leadership integration sessions, you will learn what are the conditions for a team to effectively work together. You will explore the stages of group development and team dynamics. You will analyze team performance through the lens of the BART model. Improve your personal effectiveness MGT-476 The aim of this integration week is to improve personal effectiveness by building self-awareness through activ
Stéphanie LacourStéphanie P. Lacour holds the Bertarelli Foundation Chair in Neuroprosthetic Technology in the School of Engineering at EPFL and leads the Laboratory for Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from INSA de Lyon, France, and completed postdoctoral research at Princeton University and the University of Cambridge. She is the recipient of the 2006 MIT TR35, a University Research Fellowship of the Royal Society, European Research Council ERC Starting and POC Grants, and a SNSF-ERC Consolidator Grant. She was elected a 2015 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Emmanuel Pierre Jean RavaletExpertise
Urban StudiesTransportation EconomyUrban sociology Daily mobilitiesUrban segregationLatin America / West Africa cities
Teaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Lorris Tabbone, Derek Pierre Christie
Pierre VandergheynstPierre Vandergheynst received the M.S. degree in physics and the Ph.D. degree in mathematical physics from the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. From 1998 to 2001, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Signal Processing Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. He was Assistant Professor at EPFL (2002-2007), where he is now a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer and Communication Sciences. As of 2015, Prof. Vandergheynst serves as EPFL’s Vice-Provost for Education. His research focuses on harmonic analysis, sparse approximations and mathematical data processing in general with applications covering signal, image and high dimensional data processing, computer vision, machine learning, data science and graph-based data processing. He was co-Editor-in-Chief of Signal Processing (2002-2006), Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2007-2011), the flagship journal of the signal processing community and currently serves as Associate Editor of Computer Vision and Image Understanding and SIAM Imaging Sciences. He has been on the Technical Committee of various conferences, serves on the steering committee of the SPARS workshop and was co-General Chairman of the EUSIPCO 2008 conference. Pierre Vandergheynst is the author or co-author of more than 70 journal papers, one monograph and several book chapters. He has received two IEEE best paper awards. Professor Vandergheynst is a laureate of the Apple 2007 ARTS award and of the 2009-2010 De Boelpaepe prize of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium.
Berend SmitBerend Smit received an MSc in Chemical Engineering in 1987 and an MSc in Physics both from the Technical University in Delft (the Netherlands). He received in 1990 cum laude PhD in Chemistry from Utrecht University (the Netherlands). He was a (senior) Research Physicists at Shell Research from 1988-1997, Professor of Computational Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) 1997-2007.
In 2004 Berend Smit was elected Director of the European Center of Atomic and Molecular Computations (CECAM) Lyon France. Since 2007 he is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at U.C. Berkeley and Faculty Chemist at Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Since 2014 he has been director of the Energy Center at EPFL.
Philip Neil GarnerTeaching & PhD PhD Students Yesmine Abdennadher, Mutian He, Elija Maria Vida Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Mohammadjavad Taghizadeh, Pierre-Edouard Jean Charles Honnet, Sibo Tong, Bastian Schnell, Alexandre Samuel Philippe Bittar, Louise Clothilde Coppieters De Gibson, Haolin Chen
Marc GruberAdministrative & Editorial Positions
2017- Vice President for Innovation at EPFL
2013- Deputy & Associate Editor: Academy of Management Journal (AMJ
2009-2016 Director of the MTE Master Program at EPFL
2000-2005 Manager of the LMU Entrepreneurship Center
Academic Positions
10/2005 - present
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Assistant Professor (2005-2008), Associate Professor (2008-2010), Full Professor (since 2011)
9/2004 -12/2004
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Visiting Scholar
9/2000 - 9/2005
University of Munich (LMU), Munich School of Management
Habilitand
Vice-Director of the Institute for Innovation Research, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship (Director: Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D.)
Manager of the ODEON Center for Entrepreneurship
1/1999 -12/1999
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Visiting Scholar
10/1995-12/1998
University of St. Gallen, HSG
Research Assistant, Ph.D. candidate
Degrees and Nominations
4/2005 University of Munich (LMU), Munich School of Management
Venia Legendi for Management (Habilitation)
10/2000 University of St. Gallen, HSG
Ph.D. in Management
10/1995 University of St. Gallen, HSG
Master in Business Administration (lic. oec. HSG)
Mihai Adrian IonescuAdrian M. Ionescu is Full Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland. He received the B.S./M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania and the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France, in 1989 and 1997, respectively. He has held staff and/or visiting positions at LETI-CEA, Grenoble, France and INP Grenoble, France and Stanford University, USA, in 1998 and 1999. Dr. Ionescu has published more than 600 articles in international journals and conferences. He received many Best Paper Awards in international conferences, the Annual Award of the Technical Section of the Romanian Academy of Sciences in 1994 and the Blondel Medal in 2009 for contributions to the progress in engineering sciences in the domain of electronics. He is the 2013 recipient of the IBM Faculty Award in Engineering. He served the IEDM and VLSI conference technical committees and was the Technical Program Committee (Co)Chair of ESSDERC in 2006 and 2013. He is a member of the SATW. He is director of the Laboratory of Micro/Nanoelectronic Devices (NANOLAB).
Andreas PautzTeaching & PhD PhD Students Sofia Portolan, Michel Saliba, Bishal Torrente, Alexis Paul Boris Claude Dupont-Bembinoff, Cynthia Camila Güttlein Past EPFL PhD Students Ting Zhu, Vladimir Vladimirov Brankov, Boris Aviv Hombourger, Damar Canggih Wicaksono, Petra Mala, Adolfo Rais, Valentyn Bykov, Daniel Jerôme Siefman, Evgeny Nikitin, Dionysios Chionis, Oskari Ville Pakari, Friederike Bostelmann, Jiani Gao, Efstathios Vlassopoulos, Alessandro Scolaro, Stefan Radman, Alexander Aures, Lubomír Bures, Ahmed Salah
Pablo Antolin SanchezTeaching & PhD PhD Students Philipp Christoph Weder, Davor Dobrota Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Ondine Chanon Courses Analysis III MATH-202(c) The course studies the fundamental concepts of vector analysis and Fourier-Laplace analysis with a view to their use in solving multidisciplinary problems in scientific engineering. Analysis III (for IC) MATH-203(d) The course studies the fundamental concepts of vector analysis and Fourier-Laplace analysis with a view to thei
