Youssef SamlaliTeaching & PhD Courses Urban planning in the South PENS-307 This course is an introduction to the technical and conceptual tools essential to urban planning and evidence-based decision-making. These tools are introduced in the context of cities in the Global South, in order to understand the spatial and social dynamics behind urbanisation.
Emy AmsteinTeaching & PhD Courses UE H : Graphy AR-433 Experiment graphic tools to represent architecture. Exercise the skill of communicating via these tools, through repeated practice of eye/hand/brain connections; a reflection stemming from the theories of representation; and by searching for inventive solutions.
Emmanuel LantiTeaching & PhD Courses Parallel programming PHYS-743 Learn the concepts, tools and API's that are needed to debug, test, optimize and parallelize a scientific application on a cluster from an existing code or from scratch. Both OpenMP (shared memory) and MPI (distributed memory) paradigms are presented and experimented.
Mirko KovacExpertise
Aerial RoboticsEnvironmental SensingSustainability RoboticsPhysical Artificial Intelligence
Short Biography Prof. Mirko Kovač is Director of the Laboratory of Sustainability Robotics, jointly appointed at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) in Zürich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). He holds an Honorary Professorship at Imperial College London, where he previously served as Full Professor and founded the Aerial Robotics Laborator
Viktor KuncakViktor Kunčak joined EPFL in 2007, after receiving a PhD degree from MIT. Since then has been leading the Laboratory for Automated Reasoning and Analysis and supervised at least 12 completed PhD theses. His works on languages, algorithms and systems for verification and automated reasoning. He served as an initiator and one of the coordinators of a European network (COST action) in the area of automated reasoning, verification, and synthesis. In 2012 he received a 5-year single-investigator European Research Council (ERC) grant of 1.5M EUR. His invited talks include those at Lambda Days, Scala Days, NFM, LOPSTR, SYNT, ICALP, CSL, RV, VMCAI, and SMT. A paper on test generation he co-authored received an ACM SIGSOFT distinguished paper award at ICSE. A PLDI paper he co-authored was published in the Communications of the ACM as a Research Highlight article. His Google Scholar profile reports an over-approximate H-index of 38. He was an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) and served as a co-chair of conferences on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV), Formal Methods in Computer Aided Design (FMCAD), Workshop on Synthesis (SYNT), and Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI). At EPFL he teaches courses on functional and parallel programming, compilers, and verification. He has co-taught the MOOC "Parallel Programming" that was visited by over 100'000 learners and completed by thousands of students from all over the world.
Marc Samuel FriedliI trained in Biology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Geneva and completed a PhD in functional genomics. I have been working at EPFL for over 15 years, including throughout my involvement in the Health 2030 initiative (2018–2025), where I contributed to the development of strategic programs in precision medicine within the Unit of Precision Medicine (SV). My activities have consistently focused on technology, innovation, and education in personalized health, precision medicine, and genomics.This
Nicola BraghieriMission
The Art of Sciences laboratory (LAPIS), founded in 2013, investigates the processes of representing scientific thought through figurative tools offered by artistic disciplines. The laboratory's scientific mission is to investigate the role of implicit knowledge derived from analogical practices in the explicit automation of production processes. Therefore, research and teaching activity explores theoretical and practical implications of handcrafting specifically in the field of digital representatio
Pierre NorthExpertise
chemically peculiar stars, binary stars and distance determination, first generations of stars in the universe, Lyman-alpha emitting nebulae around quasars
Physics studies at University of Neuchatel and University of Geneva. PhD thesis at University of Geneva under the supervision of Prof. Bernard Hauck (University of Lausanne), and obtained in May 1984. My research activities have been first centred on the nature and evolution of chemically peculiar stars, and on the use of eclipsing binaries as
Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De VilleExpertise
Brain and spinal cord imaging, signal and image processing, network science, dynamic systems
Teaching & PhD PhD Students Alexandre Cionca, Chun Hei Michael Chan, Flavia Petruso, Bassam El Rawas, Nikolaos Molochidis, Christophe Pascal Jérémie Chênes, Fabrice Jean Guibert, Alessio Siviglia, Ekansh Sareen, Beatrice Lugli Past EPFL PhD Students Djano Kandaswamy, Fikret Isik Karahanoglu, Nora Leonardi, Zafer Dogan, Jeffrey Adam Kasten, Naghmeh Ghazaleh, Rotem Roza Kopel, Daniela Maria Zöller, Thomas