Mahmut Selman SakarExpertise
robotics, mechanobiology, microtechnology, smart materials, biomedical devices
Teaching & PhD PhD Students Lorenzo Francesco John Noseda, Nikita Norkin, Elif Ezgi Inan, Houman Javaheri, Mehdi Ali Gadiri, Julian Leon Raub, Junsun Hwang Past EPFL PhD Students Erik Mailand, Raquel Filipa Penacho Parreira, Murat Kaynak, Lucio Pancaldi-Giubbini, Fazil Emre Uslu, Matthias Rüegg, Ece Özelçi, Emilie Vuille-Dit-Bille Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Laura Joan Hermans, Sourabh Monnappa Kuppanda Jafri
Stefana ParaschoTeaching & PhD PhD Students Jingwen Wang, Gabriel Vallat, Maxence Grangeot, Eleni Maria Skevaki, Wenqian Yang, Megi Sinani Courses Capitalizing on Uncertainty AR-809 SUMMER SCHOOL - Capitalizing on Uncertainty is a 6-day Summer school exploring uncertainty as a productive resource in design and fabrication through lectures, hands-on experiments, and the collaborative design and construction of a full-scale structure in a human-robot fabrication setting. Digital design and making: A criti
Robert WestRobert West is a tenure-track assistant professor of computer science at EPFL, where he heads the Data Science Lab. In his research, he develops and applies techniques in machine learning, computational social science, natural language processing, social network analysis, and data mining. Bob also collaborates closely with the Wikimedia Foundation, in his role as a Wikimedia Research Fellow. Bob’s work has won several awards, including best/outstanding paper awards at ICWSM’21, ICWSM’19, and WWW’13, a best-paper runner-up award at WWW’16, a Google Faculty Research Award, a Facebook Research Award, a Hewlett-Packard Graduate Fellowship, and a Facebook Graduate Fellowship. He is actively involved in the research community, e.g., as an Associate Editor of ICWSM and EPJ Data Science and as a co-founder of the Wiki Workshop (held at WWW and ICWSM) and the Applied Machine Learning Days. Bob received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University, his MSc from McGill University, Canada, and his undergraduate degree from Technische Universität München, Germany.[Last updated: 25 Aug 2021]
Andres Osorio SalazarExpertise
Robotics, advanced actuator design, soft actuators, sensor design, embedded systems, human-machine interface architecture, electronic-less control, mechanism design, additive and traditional manufacturing, industrial automation, process control, and fluid robotics.
Current Work
Smart Footwear for Diabetic Foot Care and Ulcer PreventionEvery 20 seconds, a person with diabetes has to face an amputation somewhere in the world. The main risk factor is high plantar pressure combined with foot nephropat
Tanja Christina Käser JacoberTanja Käser is an assistant professor at the EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) and head of the D-VET laboratory. Her research lies at the intersection of machine learning, data mining, and education. She is particularly interested in creating accurate models of human behavior and learning.Prior to joining EPFL, Tanja Käser was a senior data scientist with the Swiss Data Science Center at ETH Zurich. Before that, she was a postdoctoral researcher with the AAALab at the Graduate School of Education of Stanford University.
Tanja Käser received her PhD degree from the Computer Science Department of ETH Zurich. In her dissertation, completed at the Computer Graphics Laboratory, she focused on user modeling and data mining in education, which was honored with the Fritz Kutter Award 2015.
Christian GiangChristian Giang is a researcher at the Machine Learning for Education Laboratory (ML4ED), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Laboratory for Technology and Media in Education, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). He received the PhD degree in Robotics from EPFL and the BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from ETH Zürich. His research focuses on the use of educational technologies in formal education.
Yegor PiskarevExpertise
Medical Device Engineering & Development: I have hands-on experience in the complete lifecycle of medical device development, from concept to preclinical validation and regulatory compliance. I led the design and development of three cardiac ablation catheters, which are class III medical devices, meeting strict FDA and MDR/MDD requirements. Currently, I am overseeing the transition of an ENT medical device from proof-of-concept to a commercial product, including establishing a quality management
Jauwairia NasirI am a doctoral candidate and a Marie Curie ITN Fellow in the field of Robotics at Computer-Human Interaction for Learning and Instruction Lab at EPFL where I currently work towards building Human-Robot Interaction technologies, leveraging AI, to help improve learning environments for kids. I did my Masters in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from KAIST, South Korea and my Bachelors in Electronics Engineering from School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (SEECS) NUST in Pakistan. During my Bachelors and Masters degrees, my research revolved around path planning algorithms for mobile robots and autonomous household robots for elderly, respectively.As the Women in AI (WAI) Education Lead in Switzerland, I organize WAI educational activities in the country such as WaiCAMPs and am also a part of WAI’s Global Education Task Force. I am passionate about causes such as safe and unbiased AI, education for all, and discrimination free society.
Joelyn de LimaExpertise
Education ResearchPedagogical Professional DevelopmentInformal EducationAcademic communities
Joelyn de Lima is a scientist, educational developer, and researcher whose work bridges the natural sciences, higher education, and inclusive practice. Originally trained in the biological sciences, her early research focused on students’ conceptual and mechanistic understanding of evolution. She later transitioned into discipline-based education research and pedagogical development, bringing together scie
Iris Capdevila TristanAt EPFLCoordinator of the s’ÉPanouir FLourish project, aimed at developing EPFL’s educational programs, and chair of Work Package 4, dedicated to developing teaching and teaching careers. More information here: https://go.epfl.ch/flourishPedagogical advisor at the School of Engineering (STI) between 2020 and 2025, supporting the teachers and sections: GM, MT, MX and NX.General Secretary of the Swiss Faculty Development Network (SFDN), a national network committed to strengthening teaching and learning capac Ali H. SayedAli H. Sayed is Dean of Engineering at EPFL, Switzerland, where he also leads the Adaptive Systems Laboratory. He has also served as Distinguished Professor and Chairman of Electrical Engineering at UCLA. He is recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher and is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He is also a member of the World Academy of Sciences and served as President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society during 2018 and 2019.
Dr. Sayed is an author/co-author of over 570 scholarly publications and six books. His research involves several areas
including adaptation and learning theories, data and network sciences, statistical inference, and multiagent systems.
His work has been recognized with several major awards including the 2022 IEEE Fourier Award, the 2020 Norbert Wiener Society Award and the 2015 Education Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the 2014 Papoulis Award from the European Association for Signal Processing, the 2013 Meritorious Service Award and the 2012 Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the 2005 Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education, the 2005 Distinguished Lecturer from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the 2003 Kuwait Prize, and the 1996 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize. His publications have been awarded several Best Paper Awards from the IEEE (2002, 2005, 2012, 2014) and EURASIP (2015). He is a Fellow of IEEE, EURASIP, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); the publisher of the journal Science.
