Martin VetterliMartin Vetterli a été nommé Président de l'École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) par le Conseil fédéral à l’issue d’un processus de sélection mené par le Conseil des EPF - qui l'a désigné à l'unanimité.
Né à Soleure le 4 octobre 1957, Martin Vetterli a suivi sa scolarité et effectué sa maturité dans le canton de Neuchâtel. Ingénieur en génie électrique de l’ETHZ (1981), diplômé de l’Université de Stanford (1982) et docteur en sciences de l’EPFL (1986), Martin Vetterli a enseigné à Columbia University comme professeur assistant puis associé. Il a ensuite été nommé professeur ordinaire au département du génie électrique et des sciences de l’informatique de l’Université de Berkeley, avant de revenir à l’EPFL en tant que professeur ordinaire à l’âge de 38 ans. Il a également enseigné à l’ETHZ et à l’Université de Stanford.
Ses activités de recherche centrées sur le génie électrique, les sciences de l’informatique et les mathématiques appliquées lui ont valu de nombreuses récompenses nationales et internationales, parmi lesquelles le Prix Latsis National, en 1996. Il est Fellow de l’Association for Computing Machinery et de l'Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers et membre de la National Academy of Engineering (NAE) notamment. Martin Vetterli a publié plus de 170 articles et trois ouvrages de référence.
Ses travaux sur la théorie des ondelettes, utilisées dans le traitement du signal, sont reconnus par ses pairs comme étant d’une portée majeure, et ses domaines de prédilection, comme la compression des images et vidéos ou les systèmes de communication auto-organisés, sont au cœur du développement des nouvelles technologies de l’information. En tant que directeur fondateur du Pôle de Recherche National Systèmes mobiles d’information et de communication, le professeur Vetterli est un fervent défenseur de la recherche transdisciplinaire.
Martin Vetterli connaît l’EPFL de l’intérieur. Alumnus de l’Ecole, il y enseigne depuis 1995, a été le vice-président chargé des relations internationales puis des affaires institutionnelles de l’Ecole entre 2004 à 2011, et doyen de la Faculté Informatique et Communication en 2011 et 2012. En parallèle à sa fonction de président du Conseil national de la recherche du Fonds national suisse qu’il a occupé de 2013 à 2016, il dirige le Laboratoire de Communications Audiovisuelles (LCAV) de l’EPFL depuis 1995.
Martin Vetterli a accompagné plus de 60 doctorants en Suisse et aux Etats-Unis pendant leur thèse et se fait un point d’honneur de suivre l’évolution de leur parcours au plus haut niveau, académique ou dans le monde entrepreneurial.
L’ingénieur est l’auteur d’une cinquantaine de brevets qui ont conduit à la création de plusieurs startups issues de son laboratoire, comme Dartfish ou Illusonic, ainsi qu’à des transferts de technologie par le biais de vente de brevets (Qualcomm). Il encourage activement les jeunes chercheurs à poursuivre ces efforts et commercialiser les résultats de leurs travaux.
Valentin SimeonovResearchComplete publication list Valentin SimeonovCollaborateur scientifique- EPFL ENAC EFLUMList of publicationsRefereed 1. V. Mitev, V. Simeonov, and I. Grigorov, "Model experiment in measuring the temperature and concentration of water vapours in air by spontaneous Raman scattering", Bulg. J. Phys. 9, No 5, pp. 549-558, (1982)2. V. Mitev, V. Simeonov, and I. Grigorov, ”Atmospheric gases temperature measurements by pure rotational Raman scattering”, Russian Journal of Applied Spectroscopy, 39,
Wolf Hendrik HuwaldDr. Hendrik Huwald is a scientist at the Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences (CRYOS) and a lecturer at the Environmental Sciences and Engineering Section (SSIE) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). He completed his PhD in 2003 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ), developing a numerical model for sea ice and studying energy transfer processes in the Arctic. Between 2005 and 2012 he was a post-doctoral fellow and scientist at the Laboratory of Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology (EFLUM) of EPFL working on Alpine snow-atmosphere interaction, and energy balance-related research mainly in mountain regions. During this time, he designed, led and participated in numerous large field experiments in different environments. In 2013 he joined the newly founded CRYOS laboratory where he conducted research in the domains of snow science, hydrology, boundary layer meteorology and environmental sensing. He has extensive experience with project management both on national and international level.
Jan SkaloudExpertise
Satellite positioning, inertial and integrated navigation Sensor orientation and calibration, attitude determination Mobile mapping, airborne laser scanning Adjustment methods, Kalman Filtering
Mission
Teaching in 3 EPFL sections and 2 faculties, director of ESO lab.
Books / Monographs J. Skaloud and M. Cramer, «Data Capture,» in GIS Handbook, W. Kresse and D. Danko, Eds. Springer, 2011. D. Lichti and J. Skaloud, «Registration and Calibration,» in Airborne and terrestrial laser scanning, H.-G. Ma
Ian SmithPhD Université de Cambridge, 1982 Interêts 1 Contrôle actif de la forme des structures pour améliorer leur aptitude au service et leur déploiement 2 Structures biomimétiques (apprentissage, auto-diagnostic, auto-réparation) 3 Gestion de l'infrastructure par l'identification structurale 4 Applications avancées de l'informatique Plus de détails, voir https://www.epfl.ch/labs/imac/fr/recherche/smith_ian_fr/ Stephan BrunnerEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Hugo Jean Elie Chkroun, Nicole Vadot, Oraz Anuaruly, Haomin Sun, Isabel Muzio, Fabien Nicolas Jeanquartier A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Ajay Chandrarajan Jayalekshmi, Arnas Volcokas A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Xavier Lapillonne, Thibaut Vernay, Julien Stanislas Pierre Dominski, Gabriele Merlo, Emmanuel Lanti, Noé Ohana, Moahan Murugappan Cours Plasma instabilities PHYS-736 To complete the theoretical knowledge acquired before the graduate studi
Roberto CastelloRoberto Castello is a senior scientist and group leader at the EPFL Laboratory of Solar Energy and Building Physics. Physicist by training, he has extensive experience in collecting, classifying and interpreting large datasets using advanced data mining techniques and statistical methods. He received his MSc (2007) in Particle Physics and PhD (2010) in Physics and Astrophysics from the University of Torino. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Belgian National Research Fund (2011-2014) and at the CERN Experimental Physics Department (2015-2017) as a research fellow and data scientist. He is primary author of more than 20 peer-reviewed publications and he presented at major international conferences in the high energy physics domain.
In 2018 he joined the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB) to work on data mining and Machine Learning techniques for the built environment and renewable energy. His main research interests are: spatio-temporal modeling of renewable energy potential, energy consumption forecasting techniques, anomaly detection, and computer vision techniques for automated classification in the built environment.
He leads the group of Urban Data Mining, Intelligence and Simulation at LESO-PB and he is a member of the NRP75 Big Data project (HyEnergy) of the Swiss National Science Foundation. He is a member of the Swiss Competence Centre for Energy Research (SCCER) and deputy leader of the working group on Leveraging Ubiquitous Energy Data. He has served as a scientific committee member, workshop organizer and speaker at international conferences (ICAE 2020, Applied Machine Learning Days 2019 and 2020, CISBAT 2019 and 2021 and SDS2020).
Since 2017 he is member of the Geneva 2030 Ecosystem network, promoting the United Nations agenda towards the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Federico AmatoI have an MSc in Engineering and a Ph.D. in Sustainable Development and Innovation Engineering. After a three-year Postdoc in Environmental Data Mining, in 2021 I joined the Swiss Data Science Centre, a joint venture between the polytechnical schools of Lausanne (EPFL) and Zurich (ETH) having as mission the acceleration of the digital transformation of the academic community and the industrial sector, putting to work Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and facilitating the multidisciplinary exchange of data and knowledge.
Over the years I worked on the development of methodological tools to mine and model big spatiotemporal datasets. I extensively applied such methods to study the interaction between the spatial and temporal components of environmental and geographical phenomena, and their consequences in terms of spatial planning and urban geography. My academic activity has focused on the analysis of land-use dynamics and their relationship with climate, pollution, natural hazards, and other social/economic phenomena. I have deep competencies in applied statistics, machine learning, geocomputation, spatial statistics, urban modeling, and remote sensing. I am also an expert in European Project development and implementation.
Giovanni De CesareExpertise
Simulation numérique et modélisation physique d'ouvrages et aménagements hydrauliques; sédimentation des réservoirs et courants de turbidité; gestion de l'alluvionnement des retenues; mesure des écoulements par ulstrason à effet Doppler; travaux d'aménagement fluvial et revitalisation; génie biologique; écomorphologie fluviale; écoulements transitoires rapides dans les conduite sous pression; transfer de technologie et expertise en hydraulique appliquée, constructions et infrastructures hydrauliqu
Julia SchmaleEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Berkay Dönmez, Yolanda Temel, Nora Bergner, Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte, Henrik Tasman Helmig, Sristi Shamarthi Das A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Ivo Fabio Beck, Roman Pohorsky Cours Physics and chemistry of the atmosphere ENV-320 Ce cours est une introduction aux phénomènes physiques et chimiques gouvernant la dynamique atmosphérique à petite et grande échelle. Le cours est structuré afin de donner une compréhension en profondeur de notre atmos
Olivier SauterEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Cassandre Ekta Contré, Antonia Frank, Peizheng Zhang, Jean-Pierre Thomas Svantner, Cristina Venturini, Cosmas Quirin Lorenz Heiss, Daniel Perales Rios, Viacheslav Bochkarev, Jan Jakub Frybes, Paul Véronique Guillaume Devianne A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Clemente Angioni, Petri Nikkola, Alberto Bottino, Andrei Martynov, Emiliano Fable, Costanza Zucca, Federico Felici, Dávid Wágner, Doohyun Kim, Anna Teplukhina, Mengdi Kong, Francesco Carpanese, Simon Van Mulders,
Jean-François MolinariProfessor J.F. Molinari is the director of the Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory (http://lsms.epfl.ch) at EPFL, Switzerland. He holds an appointment in the Civil Engineering institute, which he directed from 2013 to 2017, and a joint appointment in the Materials Science institute. He started his tenure at EPFL in 2007, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2012. He is currently an elected member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation in Division 2 (Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences), and co editor in chief of the journal Mechanics of Materials. J.F. Molinari graduated from Caltech, USA, in 2001, with a M.S. and Ph.D. in Aeronautics. He held professorships in several countries besides Switzerland, including the United States with a position in Mechanical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University (2000-2006), and France at Ecole Normale Supérieure Cachan in Mechanics (2005-2007), as well as a Teaching Associate position at the Ecole Polytechnique de Paris (2006-2009). The work conducted by Prof. Molinari and his collaborators takes place at the frontier between traditional disciplines and covers several length scales from atomistic to macroscopic scales. Over the years, Professor Molinari and his group have been developing novel multiscale approaches for a seamless coupling across scales. The activities of the laboratory span the domains of damage mechanics of materials and structures, nano- and microstructural mechanical properties, and tribology. Alexandre Massoud AlahiAlexandre Alahi is currently an Assistant Professor at EPFL. He spent five years at Stanford University as a Post-doc and Research Scientist after obtaining his Ph.D. from EPFL. His research enables machines to perceive the world and make decisions in the context of transportation problems and smart environments. He has worked on the theoretical challenges and practical applications of socially-aware Artificial Intelligence, i.e., systems equipped with perception and social intelligence. He was awarded the Swiss NSF early and advanced researcher grants for his work on predicting human social behavior. He won the CVPR Open Source Award (2012) for his work on Retina-inspired image descriptors, and the ICDSC Challenge Prize (2009) for his sparsity-driven algorithm that has tracked more than 100 million pedestrians to date. His research has been covered internationally by BBC, abc, PBS, Euronews, Wall street journal, and other national news outlets around the world. Alexandre has also co-founded multiple startups such as Visiosafe, and won several startup competitions. He was elected as one of the Top 20 Swiss Venture leaders in 2010.
Natacha PascheDr. Natacha Tofield Pasche est une limnologiste, qui s'intéresse particulièrement aux processus biogeochimiques dans les lacs. Ingénieure en Environnement de l'EPFL, elle a réalisé son doctorat sur le cycle des nutriments et la production de méthane au lac Kivu . Au Rwanda de 2009 à 2013, elle a créé un programme de surveillance pour limiter les impacts potentiels de l'extraction du méthane dans le lac Kivu. Depuis le septembre 2013, elle est l'Adjointe du Directeur du Centre de Limnologie à l'EPFL. Elle a coordonné la science, la logistique des campagnes de mesures et les finances de deux larges programmes de recherche. Le premier visait à comprendre la vie sous la glace lacustre face au réchauffement climatique, et le deuxième avait pour but de cartographier la qualité des eaux des lacs avec des images aériennes novatrices. En tant que cheffe de projet, elle a piloté la création de la plateforme LéXPLORE pour des mesures innovantes sur le Léman et coordonne les différents projets de recherche.
