Solaiman Shokur2019 - now : Senior Scientist, Translational neuroengineering Laboratory, EPFL(Geneva)
Team leader: CHRONOS project, a multi-center European project that aims at developing the first chronically implanted prosthetic hand for transradial amputee patients with bidirectional communication capabilities. NCCR Robotics: Bi-directional control of supernumerary limbs.2014-2019: Research Coordinator, AASDAP (São Paulo, Brazil) Responsible for both the scientific production and the clinical protocol at the AASDAP neurorehabilitation laboratory.
2013-2014: Postdoctoral associate, Walk again project, Insituto Santos Dumond. (Natal, RN, Brazil)Head of the engineering team in charge of the system integration. 2010-2012: Visiting scientist, Nicolelis Lab (Duke University).
Development and validation of a virtual-reality based brain-machine interface for rhesus monkeys.
2007 – 2010: Teaching assistant, Laboratory of Robotics Systems (EPFL)
Arnaud BertschExpertise
MicrostereolithographiePhotopolymersMicrofabrication
Enseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Tao Zhang, Pol Torres Vila, Nicolas Bruno Minazzo A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Joan Teixidor, Clémentine Sophie Sarah Lipp, Nicolas Grégoire Maïno, Jiande Zhou, Jongeon Park Cours Advanced microfabrication practicals MICRO-373 Ce TP permet une formation approfondie sur les méthodes avancées de micro et nanofabrication dans un environnement de salle blanche pour des applications séle
Pierre DillenbourgAncien instituteur primaire, Pierre Dillenbourg obtient un master en Sciences de lEducation (Université de Mons, Belgique). Dans son projet de master en 1986, il est l'un des premiers au monde à appliquer les méthodes de 'machine learning' à l'éducation, afin de développer un 'self-improving teaching system'. Ceci lui permettra de débuter une thèse de doctorat en informatique à l'Université de Lancaster (UK) dans le domaine des applications éducatives de lintelligence artificielle. Il a été Maître dEnseignement et de Recherche à lUniversité de Genève. Il rejoint l'EPFL en 2012, où Il fut le directeur du Centre de Recherche sur l'Apprentissage, la formation et ses technologies(CRAFT), puis académique du Centre pour l'Education à l'Ere Digitale (CEDE) qui met en oeuvre la stratégie MOOC de l'EPFL (plus de 2 millions d'inscriptions). Il est actuellement professeur ordinaire en technologies de formation aux sein de la faculté Informatique et Communications et dirige laboratoire d'ergonomie éducative (CHILI). Depuis 2006, il a aussi été le directeur de DUAL-T, la 'leading house' dédiée aux technologies pour les systèmes de formation professionnelle duale. Il a fondé plusieurs start-ups dans l'éducation et rejoint plusieurs conseils d'administration. En 2017, Il a créé avec des collègues le 'Swiss EdTech Collider', un incubateur qui rassemble 80 start-ups dans le domaine des technologies éducatives. En 2018, ils ont lancé LEARN, le centre EPFL pour les sciences de l'apprentissage, lequel regroupe les initiatives locales en innovation éducative. Pierre est un 'inaugural fellow of the International Society of Learning Sciences'. Il est actuellement le Vice-Président Associé pour l'Education à l'EPFL.
Dario FloreanoProf. Dario Floreano is director of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). Since 2010, he is the founding director of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Robotics, a research program that brings together more than 20 labs across Switzerland. Prof. Floreano holds an M.A. in Vision, an M.S. in Neural Computation, and a PhD in Robotics. He has held research positions at Sony Computer Science Laboratory, at Caltech/JPL, and at Harvard University. His main research interests are Robotics and A.I. at the convergence of biology and engineering. Prof. Floreano made pioneering contributions to the fields of evolutionary robotics, aerial robotics, and soft robotics. He served in numerous advisory boards and committees, including the Future and Emerging Technologies division of the European Commission, the World Economic Forum Agenda Council, the International Society of Artificial Life, the International Neural Network Society, and in the editorial committee of several scientific journals. In addition, he helped spinning off two drone companies (senseFly.com and Flyability.com) and a non-for-profit portal on robotics and A.I. (RoboHub.org). Books
Manuale sulle Reti Neurali, il Mulino (in Italian), 1996 (first edition), 2006 (second edition)Evolutionary Robotics, MIT Press, 2000
Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence, MIT Press, 2008
Flying Insects and Robots, Springer Verlag, 2010
Auke IjspeertAuke Ijspeert is a full professor at the EPFL, and head of the Biorobotics Laboratory (BioRob). He has a B.Sc./M.Sc. in physics from the EPFL (1995), and a PhD in artificial intelligence from the University of Edinburgh (1999). He carried out postdocs at IDSIA and EPFL, and at the University of Southern California (USC). He then became a research assistant professor at USC, and an external collaborator at ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research institute) in Japan. In 2002, he came back to the EPFL as an SNF assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in October 2009 and to full professor in April 2016. His primary affiliation is with the Institute of Bioengineering, and secondary affiliation with the Institute of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests are at the intersection between robotics, computational neuroscience, nonlinear dynamical systems, and machine learning. He is interested in using numerical simulations and robots to get a better understanding of sensorimotor coordination in animals, and in using inspiration from biology to design novel types of robots and adaptive controllers. (see for instance Ijspeert et al Science 2007, Ijspeert Science 2014, and Nyakatura et al Nature 2019). He is also investigating how to assist people with limited mobility using exoskeletons and assistive furniture. He is regularly invited to give talks on these topics (e.g. TED talk given at TED Global Geneva, Dec 8 2015). With his colleagues, he has received paper awards at ICRA2002, CLAWAR2005, IEEE Humanoids 2007, IEEE ROMAN 2014, CLAWAR 2015, SAB2018, and CLAWAR 2019. He is an IEEE Fellow, member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science magazine, and associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics and for the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics. He has acted as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2009-2013) and for Soft Robotics (2018-2021). He was a guest editor for the Proceedings of IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Autonomous Robots, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, and Biological Cybernetics. He has been the organizer of 7 international conferences (BioADIT2004, SAB2004, AMAM2005, BioADIT2006, LATSIS2006, SSRR2016, AMAM2019), and a program committee member of over 50 conferences.
Pascal FuaPascal Fua received an engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, in 1984 and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Orsay in 1989. He then worked at SRI International and INRIA Sophia-Antipolis as a Computer Scientist. He joined EPFL in 1996 where he is now a Professor in the School of Computer and Communication Science and heads the Computer Vision Laboratory. His research interests include shape modeling and motion recovery from images, analysis of microscopy images, and Augmented Reality. His research interests include shape modeling and motion recovery from images, analysis of microscopy images, and machine learning. He has (co)authored over 300 publications in refereed journals and conferences. He is an IEEE Fellow and has been an Associate Editor of IEEE journal Transactions for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. He often serves as program committee member, area chair, and program chair of major vision conferences and has cofounded three spinoff companies (Pix4D, PlayfulVision, and NeuralConcept).
Maria del Carmen Sandi PerezEnseignement et PhD A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Kamila Markram, Thomas Brionne, Reto Bisaz, Gediminas Luksys, Basira Salehi, Marjan Timmer, Jorge Eduardo Castro Cifuentes, Vandana Veenit, Stamatina Tzanoulinou, Laura Lozano Montes, Sophie Elizabeth Walker, Aurélie Lattion, Alina Veronika Irene Strasser, Damien Huzard, Leyla Loued-Khenissi, Silvia Monari, Jun Huang, Arthur Barakat, Alessandro Chioino, Loredana Cumpana Cours Neuroscience: behavior and cognition BIO-483 Guider les étudiants dan
Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De VilleExpertise
Neuro-imagerie, traitement des signaux, sciences des réseaux, systèmes dynamiques
Enseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les 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 A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Djano Kandaswamy, Fikret Isik Karahanoglu, Nora Leonardi, Zafer Dogan, Jeffrey Adam Kasten, Naghmeh Ghazaleh, Rotem Roza Kopel, Daniela Maria Zölle
Olaf BlankeEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Haotian Yao, Neza Vehar, Gerardus Yannick Mijsters, Andreea-Maria Gui, Unnat Hemangbhai Antani, Angelica Di Domenico, Berenice Favre-Bulle A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Manuel Mercier, Bigna Lenggenhager, Pär Halje, Tej Tadi, Sebastian Dieguez Falcon, Oliver Alan Kannape, Lukas Heydrich, Nathan Evans, Danilo Jimenez Rezende, Steven Gale, Christian Pfeiffer, Mariia Kaliuzhna, Joachim Forget, Polona Pozeg, Petr Grivaz, Michel Akselrod, Marco Solcà, Jemina Fasola, Ev
Michael HerzogEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Sandrine Brikh, Melissa Mohamad Allouche, Ece Yatikçi, Melissa Faggella, Elsa Scialom, Marie Isabelle Holdsworth, Martina Morea, Pierre Merret, Sandali Nisansa Liyanagoonawardena A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Frank Scharnowski, Thomas Otto, Toni Saarela, Elisa Tartaglia, Bilge Sayim, Johannes Rüter, Marco Boi, Kristoffer Aberg, Yvonne Evelina Thunell, Mauro Manassi, Vitaly Chicherov, Lukasz Grzeczkowski, Marc Michael Lauffs, Ophélie Favrod, Janir Nuno Ramos da Cru
