Volkan CevherVolkan Cevher received the B.Sc. (valedictorian) in electrical engineering from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, in 1999 and the Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA in 2005. He was a Research Scientist with the University of Maryland, College Park from 2006-2007 and also with Rice University in Houston, TX, from 2008-2009. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne and a Faculty Fellow in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rice University. His research interests include machine learning, signal processing theory, optimization theory and methods, and information theory. Dr. Cevher is an ELLIS fellow and was the recipient of the Google Faculty Research award in 2018, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 2016, a Best Paper Award at CAMSAP in 2015, a Best Paper Award at SPARS in 2009, and an ERC CG in 2016 as well as an ERC StG in 2011.
Jean-Paul Richard KneibEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Oliver Pineda Suarez, Robert Daniel Kincaid, Ethan Daniel Tregidga, Belén Yu Irureta-Goyena Chang, Elisabeth Andréa Cécile Rachith, Shengyu He, Aurélien Thomas Mathieu Verdier, Timour Jestin A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Markus Rexroth, Luzius Gregor Kronig, Christoph Ernst René Schäfer, Vasileios Angelopoulos, Michaël Juillard, Amélie Tamone, Andrei Variu, Yoan Rappaz, Anne-Marlene Rüede, Jiaxi Yu, Daniel Felipe Forero Sanchez, Beauchesne Benjamin Emmanuel Nicola
Silvestro MiceraEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Johannes Sebastiaan Nieuwenhuis, Mouhamed Zorkot, Angela Braccia, Jonathan Muheim, Xiangyu Xu A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Elvira Pirondini, Andrea Crema, Marco Bonizzato, Sophie Marie Marthe Wurth, Edoardo D'Anna, Emanuele Formento, Jenifer Cléa Miehlbradt, Flavio Raschella, Nawal Kinany, Théo Lemaire, Marion Aimée Geneviève Badi-Dubois, Tristan Jean Robin Barjavel, Vincent Alexandre Mendez, Outman Akouissi, Giulia Dominijanni, Simone Romeni, Franklin Leong, Ele
Jamie PaikProf. Jamie Paik is founder and director of the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab (RRL) of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and a core member of Swiss NCCR robotics group. The RRL leverages expertise in multi-material fabrication and smart material actuation for novel robot designs. She received her PhD in Seoul National University on designing humanoid arm and a hand while being sponsored by Samsung Electronics. This 7-DoF humanoid arm was the lightest in the literature at that time being 3.7kg including the 8-DoF hand. During her Postdoctoral positions in the Institut des Systems Intelligents et de Robotic in Universitat Pierre Marie Curie, Paris VI, she developed laparoscopic tools named JAiMY that are internationally patented and commercialized now by Endocontrol-medical.com. At Harvard University’s Microrobotics Laboratory, she started developing unconventional robots that push the physical limits of material and mechanisms. Her latest research effort is in soft robotics including self-morphing Robogami (robotic origami) that transforms its planar shape to 2D or 3D by folding in predefined patterns and sequences, just like the paper art, origami.
Colin Neil JonesColin Jones is an Associate Professor in the Automatic Control Laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He was a Senior Researcher at the Automatic Control Lab at ETH Zurich until 2011 and obtained a PhD in 2005 from the University of Cambridge for his work on polyhedral computational methods for constrained control. Prior to that, he was at the University of British Columbia in Canada, where he took a BASc and MASc in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. Colin has worked in a variety of industrial roles, ranging from commercial building control to the development of custom optimization tools focusing on retail human resource scheduling. His current research interests are in the theory and computation of predictive control and optimization, and their application to green energy generation, distribution and management.
Adam James ScholefieldAdam Scholefield received the MEng in Electric and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London in 2007.After a brief interuption of studies to compete in the Olympic Games, he received the PhD from the Communications and Signal Processing Group of Imperial College in 2013. His thesis was titled “Quadtree Structured Approximation Algorithms” and focused on image approximation algorithms with applications in image restoration.Since June 2014, he has served as a postdoctoral researcher in the Audiovisual Communications Laboratory (LCAV) at EPFL.
Timm FaulwasserEnseignement et PhD A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Martand Singhal, Predrag Milosavljevic, Tafarel de Avila Ferreira Cours Optimal Control for Dynamic Systems EE-736
