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Thomas Hofmannمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• Natural Language Understanding
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Hofmann is a Full Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich since 2014. He also leads the Institute for Machine Learning. His research focuses on machine learning, deep learning, natural language understanding, and text understanding. Hofmann holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bonn (1997) and has held academic positions at Brown University (1999–2004) and TU Darmstadt. He transitioned to industry as Director of Engineering at Google (2006–2014), leading the Zurich R&D center, before returning to academia. He co-founded Recommind (2000) and 1plusX (Swiss marketing tech company), currently serving as Chief Scientist and board member at 1plusX. Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Bonn (1997) Postdoctoral Work: MIT (CBCL/AI Lab), UC Berkeley (EECS/ICSI) His research explores advanced machine learning techniques, including diffusion models, generative adversarial networks, and optimization dynamics. Hofmann’s entrepreneurial ventures reflect his focus on applying AI to real-world challenges, such as e-discovery and marketing technology. His work spans theoretical contributions (e.g., neural network training dynamics, continual learning) and applied innovations (e.g., image editing, portrait generation). Hofmann actively bridges academia and industry, influencing both research and commercial AI applications.

• Data Science
• Machine Learning
• Computational Harmonic Analysis
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Pierre Vandergheynst is a Full Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in the Department of Electrical Engineering, with a courtesy appointment in Computer and Communication Sciences. He serves as EPFL’s Vice-Provost for Education since 2015 and leads the Signal Processing Laboratory 2 (LTS2). His research spans harmonic analysis, sparse approximations, mathematical data processing, and applications in signal/image processing, computer vision, machine learning, and graph-based data analysis. PhD in Mathematical Physics (1998), Université catholique de Louvain Postdoctoral Researcher at EPFL (1998-2001) Assistant Professor at EPFL (2002-2007) His research explores geometry/symmetry in high-dimensional data, redundant dictionaries for dimensionality reduction, and computational harmonic analysis on manifolds. Recent work focuses on protein structure modeling, geometric deep learning, and graph-based signal processing. Key article trends include graph neural networks for protein analysis, geometric deep learning in neuroscience, and structured knowledge priors in neural models. His 2023-2025 publications emphasize interpretable AI, long-range dependencies in graphs, and molecular representation learning. Scientific Awards: IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award (2023) Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (2022) Apple ARTS Award (2007) De Boelpaepe Prize, Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium (2009-2010) He has supervised over 30 PhD theses and contributed to foundational work in graph signal processing, compressive sensing, and geometric deep learning. His lab develops tools for data science on non-Euclidean structures, with applications in medicine, astronomy, and wireless systems.

• Adaptation and learning theories
• Data and network sciences
• Statistical inference
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Ali H. Sayed is the Dean of the School of Engineering (Faculté des sciences et techniques de l'ingénieur - STI) at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, where he also directs the Adaptive Systems Laboratory (Laboratoire de systèmes adaptatifs). Previously, he served as an emeritus professor and chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA. He is a highly cited researcher and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and the World Academy of Sciences. Sayed served as president of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2018 and 2019. Professor Sayed's research focuses on adaptation and learning theories, data and network sciences, statistical inference, multi-agent systems, adaptive networks, and optimization. His work bridges theoretical foundations with practical applications in signal processing, machine learning, and network science. He has made significant contributions to distributed learning algorithms, social learning over networks, and adaptive signal processing techniques that have influenced both academic research and practical implementations. His recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on multi-agent systems, distributed learning, privacy-preserving techniques, and social learning over networks. The research trends show increasing emphasis on federated learning with privacy guarantees, graph-based learning approaches, and the intersection of social dynamics with information processing. His work consistently addresses fundamental theoretical questions while maintaining relevance to practical applications in communication networks, social media analysis, and distributed artificial intelligence systems. Professor Sayed has received numerous prestigious awards throughout his career, including: IEEE Fourier Award (2022) Norbert Wiener Society Award (2020) IEEE Signal Processing Society Education Award (2015) Papoulis Award from the European Association for Signal Processing (2014) Technical Achievement Award from IEEE Signal Processing Society (2012) Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (2005) IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize (1996) Multiple Best Paper Awards from IEEE and EURASIP Sayed has authored or co-authored over 570 publications and six monographs. He has mentored numerous PhD students and researchers in the fields of signal processing and adaptive systems. His editorial leadership includes serving as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2003-2005) and EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (2006-2007), as well as Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Open Access Book Series on Information and Learning Sciences. At EPFL, Professor Sayed leads the Adaptive Systems Laboratory, which focuses on developing theoretical frameworks and practical algorithms for adaptive systems, networked learning, and distributed signal processing. The lab's research encompasses both fundamental theoretical investigations and applications to real-world problems in communications, social networks, and computational biology.

Afonso S. Bandeiraمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• High Dimensional Probability
• Random Matrices
• Mathematical Statistics
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Afonso S. Bandeira is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics (D-MATH) at ETH Zurich, where he conducts research at the intersection of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. He maintains strong affiliations with several interdisciplinary research centers including the Institute For Operations Research (IFOR), the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems, the ETH Foundations of Data Science, and the ETH AI Center, with a courtesy appointment at D-ITET. Bandeira actively teaches courses including Mathematics of Signals, Networks, and Learning, and Mathematics of Data Science. His research focuses on High Dimensional Probability, Random Matrices, Mathematical Statistics, Theoretical Computer Science, Combinatorics, and Mathematical Optimization. Bandeira's work often explores the theoretical foundations of data science, examining phase transitions in statistical problems, computational barriers, and the geometry of high-dimensional spaces. He maintains a research group blog called Randomstrasse101 that emphasizes open problems in his field. Analysis of his recent publications reveals a strong focus on matrix and tensor concentration inequalities, synchronization problems, nonconvex optimization landscapes, and computational-statistical tradeoffs in high-dimensional inference. His work bridges theoretical mathematics with practical applications in machine learning and data analysis, particularly examining where computational limitations arise in statistical problems. Bandeira actively mentors students and researchers, currently supervising several doctoral candidates including Daniil Dmitriev, Konstantin Donhauser, Anastasia Kireeva, Kevin Lucca, Chiara Meroni, Gil Kur, Petar Nizic-Nikolac, and Almut Roedder. He emphasizes that students working with him should participate in the DACO seminar and group meetings, and encourages prospective students to have completed his Mathematics of Signals, Networks, and Learning or Mathematics of Data Science courses. He leads a research group focused on the mathematics of data science, with regular group meetings and seminars. Bandeira has developed comprehensive lecture notes including 'A Tour Through the Mathematics of Signals, Learning, and Networks' (2025) and 'Mathematics of Machine Learning' (2021), and previously authored 'Ten Lectures and Forty-Two Open Problems in the Mathematics of Data Science' (2015).

Melanie Zeilingerمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Learning-based Control
• Distributed Control and Optimization
• Robotics
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Prof. Dr. Melanie Zeilinger is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, leading the Intelligent Control Systems group at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control. She holds a diploma in Engineering Cybernetics from the University of Stuttgart (2006) and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich (2011). Her postdoctoral research included stints at EPFL (2011–2012), a Marie Curie fellowship at UC Berkeley and the Max Planck Institute (2012–2015), and a professorship at the University of Freiburg (2018–2019). Her research focuses on learning-based control, distributed control systems, and robotics , with applications to medical devices (e.g., hydrocephalus shunts) and human-in-the-loop systems. She organizes the Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC) and contributes to initiatives like the "Algorithm on My Team" project. Her awards include the ETH Medal for her PhD thesis, a Marie-Curie IO Fellowship , and an SNF Assistant Professorship grant . She serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Control Systems Letters and actively reviews for top journals/conferences like IEEE TAC, Automatica, and NeurIPS. Key projects include: VIEshunt: A smart ventricular shunt for hydrocephalus treatment, combining control systems and medical engineering. Autonomous Racing: Contextual tuning and safety-certified learning-based MPC for real-time obstacle avoidance. Data-Driven Control: Integrating Gaussian processes and state-space models into MPC frameworks for uncertain systems. Her work bridges control theory, machine learning, and robotics, addressing societal challenges such as healthcare and energy efficiency.

Christophe Anceyمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Fluid Dynamics
• Rheology
• Hydraulics
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Christophe Ancey is an Associate Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he serves in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), specifically in the Institute of Civil Engineering (IIC) and the Environmental Hydraulics Laboratory (LHE). He also holds teaching appointments in SGC-Teaching and EDME-Teaching departments at EPFL. His office is located at GC A1 401, Station 18, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. Ancey holds both a PhD and engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Paris and Grenoble National Polytechnic Institute. After completing his doctoral work (1994-1997) on rheology of granular flows under Pierre Evesque, he worked as a researcher at Cemagref before joining EPFL in 2004. He directs the Environmental Hydraulics Laboratory and serves as associate editor for Water Resources Research, a leading journal in hydrology. Dr. Ancey's research spans fluid dynamics, rheology, and hydraulics with emphasis on geophysical flows and natural hazards. His work focuses on three interconnected themes: rheology of concentrated suspensions (particularly granular flows in avalanches and mudflows), inverse problems in rheology (determining microscopic behavior from macroscopic measurements), and particle entrainment in turbulent suspensions (erosion and sediment transport processes). His recent publications (2022-2025) demonstrate continued innovation in sediment transport modeling, experimental techniques like PIV for complex flows, and integration of machine learning approaches. The research shows progression from fundamental fluid mechanics to practical applications in natural hazard assessment and river engineering, with particular attention to granular segregation, avalanche-obstacle interactions, and river morphodynamics. Associate Editor, Water Resources Research Co-founder of Toraval, an engineering consulting firm specializing in avalanche risk management Dr. Ancey teaches courses on Fluid Mechanics, Flood and Dam Break Waves, Hydrological Risks and Structures, and Similarity and Transport Phenomena in Fluids. He has supervised numerous PhD students whose work spans environmental hydraulics, granular flows, and sediment transport, with current students including Chen Yanan, Farazande Sofi, and Giboulot Axel Loïc among others.

Emilio Frazzoliمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Autonomous Robotics
• Control Systems
• Game Theory
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Emilio Frazzoli is a Full Professor at ETH Zurich’s Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering. He leads the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control and the Center for Sustainable Future Mobility, focusing on autonomous systems, robotics, and socio-technical control frameworks. Current affiliations: ETH Zurich (Dynamic Systems and Control, Sustainable Future Mobility) Research: Autonomous mobility-on-demand, game theory for resource allocation, and safety verification in multi-agent systems His work bridges robotics, control theory, and economics, with projects like the open-source AMoDeus simulation framework for autonomous taxis and karma-based resource allocation systems. Recent publications emphasize trustworthy AI, reproducibility in autonomous vehicle control, and human-robot interaction challenges. Notable projects include nuReality (VR-based pedestrian interaction studies) and CARSI II (context-driven vehicle interfaces).

• Medical Machine Learning
• Data Science
• Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
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Prof. Dr. Julia Vogt is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zürich, leading the Professur für Medizin. Datenwiss. Her research focuses on medical machine learning, data science, and AI applications in healthcare. She specializes in developing interpretable AI systems for clinical decision support, particularly in pediatric diabetes management, medical imaging analysis, and anomaly detection. Her work bridges translational gaps by emphasizing causal approaches and clinical validation. Her academic role includes teaching courses like the Data Science Lab (263-3300-00L/10L) and Topics in Medical Machine Learning (263-5100-00L). Her lab's research spans predictive modeling for nocturnal hypoglycemia, echocardiogram analysis for pulmonary hypertension detection, and multimodal learning in radiology. She also contributes to national pediatric data initiatives like SwissPedHealth. Key technical areas include concept bottleneck models, stochastic AI frameworks, and generative models for medical signal denoising. Her work often emphasizes model interpretability, fairness, and robustness to distribution shifts. She collaborates on projects involving wearable devices for pediatric monitoring and AI-driven rehabilitation tools for post-stroke gait analysis.

Matthieu Cordمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Computer Vision
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
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Matthieu Cord is a Professor at Sorbonne University and Scientific Director of valeo.ai, leading research in computer vision, deep learning, and computational cooking. He heads the MLIA team at ISIR Lab, focusing on multimodal models, transformers, and efficient architectures. Research areas include computer vision, large language models with vision, and AI-driven food analytics. Key projects: VISA-DEEP AI chair, Foundation VaViM models, and SmolVLA collaboration with Hugging Face. His recent work examines scalable multimodal models , trajectory prediction , and diffusion-based segmentation , with studies on in-context learning and biased shortcut learning in visual question answering. Articles highlight DeiT variants , fishr for OoD generalization , and STEEX for counterfactual explanations . Scientific awards include IUF Honorary Membership (2009), BMVC 2017 Best Paper, and ICIP 2018 Best Paper. As an advisor, he supervised PhD theses on topics like GAN editing , semantic segmentation , and multimodal retrieval . Current roles involve mentoring the 'Research Band' at MLIA and leading EU-funded initiatives like SCAPE. His work bridges theoretical AI exploration with practical applications in autonomous driving and food technology.

• Multiscale Modeling
• Multiphysics Modeling
• Biophysics
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Dr. Igor V. Pivkin is a Full Professor at the Institute of Computing within the Faculty of Informatics at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland. His academic journey includes degrees from Novosibirsk State University (B.Sc./M.Sc. Mathematics), Brown University (M.Sc. Computer Science and Ph.D. Applied Mathematics), and postdoctoral research at MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering. His research focuses on multiscale/multiphysics modeling , numerical methods , and large-scale simulations of biological and physical systems. Key areas include biophysics, cellular/molecular biomechanics, stochastic modeling, and coarse-grained molecular simulations. He leverages high-performance computing (HPC) and particle-based methods to address complex biological phenomena. His work spans diverse applications, from understanding cellular mechanosensitivity and biofilm engineering to modeling cancer cell behavior and red blood cell dynamics in the spleen. His contributions bridge computational science, biotechnology, and biomedical research. He has published extensively in top-tier journals, with recent work advancing automated biofilm analysis, deep learning for microbial classification, and systems biology approaches to metal bioleaching. His lab collaborates on interdisciplinary projects, emphasizing computational innovation for real-world biological challenges.

Gianni Franchiمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Machine Learning
• Computer Vision
• Uncertainty Quantification
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Gianni Franchi is an Assistant Professor at ENSTA Paris, part of Institut Polytechnique de Paris. His research focuses on robust computer vision, uncertainty quantification, and explainable AI (XAI). He has been teaching Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning courses since 2020 at ENSTA Paris and Télécom Paris. PhD in Fusion of Information, Machine Learning, and Image Processing (2016) from Mines de Paris Postdoctoral experience at Paris Saclay University (2018-2020) and Seigen University (2016-2018) Current PhD students: Rémi Kazmierczak, Olivier Laurent, Adrien Lafage, Mouïn Ben Ammar Alumni: Xuanlong Yu (2020-2023) Research interests include robust computer vision, anomaly detection, uncertainty quantification, out-of-distribution detection, certifiable AI, and explainable AI. He leads the development of the PyTorch library Torch Uncertainty for uncertainty quantification in deep learning. Recent publications span uncertainty quantification in foundation models, trajectory forecasting, vision-language adaptation, and explainability benchmarks. Gianni actively collaborates on multimodal autonomous driving datasets and uncertainty-aware systems for human-agent interaction.

Damir Filipovicمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Quantitative Finance
• Risk Management
• Machine Learning
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Academic Profile: Damir Filipovic is a Full Professor and the Swissquote Chair in Quantitative Finance at the College of Management of Technology (CDM) of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He previously held academic positions at the University of Vienna, University of Munich, and Princeton University, and served as Head of the Vienna Institute of Finance. Research Focus: Quantitative finance, risk management, stochastic processes, term structure modeling, volatility risk, and machine learning applications in financial markets. Industry Collaboration: Co-developed the Swiss Solvency Test for insurance capital requirements while consulting for the Swiss Federal Office of Private Insurance. Publications: Contributed extensively to journals like Journal of Financial Economics, Mathematical Finance, and Annals of Applied Probability, with a textbook on Term-Structure Models. Academic Service: Editorial board member of multiple journals and organizer of advanced workshops on systemic risk and financial technology. Recent Research: His work emphasizes machine learning for portfolio risk management, kernel-based yield curve estimation, and robust stochastic modeling. Keynote speaker at international conferences on finance and insurance mathematics, with over 15 recent publications in 2023-2025 addressing high-dimensional financial problems, neural control systems, and causal inference in market data. Education: Ph.D. in Mathematics from ETH Zurich (2000). Graduate of ETH Zurich and University of Vienna. Teaching & Mentorship: Supervises current and former EPFL Ph.D. students in quantitative finance, including Nicolas Camenzind, Joshua Hayes, Andrea Ruglioni, and ten others. Former students like Damien Ackerer and Lotfi Boudabsa now lead research in risk management. Labs & Programs: Directs EPFL's Finance and Technology Programme, leads the Computational Finance Group (CSF) at EPFL, and contributes to Swiss Finance Institute initiatives. Scientific Leadership: Served on EPFL Committee of Academic Evaluation and Doctoral Program Finance committee.

Christoph Stadtfeldمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Social Network Analysis
• Dynamics of Social Networks
• Statistical Methods for Network Data
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Christoph Stadtfeld is Associate Professor of Social Networks at ETH Zurich's Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences and co-director of the ETH Social Networks Lab. His research examines social network dynamics, focusing on tie formation processes, network effects on individuals, and advanced statistical methodologies for longitudinal network analysis. Education: PhD from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2011) Postdoctoral researcher and Marie-Curie fellow at University of Groningen, University of Lugano, and MIT Media Lab (2011-2014) His work bridges sociology, statistics, and computer science to address fundamental questions about how social structures evolve and influence behavior. Key interests include relational event modeling, co-evolution of networks and attributes, and applications in mental health, political polarization, and scientific collaboration. He develops innovative methods for analyzing dynamic networks using cutting-edge computational approaches. Recent publications reveal strong emphasis on methodological rigor in temporal network analysis, with significant contributions to relational event modeling and dynamic network actor frameworks. His work increasingly addresses societal challenges including political polarization, mental health impacts of social isolation, and innovation dynamics in healthcare. Scientific awards: Raymond Boudon Award of the European Academy of Sociology (2017) Freeman Award of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (2021) As co-director of the ETH Social Networks Lab, Stadtfeld leads interdisciplinary research teams developing novel network methodologies. His work has been supported by prestigious fellowships including Marie-Curie funding, and he actively mentors graduate students in network science methodology and applications across diverse domains. The ETH Social Networks Lab serves as a hub for advancing network theory and methodology, with ongoing projects examining student networks during crises, scientific collaboration dynamics, and innovation ecosystems through the lens of network science.

Edouard Boujoمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس

• Fluid Dynamics
• Flow Stability
• Flow Control
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Dr. Edouard Boujo is a Scientist and Lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) , affiliated with the School of Engineering (STI) and working in the Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IGM) and Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics and Instabilities (LFMI) . He also teaches in the SGM-ENS department of the School of Engineering. Scientist at EPFL STI IGM LFMI Lecturer at EPFL STI-SGM SGM-ENS His research focuses on Fluid Dynamics with expertise in Flow Stability , Flow Control , Aeroacoustics , Thermoacoustics , Fluid-Structure Interaction , and Coating Flow Dynamics . He employs advanced mathematical modeling and computational methods to study complex fluid behaviors. Recent publications highlight his work on stochastic modeling of fluid instabilities, adjoint-based optimization of flow systems, and nonlinear dynamics of coating flows. His 15 most recent papers cover topics ranging from symmetry-breaking bifurcations to spin coating optimization and noise-induced transitions in fluid systems. Dr. Boujo actively collaborates with institutions across Europe and New Zealand, mentoring PhD student Atharva Lagwankar . He has received research funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation for two PhD theses and contributes to major fluid dynamics conferences like the European Fluid Dynamics Conference and APS Division of Fluid Dynamics meetings. His laboratory work at LFMI involves experimental and computational studies of fluid instabilities, with applications in aerospace, mechanical engineering, and industrial coating processes. He develops adjoint-based control methods for optimizing flow systems and reducing drag in various fluid configurations.

Hugo Duminil-Copinمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Mathematical Physics
• Combinatorics
• Probability Theory

Hugo Duminil-Copin is a Full Professor at the University of Geneva and a permanent professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) since 2016. His research focuses on Mathematical Physics , Combinatorics , and Probability Theory . Education : École Normale Supérieure (ENS) Paris, University of Paris-Saclay Awards : 2022 Fields Medal for work in statistical physics Research Trends : Probabilistic aspects of lattice models Phase transitions and critical phenomena Conformal invariance and percolation theory Collaborations : Active collaborations with researchers such as R. Panis, S. Goswami, I. Manolescu, and others. Teaching : Offers courses in mathematical physics and probability at the University of Geneva. His recent publications emphasize critical models, random-cluster models, and Gaussian free fields, with applications in planar and high-dimensional systems. He supervises doctoral students including Emile Averous , Aman Markar , and Tiancheng He .