EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences

Back on campus after the break! The IC school team wishes you all the best for the midterms ahead. You can do this! 🍀📝 #EPFL #IC #Midterms

💜 Great to see the Women+ in IC community come together at EPFL! The General Assembly brought members, newcomers and allies together to elect the new committee, share ideas and connect over pizza. 🍕 Thanks to everyone who joined, and best wishes to the new committee! #WomenInTech #EPFL

A look back at Confluence @ EPFL 2026 🌊 Two days of talks, exchanges and new connections across disciplines, bringing together researchers from EPFL and leading institutions around the world. A few highlights from the event. 📸Photos : Johani Kazadi / Mauro Kunz #EPFL #Confluence2026

What happens when computing meets quantum physics, game theory and neuroscience? 💡 At this year’s Confluence @ EPFL, researchers explored how ideas across disciplines could shape computing’s future, from safer AI to human reasoning. 🔗️️️️️️ Read more : news.epfl.ch/news/conflue...

Confluence @ EPFL We are at the Fireside Chat on the future of Embodied intelligence. Three experts from three different EPFL schools (Mathematics, Life Sciences, Engineering) discuss the importance of the connection between "body and mind" in the context of recent advancements in AI. #EPFL #IC #AI

Confluence @ EPFL: from Odersky's "end of programming?" keynote to delegating authority to misaligned agents, reasoning in brains vs machines, learning in markets and contract sequencing. Two tracks, many fields, one workshop. 👉 confluence2026.epfl.ch #IC #Confluence@EPFL #AI

Today, we are at a keynote called "The end of programming?" by Martin Odersky. It tackles the safety risks of autonomous code generation and how type systems must evolve to contain AI agents. If AI writes the software, what role do humans play, and what keeps systems safe? #EPFL #IC #Programming

Last Saturday, we celebrated more than 300 new IC graduates at the Magistrale ceremony! It was a day filled with joy, gratitude, and lots of unforgettable moments. Congratulations to all graduates and we wish you the best of luck for your next adventures! #EPFL #Graduation #Magistrale #IC

📣 Open call: propose a research programme at the Bernoulli Center for 2028 in #mathematics, #theoreticalphysics or #theoreticalcomputerscience. Programmes last 2 to 9 weeks. Deadline: 31 March 2027. 👉 bernoulli.epfl.ch/bernoulli-pr... #EPFL #icepfl #BernoulliCenter

🏆 Inspiring the next generation of software engineers Congratulations to IC professor Clément Pit-Claudel, winner of the 2026 EPFL Award for Best Teaching! His hands-on approach helps students build useful programs and the skills to trust their code. 🔗 Read more : actu.epfl.ch/news/superpo...

Today’s the day! 🎓✨ Wishing the very best to all the IC students taking the stage at today's Magistrale. Time to celebrate your master’s degrees and everything you've achieved! Congratulations! 🎉 #EPFL #IC #Magistrale #Graduation

👏 15 women from EPFL, including six from IC, feature in Switzerland’s 2026 Top 100+ Women in AI, Data & Robotics report. Their work spans machine learning, robotics, health and education, shaping AI across disciplines. 🔗 Read the full story: news.epfl.ch/news/15-wome...

Today, we are at the IC Colloquium about OpAMP: Approximate Message Passing with Time-Varying Linear Operators. It's about a framework called OpAMP, that upgrades classic iterative algorithms to work across distributed networks, even when slow servers drop parts of the calculation. #EPFL #IC #OpAMP

From code to creative connections 🎨 Computer science student Arthur Prahin designed the new EPFL SHS brochure’s visual identity, inspired by subway maps and the campus outline. Read the full story : news.epfl.ch/news/from-co...

Quantum computing is still out of reach for many students ⚛️ With Schiiq, EPFL students are developing an affordable, open-source tabletop quantum computer to bring hands-on quantum education to classrooms in Switzerland and beyond. 🔗 Read the full story: actu.epfl.ch/news/new-mak...

89% of EPFL students surveyed use AI. But when does it help us learn, and when does it do the thinking for us? 🤖 Explore the perspectives of students, teachers and learning experts in the full article and interactive report: news.epfl.ch/news/ai-take...

Today, we are at the IC Colloquium by Pavle Subotic about Abstract Interpretation on irregular programming environments. This talk explores how static analysis and abstract interpretation can bring software engineering rigor to real-world data workflows. #EPFL #IC #StaticAnalysis

AI is helping experts find software vulnerabilities faster but it also makes scams more convincing. EPFL professor Mathias Payer explains how updates, backups and strong passwords help protect your digital life. Read more: news.epfl.ch/news/simple-...

🇨🇭Open AI meets everyday use: Apertus 1.5, developed by EPFL, ETH Zurich and partners, is joining Proton’s Lumo assistant. Users can opt in to share anonymised feedback, helping researchers improve the model and advance open, sovereign AI. 🔗 Read the full story : actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...

Week 1 - Successfully compiled with 0 errors🧑‍💻 From reconnecting with your friends to setting up your IDEs, the first week back at EPFL has officially been successful ✅ How many squares can you check off?👇 #EPFL #IC #BackToSchool

Your school is also on Mastodon! 🦣 Do you want to try an open-source and decentralized social network, with a true chronological feed and not an algorithmic one? Then join us on EPFL's instance of Mastodon! ⭐ Create your account on social.epfl.ch (or another instance) and follow us there!

Today, we were at the IC Colloquium by Lav Varshney on Information Lattice Learning. A very interesting talk about teaching AI to find human understandable rules behind the data and not just predicting. #EPFL #IC #InformationLatticeLearning

🎥 Here’s a look back at the Welcome Day and the very beginning of our new students’ EPFL journey! New to IC? Follow us for the latest research news, events, quizzes and fun community activities. We hope you’re enjoying these first weeks of discovery and being part of the IC community! ❤️

Last Friday was the Welcome Day at EPFL! 🎓✨ New students were welcomed by EPFL President Anna Fontcuberta i Morral before getting their first taste of EPFL life: discovering the campus, meeting fellow students and enjoying activities with the Coaching 🌻 #ComputerScience #WelcomeDay #EPFL

Welcome (back) to campus! ✨ Wishing our entire IC community a great start and a semester full of learning, sharing and new experiences! 💻✨

Today, we are following the talk by Phillip Stanley-Marbell, founder & CEO of Signaloid, on "Fast Arithmetic on Compressed Representations of Continuous Probability Distributions." #EPFL #ComputerArchitecture #ProbabilisticComputing

🎓 Research is only one part of the PhD journey EPFL IC PhD candidate Shardul Chiplunkar shares how community, student representation and interests beyond academia help him navigate stress and contribute to change at EPFL. 🔗 Read the Mind to Mind interview: actu.epfl.ch/news/represe...

The Turing Course 2026/27 edition kicked off last Saturday with an opening session in BC 420, followed by a welcome apéritif. A warm welcome to this new group of passionate students! Learn more: theory.epfl.ch/CoursTuring/ #CoursTuring #ComputerScience #Informatique #IA #Education

🌐 Apertus is powering new open-source AI applications. Current AI has launched Alpha Chat, an experimental chatbot built on Apertus, the fully open language model developed by EPFL, ETH Zürich & CSCS. 🔗 Read more: news.epfl.ch/news/apertus...

The calm before the buzz returns 📚 In just 2 weeks, these empty tables will be full of laptops, lively conversations, group projects and last-minute debugging sessions. Welcome back, IC community! We can't wait to see you back on campus! 💻✨

EPFL has built its own open-source AI platform, running entirely on campus infrastructure 🤖 With 130+ open models, it gives the EPFL community secure access to AI tools while keeping data and control in-house 🇨🇭 Read more 👉 news.epfl.ch/news/soverei...

Back to school is just around the corner… are you ready? 👀 From taking way too much credits to promising yourself this semester will be different (again), the pre-semester rituals have officially begun 😌 How many squares can you already check off? #EPFL #BackToSchool #CampusLife #StudentLife #IC

🏆 Congratulations to EPFL researchers Carmela Troncoso and Christian Knabenhans on winning the 2026 Internet Defense Prize! Their work brings end-to-end encryption to collaborative documents, enabling secure collaboration without compromising usability. 🔗 Read more: news.epfl.ch/news/ic-rese...

🤖 What if an AI agent refuses a harmful request… but can still be persuaded step by step? Researchers from our NLP Laboratory developed an automated testing framework that simulates how attackers might manipulate AI agents into carrying out harmful tasks. Read more 👉 actu.epfl.ch/news/how-att...

🧬 EPFL researchers have developed VirTues, an AI foundation model that analyzes tumor tissues across patients and cancer types to uncover patterns linked to disease progression and treatment response, paving the way for more personalized cancer care. Read more 👉 news.epfl.ch/news/ai-mode...

🚀 EPFL, ETH Zurich and CSCS have released Apertus 1.5, one of the world's largest fully open LLMs. Now multimodal, Apertus offers improved reasoning, instruction following and tool use for more capable and transparent AI. Read more 👉 actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus... #EPFL #AI #OpenSource

New internship? We've got you covered 🎉 Whether you've already found your favorite colleague or you're still introducing yourself to everyone you meet, this IC Bingo is for you! How many squares can you check off? 👀 #EPFL #Bingo #Internship #StudentLife

EPFL’s Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory has teamed with the United Nations International Computing Centre to deliver a practical evaluation framework to assess the safety and reliability of AI systems. Read more 👉 news.epfl.ch/news/ic-lab-...

🎉 Congratulations to Ola Svensson who has been promoted by the Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology to Full Professor in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences, recognising his outstanding work in algorithms and theory of computing. Read more 👉 news.epfl.ch/news/appoint...

Congratulations to Charlotte Bunne on receiving the 2026 Lopez-Loreta Prize for Virtual Patient Labs, an AI project creating virtual patient models helping clinicians simulate disease progression, evaluate treatment options and advance personalized cancer care Read more actu.epfl.ch/news/charlot...

Can AI be less of a black box? 🧠 EPFL researchers have developed MiCRo (Mixture of Cognitive Reasoners), a brain-inspired LLM who uses 4 specialized modules for language, logic, social reasoning, and world knowledge, making its reasoning more transparent. Read more 👉 actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-re...

✨MeditronFO is the first fully open framework for building medical large language models, to make AI in healthcare more transparent and accountable. 🔗 Read more 👉 actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-la... #AI #Data #health #medicine #Research

Les pré-inscriptions pour le Cours Turing 2026/27 sont ouvertes jusqu’au 30 juin.
La récente cérémonie de remise des certificats de l’édition 2025/26 a marqué l’aboutissement d’une année riche en apprentissages et en projets pour nos élèves. Inscrivez-vous ici theory.epfl.ch/CoursTuring 👈

Do AI systems learn the same view of the world? Two years ago, MIT researchers proposed that as AI models become more powerful, they begin to see the world in the same way. But EPFL scientists now show the picture is more nuanced. Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/do-ai-s...