EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences
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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne / Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
🧬 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...
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...
The campus is a little quieter these days... #SilentSunday #Lausanne
🧬 Could virtual cells become a new tool for scientific discovery? Prof. Charlotte Bunne (EPFL) and Dr. Aviv Regev (Genentech) explore how AI and single-cell biology are converging to create models that can simulate cellular behavior and guide discovery. Read more: www.amacad.org/publication/...
What if AI could help restore meaningful vision to blind people? New EPFL research, led by Johannes Mehrer and Prof. Martin Schrimpf, is developing AI models that could one day enable visual prosthetics able to restore object-level sight for the blind. Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/ai-brin...
The talk also explored how conversational AI agents can support self-awareness and psychological well-being through music listening. Prof. Li Chen highlighted music-based reminiscence, where songs help people recall, reflect on, and better understand past experiences and emotions. 😁⚡️
🎵 Recommendation systems shouldn't just reinforce what we already like. they should also help us discover something new. The professor explains their approach of critiquing-based conversations: progressively recommending familiar content before introducing more diverse options over time. 🎧🔥
Can music recommender systems become tools for self-awareness and well-being? 🎶 Join us for a fascinating AI for Health talk by Professor Li Chen.
The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced new faculty appointments at EPFL, including two within our IC School that we are proud to share with you.
In a prestigious appointment, the former President of EPFL and IC Professor Martin Vetterli has been nominated as Chair of the European Research Council (ERC) Identification Committee. 👉 Read more : actu.epfl.ch/news/martin-vetterli-appointed-to-lead-high-level-europ/
As AI systems become more heterogeneous and compiler stacks more complex, general-purpose fuzzing is reaching its limits. The talk highlighted how domain-aware, low-cost custom fuzzers, with smarter mutations for instance, could make testing modern AI infrastructure far more effective and scalable.
Happening now at the IC Colloquium 👀 Prof. Miryung Kim from UCLA discussing the future of testing AI systems, ML compilers, and fuzzing techniques ⚙️🧠
A cloudy day on campus... ⛅ #WindowFriday
IC and STI had the pleasure of hosting the Honorary Lecture of Professor Giovanni De Micheli, bringing together his former students, researchers and faculty members, to celebrate his pioneering research and academic excellence. Thank you Nanni, for everything you have given throughout your career.⚡️
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🚀 pls carry :3 wins prestigious EPFL cybersecurity competition LakeCTF The fourth edition of Lake CTF brought ten teams to EPFL to take part in a jeopardy-style security hacking contest – with no LLMs allowed. Check it out 👉 actu.epfl.ch/news/pls-car...
A sincere thank you to our amazing sponsors for supporting LakeCTF 2026! Thanks to your support, participants traveled from as far as Hong Kong, South Korea, Vietnam, the United States, and across Europe. Asymmetric Research, OtterSec, Orange Cyberdefense, infomaniak | The Ethical Cloud, Zellic.
🚀 LakeCTF is LIVE! All challenges dropped at once—teams are already deep in it ⚡ Behind-the-scenes setup 👇 more updates later 👀 #LakeCTF #CTF #CyberSecurity
💥 Our LakeCTF challenge authors are preparing some interesting challenges for the finalists, and we’re working hard to playtest them all. We can’t wait to see our guests tackle what we’ve cooked up! Let's go! 🤘🏽 #CTF #EPFL #cybersecurity
