• School of Engineering

    Ali Gilani wins Outstanding Best Paper Award

    School of Engineering PhD student Ali Gilani has received an Outstanding Best Paper Award at the 2026 IEEE BioSensors conference.

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    A tiny tunable laser with no moving parts

    The Hybrid Photonics Lab in the School of Engineering has published a new paper describing a compact laser that uses a voltage-controlled metasurface to achieve ultrafast tuning.

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    Students invent devices that businesses haven't yet conjured up

    In the Assistive Technology Challenge (ATC), EPFL master’s students carry out MAKE projects to develop practical systems for the disabled.

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  • School of Engineering

    Smart sweat patch helps doctors monitor high-risk pregnancies

    An EPFL spin-off is developing a patch-like medical device that reads sweat biomarkers. Its first application will be keeping a close watch on high-risk pregnancies.

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  • School of Engineering

    Saving educational robots from the trash

    EPFL master’s student Alexandre Viegas has teamed up with repair website iFixit to develop rankings and repair guides for educational robots. His work aims to help students build new skills while promoting sustainable technology use.

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  • School of Engineering

    Stéphanie Lacour to give inaugural lecture at the Collège de France

    Stéphanie Lacour, the Bertarelli Foundation Chair in Neuroprosthetic Technology in EPFL’s School of Engineering and head of the Laboratory for Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces, will deliver her inaugural lecture on neurotechnology at the Collège de France on Thursday, February 29, 2024.

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37 Professors
10 Adjunct Professors
11 Senior Scientists
25 ERC grants

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Advancing Dynamic Performance of GaN Power Devices: from Accurate Characterization to Novel Device-Level Approaches 4.9.2026 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker Hongkeng ZHU Place MED 0 1418 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Enabling Reliable and Scalable LoRa with Collision Resolution and Centralized Radio Access 4.9.2026 – 17:30 > 00:00 Speaker Joachim Tobias TAPPAREL Place ME B3 31 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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IEM Distinguished Lecturers Seminar: Doping of silicon at the nanoscale using self-assembling materials: towards deterministic control of dopant impurities 16.9.2026 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker Dr Michele Perego, Research Director, CNR-IMM, Agrate Brianza, Italia Place ELA 2 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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IEM Distinguished Lecturers Seminar: Wireless Hybrid Integrated Systems for Body-Machine Interface 30.9.2026 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker Prof Mehdi Kiani, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Place BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Interpretable representation learning for biological data: from small molecules to genes 2.10.2026 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker Maria BOULOUGOURI Place ELA 2 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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IEM Seminar: Wetware Computing: Towards Biological Neural Networks for Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence 7.10.2026 – 09:15 > 10:00 Speaker Dr. Fred Jordan, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of FinalSpark, and CEO and Co-Founder of AlpVision Place CM 1 2 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Foundation Models for Spoken Language Understanding: Capability, Efficiency, and Application 11.12.2026 – 14:30 > 00:00 Speaker Mutian HE Place IDIAP Martigny; Rue Marconi 19; 1920 Martigny Category Thesis defenses Read more

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