• School of Engineering

    “AI tools are cultural artifacts, not neutral software”

    How to keep information trustworthy when content is increasingly machine-made? EPFL professor Andrea Cavallaro shares his view.

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  • School of Engineering

    A ultrafast laser on a chip

    EPFL researchers have built a photonic chip that rivals much larger laboratory lasers, delivers extremely short, high-energy optical pulses, and could reshape technologies like medical diagnostics and optical atomic clocks.

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  • School of Engineering

    Appointment of STI professors

    The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of professors at EPFL, including two in the School of Engineering (STI).

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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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IEM Seminar: Precision Electronics for Physical Intelligence 9.7.2026 – 10:00 > 11:00 Speaker Prof. Qinwen Fan, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Place BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Development of TOPCon-based Solar Cell Architectures : From Single-Junction Silicon Cells to Perovskite-Silicon Tandems 9.7.2026 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker Julien HURNI Place MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Reward is not enough:Advances in reinforcement learning fromdemonstrations and preferences. 17.7.2026 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker Luca VIANO Place BC 420 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Deep Learning Foundations for Irregular Electronic Health Record Time Series: Synthesis, Feature Learning, and Irregular-Time Supervised Modeling 17.7.2026 – 17:30 > 00:00 Speaker Hojjat KARAMI Place CO 2 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Untethered Microdevices based on Magnetics and Smart Materials for Endoluminal therapy 22.7.2026 – 15:15 > 00:00 Speaker Sanjay MANOHARAN Place MC A1 272 Category Thesis defenses Read more

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