Research tracker for C4DT's affiliated professors. Each weekday an automated agent refreshes the least-recently-updated professor from their websites, code repositories, and publication feed. See README.md for how this works and how to update.
Laboratory for Computation Security (COMPSEC) · last updated 2026-07-13 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · compsec.epfl.ch · ic-people.epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0002-3029-2353 · OpenAlex A5101591310
Alessandro Chiesa leads COMPSEC at EPFL, working on the theoretical foundations and practical constructions of cryptographic proofs—including zkSNARKs, IOPs, proof-carrying data, and post-quantum secure argument systems.
Laboratory of Multimodal Intelligent Systems (MINTS) · last updated 2026-07-13 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0001-5086-7858 · OpenAlex A5004087827
Andrea Cavallaro leads the MINTS lab at EPFL, researching multimodal intelligent systems with a focus on privacy-preserving AI, vision-language models, cross-modal explainability, and multimodal perception for autonomous and robotic systems.
Scalable Computing Systems Laboratory (SaCS) · last updated 2026-07-14 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · epfl.ch · github.com/sacs-epfl · ORCID 0000-0001-8187-724X · OpenAlex A5031849486
Anne-Marie Kermarrec leads the SACS lab at EPFL, researching large-scale distributed systems with a strong focus on federated/decentralized machine learning, scalable LLM/MoE inference, agentic AI workflows, and retrieval-augmented generation.
Laboratory for Intelligent Global Health and Humanitarian Response Technologies (LiGHT) · last updated 2026-07-15 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · light-laboratory.org · ORCID 0000-0002-8826-3870 · OpenAlex a5063796208
Annie Hartley leads EPFL's LiGHT lab, developing open, auditable AI systems—most notably the Meditron clinical LLM family—for global health equity and humanitarian response in low-resource settings.
Natural Language Processing Lab (NLP Lab) · last updated 2026-07-16 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · nlp.epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0001-8968-9649 · OpenAlex A5088410008
Antoine Bosselut leads the EPFL NLP Lab, researching knowledge representation, commonsense reasoning, and language generation in NLP systems, with recent work spanning LLM-brain alignment, multimodal reasoning, and multilingual evaluation.
Parallel Systems Architecture Laboratory (PARSA) · last updated 2026-07-17 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · parsa.epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0001-5916-8068 · OpenAlex A5057697787
Babak Falsafi leads PARSA at EPFL, researching post-Moore server architecture, datacenter systems, GPU microarchitecture, and AI hardware efficiency including scaled numeric formats for DNN acceleration.
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (LIA) · last updated 2026-07-20 · ✅ reviewed · 🏁 retired
EPFL profile · lia.epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0002-7188-7230 · OpenAlex A5060427576
Boi Faltings (Professor Emeritus, LIA closed July 2025) researched multi-agent systems, game-theoretic information elicitation, privacy-preserving AI, and continual learning, with recent post-retirement publications exploring evolutionary/developmental AI paradigms and LLM-based reasoning.
Decentralized and Distributed Systems Lab (DEDIS) · last updated 2026-07-21 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · dedis.epfl.ch · github.com/dedis · ORCID 0000-0002-0528-3033 · OpenAlex A5045962151
Bryan Ford leads DEDIS at EPFL, researching decentralized trust, scalable consensus, coercion-resistant e-voting, and privacy-preserving distributed systems, with an emerging thread on formal foundations via grounded deduction logic.
Caglar Gulcehre Lab for AI Research (CLAIRE) · last updated 2026-07-22 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · epfl.ch · ORCID 0009-0003-4124-1687 · OpenAlex A5041145688
Caglar Gulcehre leads CLAIRE at EPFL, researching efficient and safe deep learning algorithms spanning reinforcement learning, large language model training, sequence modeling architectures, alignment/safety, and system-2 level reasoning.
Security and Privacy Engineering Lab (SPRING) · last updated 2026-07-23 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · spring.epfl.ch · github.com/spring-epfl · ORCID 0000-0002-2374-2248 · OpenAlex A5072857797
Carmela Troncoso leads the SPRING Lab (spanning EPFL and MPI-SP) researching security and privacy engineering, with focus on privacy-preserving systems, ML fairness/security, and privacy evaluation frameworks.
Artificial Intelligence in Molecular Medicine Lab (AIMM) · last updated 2026-07-24 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · aimm.epfl.ch · github.com/bunnelab · ORCID 0000-0003-1431-103X · OpenAlex A5033283546
Charlotte Bunne leads the AIMM Lab at EPFL, developing AI foundation models and generative methods to build "virtual patients" — multi-scale computational models of human biology for precision oncology and drug discovery.
Systems and Formalisms Lab (SYSTEMF) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · pit-claudel.fr · github.com/epfl-systemf · ORCID 0000-0002-1900-3901 · OpenAlex A5018186543
Clément Pit-Claudel leads EPFL's SYSTEMF lab, researching programming languages, formal verification, and extensible compilers to build small, fast, and completely verified critical-system components.
Swissquote Chair in Quantitative Finance · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0002-2443-5741 · OpenAlex A5059712147
Damir Filipovic holds the Swissquote Chair in Quantitative Finance at EPFL, conducting research on term structure models, machine learning methods for fixed-income pricing, risk management, and stochastic processes.
Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · esl.epfl.ch · github.com/esl-epfl · ORCID 0000-0001-9536-4947 · OpenAlex A5074236306
David Atienza leads EPFL's Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL), pioneering system-level design methods for high-performance edge AI, ultra-low-power IoT/MPSoC architectures, smart wearables, and thermal-aware computing.
Data Center Systems Laboratory (DCSL) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · epfl.ch · github.com/epfl-dcsl · ORCID 0000-0001-7237-6929 · OpenAlex A5049034675
Edouard Bugnion leads EPFL's Data Center Systems Laboratory (DCSL), researching datacenter efficiency (low-latency networking, transport protocols) and system security (Trusted Execution Environments, virtual firmware monitors), while also serving as EPFL's Vice President for Innovation and Impact since January 2025.
Heritage, Anthropology and Technologies Research Group (HAT) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0002-9499-1479 · OpenAlex A5010772457
Florence Graezer Bideau is an anthropologist and sinologist leading EPFL's HAT lab, researching heritage governance, cultural policy, memory, and technology transmission through comparative fieldwork across Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
Chair of Science Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0002-7862-0918 · OpenAlex A5086533373
Gaétan de Rassenfosse is an innovation economist at EPFL's STIP lab studying how legal and policy frameworks — especially patents and IP — shape technology creation and commercialization, using large-scale data, econometrics, and machine learning.
Dependable Systems Laboratory (DSLAB) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · dslab.epfl.ch · github.com/dslab-epfl · ORCID 0009-0002-8107-6535 · OpenAlex A5028907149
George Candea leads EPFL's Dependable Systems Lab (DSLAB), focusing on making performance and energy programmable in computer systems through formal verification, performance interfaces, and efficient OS/network-function design.
Integrated Systems Laboratory (LSI) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · lsi.epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0002-7827-3215 · OpenAlex A5072927296
Giovanni De Micheli is a pioneering Professor Emeritus at EPFL's Integrated Systems Laboratory (LSI) and Scientific Director of EcoCloud, specializing in Electronic Design Automation (EDA), logic synthesis, and design technologies for emerging computing platforms including superconducting, quantum, and nanosystems.
Fellay Lab – Human Genomics of Infection and Immunity (GR-FE) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · fellay-lab.epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0002-8240-939X · OpenAlex A5089009771
Jacques Fellay leads the Fellay Lab at EPFL, using large-scale genomics and bioinformatics to dissect how human genetic variation shapes immunity and individual outcomes in infectious diseases, with a translational focus on personalized medicine.
Chair SFI-JH · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0003-1356-5070 · OpenAlex A5002167713
Julien Hugonnier is a Full Professor of Finance at EPFL/Swiss Finance Institute whose research spans asset pricing theory, OTC market microstructure, incomplete markets, and financial frictions, with recent work on perpetual futures, heterogeneous beliefs, and government debt dynamics.
Network Architecture Laboratory (NAL) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · epfl.ch · github.com/nal-epfl · ORCID 0009-0004-9470-2819 · OpenAlex A5011668097
Katerina Argyraki leads EPFL's Network Architecture Lab (NAL), focusing on network transparency, neutrality inference, and predictable software network functions, with current work spanning Internet latency mapping from gaming footage, edge caching as differentiation, and traffic localization.
Digital Epidemiology Lab (SALATHELAB) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · digitalepidemiologylab.org · github.com/digitalepidemiologylab · ORCID 0000-0002-5079-7797 · OpenAlex A5010649096
Marcel Salathé leads the Digital Epidemiology Lab at EPFL, applying AI and mobile technologies to public health challenges including digital nutrition cohorts, gut microbiome research, personalized glucose prediction, and LLM-based analysis of health discourse.
Distributed Electrical Systems Laboratory (DESL) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · desl-pwrs.epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0001-7073-9036 · OpenAlex A5050504092
Mario Paolone leads EPFL's Distributed Electrical Systems Laboratory (DESL), focusing on smart grid technologies including real-time monitoring and control of active distribution networks, PMU-based situational awareness, optimal planning of distributed energy resources, and integration of renewables and storage in power systems.
Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory (MLO) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · mlo.epfl.ch · github.com/epfml · ORCID 0000-0003-1579-5558 · OpenAlex A5073756389
Martin Jaggi leads the MLO lab at EPFL, researching scalable machine learning optimization, distributed/federated learning, and large language model training — including the Apertus open LLM and the DISCO browser-based collaborative learning platform.
Programming Methods Laboratory (LAMP) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · lamp.epfl.ch · github.com/lampepfl · ORCID 0009-0005-3923-8993 · OpenAlex A5085410724
Martin Odersky leads EPFL's LAMP group, designing and implementing the Scala programming language with a focus on unifying functional and object-oriented programming through advanced type systems, including capture checking, substructural types, and safe concurrency.
HexHive Laboratory (HEXHIVE) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · hexhive.epfl.ch · github.com/HexHive · ORCID 0000-0001-5054-7547 · OpenAlex A5065116578
Mathias Payer leads the HexHive Laboratory at EPFL, focusing on systems and software security through fuzzing, sanitization, exploit mitigations, and compartmentalization, with a strong record of top-venue publications and open-source tooling.
Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory (INDY) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · indy.epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0002-3031-1438 · OpenAlex A5014508720
Matthias Grossglauser leads EPFL's INDY Lab, researching machine learning, stochastic networks, and discrete choice models with applications in reinforcement learning, network science, graph mining, and recommender systems.
Networked Systems Abstractions Lab (LASER) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · laser.epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0002-6557-684X · OpenAlex A5013378091
Nate Foster leads the Networked Systems Abstractions Lab (LASeR) at EPFL, developing programming languages and formal verification tools for networked systems, with flagship contributions to NetKAT, P4, and consistent network updates.
Theory of Machine Learning Laboratory (TML) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · epfl.ch · OpenAlex A5061093552
Nicolas Flammarion leads the Theory of Machine Learning Laboratory at EPFL, developing algorithmic and theoretical foundations for machine learning with a strong current focus on the theory of large language models, in-context learning, implicit regularization in deep learning, adversarial robustness, and stochastic optimization.
Processor Architecture Laboratory (LAP) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · lap.epfl.ch · github.com/EPFL-LAP · ORCID 0000-0002-6142-7345 · OpenAlex A5020575991
Paolo Ienne leads EPFL's Processor Architecture Laboratory (LAP), specializing in computer architecture, FPGAs, reconfigurable computing, dynamic high-level synthesis (DHLS), and electronic design automation.
Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS4) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · lts4.epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0002-4010-714X · OpenAlex A5000947076
Pascal Frossard leads EPFL's LTS4 lab, researching machine learning, graph signal processing, image analysis, and AI applications in health and science discovery, while also co-directing the EPFL AI Center and the Swiss Data Science Center.
Chair SFI-PCD · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
Pierre Collin-Dufresne is a Full Professor at EPFL/Swiss Finance Institute whose research spans asset pricing, credit markets, market microstructure, and information economics, with publications in top journals including Econometrica, AER, and Journal of Finance.
Distributed Computing Laboratory (DCL) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · dcl.epfl.ch · github.com/Distributed-EPFL · github.com/LPD-EPFL · ORCID 0000-0002-4794-8902 · OpenAlex A5049321288
Rachid Guerraoui leads EPFL's Distributed Computing Laboratory (DCL), pioneering research in robust (Byzantine-resilient) machine learning, distributed algorithms, secure distributed storage, and concurrent computing.
Data Science Laboratory (DLAB) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · dlab.epfl.ch · github.com/epfl-dlab · ORCID 0000-0001-6398-0921 · OpenAlex A5059645286
Robert West leads EPFL's Data Science & AI Lab (dlab), conducting research at the intersection of AI, NLP, and computational social science with a focus on safe and beneficial AI systems.
Chair SFI-RF · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0003-0102-3717 · OpenAlex A5022485788
Rüdiger Fahlenbrach is a Full Professor of Finance at EPFL and Director of the College of Management, specializing in empirical corporate finance with a focus on corporate governance, entrepreneurship, and the economics of startups and venture capital.
Image and Visual Representation Laboratory (IVRL) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · ivrl.epfl.ch · github.com/IVRL · ORCID 0000-0002-0441-6068 · OpenAlex A5078201467
Sabine Süsstrunk leads the IVRL at EPFL, researching computational photography, color image processing, computer vision, and image quality, with recent work spanning low-light denoising, diffusion-based image editing, neural cellular automata, and deepfake detection.
Robust Scalable Systems Software Lab (RS3Lab) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · sanidhya.github.io · rs3lab.github.io · github.com/rs3lab · ORCID 0000-0002-9534-8565 · OpenAlex A5030479442
Sanidhya Kashyap leads the RS3Lab at EPFL, designing performant, scalable, and robust systems software — spanning operating systems, concurrency, memory management, file systems, fuzzing, and networks — for modern heterogeneous hardware.
Chair SFI-SM · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0001-6574-7322 · OpenAlex A5067616912
Semyon Malamud is an EPFL Associate Professor and Swiss Finance Institute chair whose research sits at the intersection of machine learning, high-dimensional statistics, and financial economics, with a focus on asset pricing, portfolio theory, and market microstructure.
Security and Cryptography Laboratory (LASEC) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · lasec.epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0001-9185-1449 · OpenAlex A5073902849
Serge Vaudenay leads EPFL's Security and Cryptography Laboratory (LASEC), focusing on cryptographic analysis, post-quantum cryptography, lightweight cryptography, and secure communication channels.
Verification and Computer Architecture Lab (VCA) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · vca.epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0002-8468-8409 · OpenAlex A5031573662
Thomas Bourgeat leads the VCA lab at EPFL, focusing on formal verification of hardware (processors, dataflow circuits, cache coherence protocols), hardware–software interface specifications, and security verification at the RTL level.
Quantum Complexity and Cryptography Laboratory (QCC) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0002-6405-365X · OpenAlex A5019616211
Thomas Vidick leads the Quantum Complexity and Cryptography Laboratory (QCC) at EPFL, working at the intersection of quantum computing theory, interactive proof systems, quantum error correction, and device-independent cryptography.
Multimedia Signal Processing Group (MMSPG) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · mmspg.epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0002-9900-3687 · OpenAlex A5082188773
Touradj Ebrahimi leads EPFL's Multimedia Signal Processing Group (MMSPG), focusing on AI-powered image/video coding, JPEG standardization (including JPEG AI and JPEG DNA), media security, and quality assessment.
Lab for Automated Reasoning and Analysis (LARA) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · lara.epfl.ch · github.com/epfl-lara · ORCID 0000-0001-7044-9522 · OpenAlex A5008699657
Viktor Kunčak leads EPFL's LARA lab, developing automated reasoning, formal verification, and program synthesis tools — most notably the Stainless verifier for Scala — and is now pushing into AI-assisted Lean 4 formalization with the new LeanFlow agent framework.
Laboratory for Information and Inference Systems (LIONS) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · lions.epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0002-5004-201X · OpenAlex A5027059837
Volkan Cevher leads EPFL's LIONS lab, conducting research at the intersection of machine learning, optimization theory, and reinforcement learning, with recent focus on LLM training, adversarial robustness, and online learning in games.
Mathematics of Information Laboratory (MIL) · last updated 2026-07-10 · ✅ reviewed
EPFL profile · theory.epfl.ch · ORCID 0000-0002-2575-1762 · OpenAlex A5052329970
Yanina Shkel is an Assistant Professor at EPFL's Mathematics of Information Laboratory, working on the theoretical foundations of data privacy (differential privacy, maximal leakage), information-theoretic secrecy, minimum entropy couplings, and functional representations.