This page is for students currently enrolled in an EPFL bachelors or masters program.
NO FURTHER PROJECT OFFERINGS FOR FALL 2024
We cannot offer to advise any further semester projects of theses for the Fall of 2024. We are currently a small lab and have accepted as many student projects as we can; if you are searching for an advisor, look for the labs with many members and staff — they are more likely to be able to accommodate you. You can find this out by doing a search such as https://search.epfl.ch/?filter=unit&q=DATA (entering the lab name).
However, we teach the course CS358 Making Intelligent Things that you can take instead of a semester project. Please consider taking this course!
Semester and master’s projects
Note: The following applies to students who are currently enrolled in an EPFL bachelors or masters program.
Yes, we offer semester, bachelors, and masters projects. There is no list of topics here since such a list tends to be always out of date.
If you are interested in a project with us, please send email to Christoph Koch.
In your email, please indicate which technical topics in computer science and/or data science you feel you like / you are strong at. (Example: “I took the Advanced Databases course and liked it, and would be interested in a project related to building and actual database system” or “I am interested in practical data science and in (distributed) systems. I liked building things using Spark in the Applied Data Science course”.)
Remember that we are a lab specializing in data management. If you want to work on a machine learning project, don’t contact us but the lab of one of the machine learning professors. Here is a list: https://www.epfl.ch/schools/ic/research/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning/. As of July 2024, there are 27 labs in this list — plenty to choose from an no need to ignore this and contact us.
External masters theses
We do advise external masters thesis projects, but we impose high standards on the project and the external advisor. Your advisor has to be an accomplished researcher (in an industry lab) and your project has to be work towards a scientific publication. We reserve the right to turn down advising such a thesis if we do not find success in the endeavour credible.