Category: achievements
Android event was a great success!
“Android meets Internet of Things” took place at ESL on the 22nd February, 2025. The room was packed, and a lot of fantastic projects were presented! Prizes were awarded to the following projects: First place: “SeizureGuard” by Francesco Poluzzi and François Dumoncel This app performs real-time seizure detection from EEG signals using an AI model developed (…)
Scientastic 2024 was a great success!
Scientastic is: The discovery of science and technology at the heart of EPFL Campus, for both adults and children. Two days to explore, practice, meet scientists and researchers who invent tomorrow’s world. The opportunity to understand how science and technology impact our everyday life.

ESL-led project given award by the SDSC
A team led by Dr Jonathan Dan of the EPFL Embedded Systems Lab won the prize for Best Research Data Infrastructure at the Open Research Data for the Sciences hackathon, organised by the Swiss Data Science Center. The team developed a research data infrastructure to benchmark epileptic seizure detection algorithms on private datasets. The platform (…)
BiomedBench to be published in TinyML special edition
We are delighted to announce that our latest paper on BiomedBench has been accepted for a special edition on TinyML in : IEEE Design & Test The paper is available in pre-print here: BiomedBench: A benchmark suite of TinyML biomedical applications for low-power wearables Samakovlis, Dimitrios; Albini, Stefano; Rodríguez Álvarez, Rubén; Constantinescu, Denisa-Andreea; Schiavone, Pasquale (…)
Prof. David Atienza takes on new role as Associate Vice President
lire en français The EPFL leadership team have made the official announcement that David Atienza is now Associate Vice President for Centers and Platforms (AVP-CP), having taken over from EPFL President Elect Anna Fontcuberta. David Atienza has led the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL) since joining EPFL in 2008. In 2017, he was named a Fellow (…)
Landmark award for EcoCloud’s directors, old and new
Prof. Giovanni De Micheli, head of the Integrated Systems Laboratory (LSI), has taken over the scientific direction of the EPFL EcoCloud Center from Prof. David Atienza, head of the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL). Prof. De Micheli previously founded and directed the EPFL Integrated Systems Center (SI), and was co-founder and Program Leader of the Nano-Tera.ch (…)
Exploring open hardware/software at the cutting Edge with HiPEAC
ACACES is an annual summer school organised by the HiPEAC project (High Performance Embedded Architecture and Compilation). Giovanni Ansaloni has given a four day series of lectures at the 2024 iteration of this prestigious event Maintaining rapid growth in computing performance is key for tackling the societal challenges shaping Europe and assuring our global competitiveness (…)
Best Poster award for Epilsepsy Monitoring Framework
Dr Jonathan Dan has received the a Best Paper Award at Data Science for the Sciences (DS4S), a conference organized by the Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) and the University of Bern (UniBE). SzCORE is a framework for the validation of epileptic seizure detection algorithms, another step forward in the ongoing research carried out at (…)
David Atienza appointed ACM CSUR Editor-in-Chief
David Atienza, head of the Embedded Systems Lab in the School of Engineering, has been named Editor-in-Chief of the journal Computing Surveys (CSUR) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). CSUR is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes surveys of and tutorials on areas of computing research or practice. With an impact factor of 16.6, it (…)

HEEPocrates featured in EUROPRACTICE report
An article on the HEEPocrates chip has been published in the EUROPRACTICE Activity Report 2023. EUROPRACTICE was launched by the European Commission in 1995 as a successor of EUROCHIP (1989-1995) to enhance European industrial competitiveness in the global market. A detailed breakdown of the chip and its component processes and features is presented in the (…)