ICCAD Award from Opening Session ICCAD 2020

Deep Learning Algorithms Helping to Clear Space Junk from our Skies

EPFL researchers are at the forefront of developing some of the cutting-edge technology for the European Space Agency’s first mission to remove space debris from orbit. How do you measure the pose – that is the 3D rotation and 3D translation – of a piece of space junk so that a grasping satellite can capture (…)

Servers designed to look like humans

David Atienza believes that when it comes to IT systems, everything that can be done locally, should be. That includes processing data where they are generated – thereby substantially reducing the amount of power required. EPFL’s Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL) is studying two major energy-related problems with servers. The first is that they aren’t being (…)

Coughvid Crowdsourcing Dataset

Lara Orlandic, a final year Master’s student at ESL, gives a presentation on the aims and strategies of Coughvid, during the the COVID-19 Sounds Workshop at Cambridge University.

David Atienza receives ICCAD award

David Atienza, professor at the School of Engineering and Head of the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL), has received with his co-authors the IEEE/ACM ICCAD Ten Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award for the scientific publication entitled « 3D-ICE: Fast compact transient thermal modeling for 3D-ICs with inter-tier liquid cooling ». Presented at the IEEE/ACM International (…)

BioAlps monitor progress of Coughvid

The BioAlps Life Sciences Cluster featured the following article as part of their testimonial series. This series aims to provide a platform for the different life sciences actors from western Switzerland, who are active in finding and developing solutions to fight against the new coronavirus, to share their experience. The Embedded Systems Laboratory at EPFL (…)

Modular Biomedical Applications for Ultra-Low Power Heterogeneous Platforms – Elisabetta De Giovanni

Embedded Systems Laboratory of EPFL IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems: ESWEEK-TCAD 2020

Swissinfo feature on Coughvid

As we get closer to the first release of the Coughvid application, Swissinfo spoke to Tomas Teijeiro and David Atienza about its ongoing development. Coughs have been a valuable diagnostic tool for centuries. Today, being able to say whether you have a tell-tell dry Covid cough or a harmless hack is a crucial – perhaps (…)

Federated Learning Demands More Programmable Hardware

Artificial intelligence itself has been a disruptive technology. Federated learning is an approach to AI that might end up disrupting AI itself. At the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), David Atienza, professor and director of Embedded Systems Laboratory, is spearheading an initiative to develop the technique, an alternative to the traditional centralized machine learning (…)

ISVLSI 2020 Best Paper Award!

Congratulations to Halima Najibi, Alexandre Levisse, Marina Zapater and David Atienza for winning a best paper award at the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI. The online presentation: The entire award ceremony: