School of Computer and Communication Sciences

Our School is one of the main European centers for education and research in the field of computing.

We take pride in educating students at all levels in the exciting and world-changing fields of science and technology, performing research that drives forward the boundaries of knowledge, as well as fostering the commercial use of our research and the entrepreneurial spirit of our faculty and students.

The artifacts and software of the technology revolution have changed peoples’ lives in countless ways over the past half century. And, this revolution is not over! The intellectual accomplishments of computer science are diffusing into many other disciplines, changing the way that researchers, practitioners, and people in general see their world and conceive of solutions. We are proud and happy to be at the center of these revolutions.

Education

We offer a bachelor program in Computer Science and one in Communications. We also offer four master’s programs: Computer Science, Communications, Data Science and Cyber Security.

Research

Research in IC spans a broad range of topics. Our faculty members are world leaders in many of these areas, and our PhD students go on to successful careers in academia and industry throughout Switzerland and the world.

Innovation

Our school works closely with industry, both in Switzerland and throughout the world, to lend our expertise to solve challenging problems and to bring new ideas from our labs into innovative products.

What’s new?

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Making e-voting safer from coercion and vote buying

20.12.24EPFL

As we come to the end of a year in which half the world’s population went to the polls, EPFL researchers developed and field-tested a groundbreaking new technology to protect remote electronic voting or e-voting from voter coercion and vote buying.

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Can we convince AI to answer harmful requests?

19.12.24EPFL

New research from EPFL demonstrates that even the most recent Large Language Models (LLMs), despite undergoing safety training, remain vulnerable to simple input manipulations that can cause them to behave in unintended or harmful ways.

Anastasiia Koloskova © 2024 Anastasiia Koloskova - CC-BY-SA 4.0

IC PhD graduate recognized with the ELLIS PhD Award 2024

16.12.24EPFL

EPFL’s Anastasiia Koloskova has won this year’s ELLIS PhD award, which recognizes European dissertations in the area of artificial intelligence and machine learning-related fields.

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Spotlight

🎉 Congratulations to Professor Annie Hartley, currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor at Yale University, promoted to Adjunct Professor in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC).

🥳 We also look forward to welcoming Dr Samy Bengio, currently Senior Director for AI and Machine Learning Research at Apple Inc., joining our School as Adjunct Professor.

Event

22.01.2025 / 11:00 › 13:00

Imaging Lunch: Understanding Deep Neural Networks for Imaging Applications

Our in-house expert Daniel Sage will give a workshop on Understanding Deep Neural Networks for Imaging Applications during our next imaging lunch.

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Recruitment

Join the EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) for a faculty position in cyber-physical security, learning sciences, and in security & privacy. Position open at Tenure Track Assistant Professor level.