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Do we really need big data centers for AI?

15 December, 2025

EPFL researchers have developed new software – now spun-off into a start-up – that eliminates the need for data to be sent to third-party cloud services when AI is used to complete a task. This could challenge the business model of Big Tech.

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Vinitra Swamy awarded 2025 Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize

12 December, 2025

Vinitra Swamy, the first graduate of the Machine Learning for Education Laboratory (ML4ED), has been awarded the Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize for 2025. This award is given each year to a doctoral student in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences for the best thesis.

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Three STI Professors win ERC Consolidator Grants

10 December, 2025

EPFL School of Engineering professors Sophia Haussener, Maryam Kamgarpour, and Li Tang have been awarded prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants.

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Horizon Santé 2025 explores the future of healthcare

26 November, 2025

EPFL, the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and Unisanté will team up on 28 and 29 November for Horizon Santé 2025 – a two-day event open to the public where experts will discuss key breakthroughs in the field of healthcare along with the societal issues shaping its future.

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Sabine Süsstrunk wins UK Royal Photographic Society Award

21 November, 2025

IC Dean and Director of the Imaging and Visual Representation Laboratory has been recognized with the 2025 Royal Photographic Society Award for Imaging Science.

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Pierre Vandergheynst and Christophe Ballif win ERC Synergy Grants

7 November, 2025

The European Research Council announced on Thursday that School of Engineering professors Pierre Vandergheynst and Christophe Ballif have been awarded ERC Synergy Grants to tackle major scientific challenges.

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EPFL Professors named Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows

6 November, 2025

Antoine Bosselut, Charlotte Bunne and Martin Schrimpf have been awarded prestigious 2025 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 fellowships, to focus on how to fulfill AI’s potential to dramatically benefit humankind.  

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University Latsis Award EPFL – 2025 – Philippe Schwaller

29 October, 2025

AI-Augmented Chemical Science through Language Models. The Laboratory of Artificial Chemical Intelligence (LIAC) is advancing how we discover and design molecules and materials by combining artificial intelligence (AI) with chemistry.

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EPFL AI Center and AITHYRA Initiate New Research Collaboration

24 October, 2025

The EPFL AI Center and AITHYRA have launched a new research collaboration to advance cross-institutional work at the interface of artificial intelligence, computational biology, and bioengineering.

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Reinventing computer technology for the benefit of data centers

21 October, 2025

In the largest computer systems project ever undertaken at EPFL, an international team of researchers has come up with a new way of building computers to help tackle the increasing challenges faced by data centers.

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