AI enables a Who’s Who of brown bears in Alaska
A team of scientists from EPFL and Alaska Pacific University has developed an AI program that can recognize individual bears in the wild, despite the substantial changes that occur in their appearance over the summer season. This breakthrough holds significant promise for research, management, and conservation efforts.
Within five years we may have AI that does science
EPFL professor Robert West and invited professor Ágnes Horvát discuss how the rise of AI is transforming the dissemination and production of scientific knowledge.
ELLIS Award and Google Fellowship spotlight AI research at EPFL
Maksym Andriushchenko, who received his PhD from the Theory of Machine Learning (TML) laboratory in 2024, received the ELLIS PhD Award, and Francesco D’Angelo, a current TML doctoral student was awarded a prestigious Google PhD Fellowship.
Sabine Süsstrunk wins UK Royal Photographic Society Award
IC Dean and Director of the Imaging and Visual Representation Laboratory has been recognized with the 2025 Royal Photographic Society Award for Imaging Science.
Pierre Vandergheynst and Christophe Ballif win ERC Synergy Grants
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.
EPFL Professors named Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows
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.
EPFL AI Center and AITHYRA Initiate New Research Collaboration
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.
AI nutrition study finds “five every day” may keep the doctor away
In a new study using AI and machine learning, EPFL researchers have found that it’s not only what we eat, but how consistently we eat it that plays a crucial role in gut health.
An open-source AI platform to democratize protein design
Since its release last year, the open-source platform BindCraft, developed at EPFL, has already disrupted the world of protein design.
Studying collective bee behavior thanks to robotics
EPFL researchers are developing robotic beehive frames that help locate honey stores inside of beehives over time, without relying on cameras. The aim is to develop new observation tools to study honeybee behavior that better fit the bees’ natural way to occupy space compared to current methods.