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The CoALA Lab is moving to Switzerland! 🇨🇭 After several amazing years at CMU’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute, this August I will join the faculty of EPFL’s School of Computer and Communication Sciences (@icepfl.bsky.social) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
We look forward to welcoming you to EPFL !🎉
Today, we are at Les Journées de la Durabilité, following a Café Scientifique by Francesco Mondada : Educating about sustainability, digital technology, and AI: where is the consistency?
#JournéesDeLaDurabilité #CaféScientifique #EPFL #sustainability #FrancescoMondada
The discussion explores the ethical challenges of AI-assisted decision-making, its environmental footprint, and whether the benefits truly outweigh the costs.
Followed by a round-table with Aimee van Wynsberghe, Katharina Frey, Exec. Dir. of ICAIN (ETHZ), Silvia Quarteroni, Chief Transformation Officer & Head of Innovation at SDSC (EPFL) and Rachid Guerraoui, professor at Distributed Computing Laboratory at EPFL, moderated by Julie Winz.
Next, "Repairing AI for Environmental Justice", a talk by Aimee van Wynsberghe, Professor of Applied Ethics of AI and Director of the Institute for Science and Ethics at University of Bonn.
Stéphanie Lacour, VP for Support to Strategic Initiatives at EPFL, opens the conference “When AI Meets Sustainability: Environmental, Social and Ethical Perspectives” with welcome remarks.
It’s not too late to sign up for the workshops for tomorrow during the Sustainability Days 2026!
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Professor Charlotte Bunne now presents AI in precision oncology.
Now continuing with the second session on Health innovation 👩⚕️🩻
Followed by Prof. Antoin Bosselut (@abosselut.bsky.social), presenting Apertus, a fully open, transparent and multilingual language model.
The first session about Digital & AI is starting now with Prof. Sabine Süsstrunk.
The Engineering Industry Day starts with the welcome & opening addresses of Prof. Anna Fontcuberta i Morral (@annafim.bsky.social)! #EngineeringIndustryDay
The IC Faculty is present today at the Engineering Industry day with our professors and a few stands
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📣💫 The 5th episode of AI Unplugged is available!
🔎This week, we dive into #AI & #cybersecurity with Kathrin Grosse, research scientist at #IBMResearch Zurich. Her work focuses on bridging the gap between AI security research and the problems AI users face every day.
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Meet Yihui Quek, EPFL assistant professor exploring what quantum computers should truly be used for. Bridging theory and experiment, she works on quantum error correction and algorithms to move the field beyond hype.
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EPFL's Laboratory for Experimental Museology has created the largest digital image of a single object ever produced: a terapixel #DigitalTwin of iconic #MurtenPanorama painting, on display in full 360° for the first time.
📍Bern History Museum
🗓️25.02.2026 - 09.05.2027
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Congratulations to our professors, Anastasia Ailamaki and Giovanni De Micheli, who have been named a member and international member respectively of the US National Academy of Engineering Class of 2026! 👏🥳
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![[AI Unplugged] Angela Meyer works to is using AI to help drive the energy transition](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qvloqsh4e2z63ncn2mpja3ie/bafkreifmsek6oo442wfjfomuko3ar7ulwfjvfzyv7edqsyfoi46qvzsohm)
📢 The final episode of #AIUnplugged is here!
Angela Meyer, assistant professor at TU Delf and @bfh-ch.bsky.social, explores how #AI is being harnessed for energy, weather, and climate applications; and what role it can play in accelerating #energytransition.⚡️🌍
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We finished the second day by @marcelsalathe.bsky.social giving the closing remarks 🎤
Then, Armand Joulin from Google Deep Mind presented the models that Google developed 💻👾
Followed by a talk by the Associate Professor Mahsa Shoarn on Integrated Neurotechnology 🧠⌨️
The final #AMLD2026 keynote starts now! 👩🏽💻
After a few opening remarks from @marcelsalathe.bsky.social , we follow the presentation from Grégoire Courtine and Jocelyne Bloch on Brain & AI 🩻
And Pierre Basqué, the CEO of Neural Concept
Showing how AI is reinventing engineering through smarter design and simulation
With Athanasios Fitsios, CTO of LargoAI
Talking about scaling an EPFL-born AI start-up revolutionizing the audiovisual industry with data-driven audience insights
The « Scaling-Up and AI Start-Up » presentation moderated by Anne Laure Gannac and organized by the IC School took place this morning
Prof. Charlotte Bunne opens the session with AI for Cellular Discovery 💻🧪
Now at AMLD, researchers will show how machine learning is transforming scientific research and engineering problem-solving. 👩💻🧪
As usual, the session ended with Q&A: tough questions about research & development, governance, trust, and whether Europe can lead in shaping AI that serves humanity. No easy answers, but the right conversations. 🤔💬
Highlights include: Aldo Podestà, CEO of Giotto.AI; Stef Van Grieken, co-founder and CEO of Cradle, demonstrating how to engineer biology using language models; and @andyyen.bsky.social, founder and CEO of @proton.me, offering critical perspectives on privacy in the AI era.
