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“I teach a subject that's notoriously hard to learn”

Published:14.10.19 — Romain Fleury, a tenure-track assistant professor who heads the Laboratory of Wave Engineering, has been named best teacher in electrical and electronic engineering.

A new initiative to enhance innovation in food and nutrition

Published:11.10.19 — The Swiss Canton of Vaud, EPFL, the Swiss Hospitality Management School in Lausanne (EHL Group) and Nestlé have joined forces to develop and promote a global innovation ecosystem on food and nutrition. The initiative will be launched in 2020 as the “Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley”, with the aim to further attract talent, start-ups and investment to the region.

DeepFly3D: the deep-learning way to design fly-like robots

Published:11.10.19 — EPFL scientists have developed a deep-learning based motion-capture software that uses multiple camera views to model the movements of a fly in three dimensions. The ultimate aim is to use this knowledge to design fly-like robots.

Controlling superconducting regions within an exotic metal

Published:11.10.19 — Researchers at EPFL have created a metallic microdevice in which they can define and tune patterns of superconductivity. Their discovery, which holds great promise for quantum technologies of the future, has just been published in Science.