Lenka ZdeborováLenka Zdeborová is a Professor of Physics and of Computer Science in École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where she leads the Statistical Physics of Computation Laboratory. She received a PhD in physics from University Paris-Sud and from Charles University in Prague in 2008. She spent two years in the Los Alamos National Laboratory as the Director's Postdoctoral Fellow. Between 2010 and 2020 she was a researcher at CNRS working in the Institute of Theoretical Physics in CEA Saclay, France. In 2014, she was awarded the CNRS bronze medal, in 2016 Philippe Meyer prize in theoretical physics and an ERC Starting Grant, in 2018 the Irène Joliot-Curie prize, in 2021 the Gibbs lectureship of AMS. She is an editorial board member for Journal of Physics A, Physical Review E, Physical Review X, SIMODS, Machine Learning: Science and Technology, and Information and Inference. Lenka's expertise is in applications of concepts from statistical physics, such as advanced mean field methods, replica method and related message-passing algorithms, to problems in machine learning, signal processing, inference and optimization. She enjoys erasing the boundaries between theoretical physics, mathematics and computer science.
Sara Sonia Formery RegazzoniAprès son diplôme d'architecte à l'Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne en 2008, et des expériences auprès de bureaux d’architecture de l’arc lémanique en tant que responsable pour des projets à différentes échelles, Sara Formery a partagé son activité professionnelle entre une pratique indépendante (formerykössler Sàrl) et l’enseignement du projet d’architecture.
Forte de cette expérience croisée qui lui a permis d’approfondir et d’acquérir d’indispensables connaissances, elle mène depuis 2018 la recherche doctorale «Quartiers rhodaniens en transition», sous la direction du Prof. Emmanuel Rey au sein du Laboratoire d’Architecture et Technologies Durables (LAST) de l’EPFL.
Philippe JansonPhil Janson got a BS in EE from the University of Brussels and MS, EE, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1976 to 1996 he held a tenured visiting lecturer position in Operating Systems at the U. of Brussels. In 1976 he joined IBM Research in Zurich, where he worked initially on high-speed packet switches and the IBM Token Ring. In 1986 he worked on LAN gateways at the IBM Development Lab in Austin, Texas. Back in Zurich in 1987 he managed several projects on heterogeneous networking and IT security. In 1995 he became head of the Computer Science Department at IBM Research's Zurich Lab. In 1995 he was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology, of which he was Vice President in 2000 and 2001, serving at the same time as Program Manager for University Relations at IBM Research's Zurich Lab. From 1995 to 2007 he was also Relationship Manager for Europe between IBM Research and the IBM Financial Services Sector. In 2001 he became a member of the Advisory Board of the Informatics and Communication Systems Dept of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technolgy in Lausanne (EPFL) and became a member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Foundation. From 2002 to 2004 he returned to an active research career as Senior Technical Staff Member, working on Web Services security. From 2004 to 2007 he was Program Manager for leveraging IBM Research Assets in IBM Global Services engagements. From 2007 to 2009 he managed a Research team focusing on user-centric identity and authentication technologies. In 2010 he retired from IBM then joined EPFL as a Professor, teaching IT security engineering and Introductory Computer Science until retiring in 2017. 2018-2019 he developed and gave cyberdefense courses for the Swiss armed forces. He holds a dozen patents and wrote over 50 papers in the areas of IT security and distributed systems as well as a book on Operating Systems. He received a Harkness Fellowship in 1972, and a number of IBM Invention and Outstanding Technical Contribution Awards since then. He was a member of the ACM and of the IEEE Computer Society.
Emre TelatarI. Emre Telatar received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1986. He received the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1988 and 1992 respectively. In 1992, he joined the Communications Analysis Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories (later Lucent Technologies), Murray Hill, NJ. He has been at the EPFL since 2000.
Emre Telatar was the recipient of the IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award in 2001. He was a program co-chair for the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory in 2002, and associate editor for Shannon Theory for the IEEE Information Theory Transactions from 2001 to 2004. He was awarded the EPFL Agepoly teaching prize in 2005.
Emre Telatar's research interests are in communication and information theories.
Michael Christoph GastparMichael Gastpar is a (full) Professor at EPFL. From 2003 to 2011, he was a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, earning his tenure in 2008. He received his Dipl. El.-Ing. degree from ETH Zürich, Switzerland, in 1997 and his MS degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, in 1999. He defended his doctoral thesis at EPFL on Santa Claus day, 2002. He was also a (full) Professor at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. His research interests are in network information theory and related coding and signal processing techniques, with applications to sensor networks and neuroscience. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is the co-recipient of the 2013 Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. He was an Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer (2009-2011). He won an ERC Starting Grant in 2010, an Okawa Foundation Research Grant in 2008, an NSF CAREER award in 2004, and the 2002 EPFL Best Thesis Award. He has served as an Associate Editor for Shannon Theory for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2008-11), and as Technical Program Committee Co-Chair for the 2010 International Symposium on Information Theory, Austin, TX.
Jiancheng YangI am a 4th-year PhD student in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, advised by Prof. Bingbing Ni. I received BEng and MEng degree in the Department of Automation from the same university. Enrolled in a double master degree program, I spent 2 years in France with an Engineer degree. I was a visiting research fellow in Visual Computing Group at Harvard University. I am now visiting EPFL CVLAB, working with Prof. Pascal Fua.I focus on medical image analysis, 3D computer vision and trustworthy machine learning, with a clinical emphasis on lung cancer and thoracic diseases. I have (co-)first-authored more than 10 papers on top-tier journals / conferences, e.g., Cancer Research, CVPR, MICCAI and NeurIPS. I was a reviewer for more than 10 prestigious venues, a top-ranking participant for several AI competitions, and the lead organizer for MICCAI 2020 RibFrac Challenge.Updated on April, 2021.
