Martin OderskyMartin Odersky heads the programming research group at EPFL. His research interests cover fundamental as well as applied aspects of programming languages. They include semantics, type systems, programming language design, and compiler construction. The main focus if his work lies in the integration of object-oriented and functional programming. His research thesis is that the two paradigms are just two sides of the same coin and should be unified as much as possible. To prove this he has experimented a number of language designs, from Pizza to GJ to Functional Nets. He has also influenced the development of Java as a co-designer of Java generics and as the original author of the current javac reference compiler. His current work concentrates on the Scala programming language, which unifies FP and OOP, while staying completely interoperable with Java and .NET.
Martin Odersky got his doctorate from ETHZ, in 1989. He held research positions at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center from 1989 and at Yale University from 1991. He was then a professor at the University of Karlsruhe from 1993 and at the University of South Australia from 1997. He joined EPFL as full professor in 1999. He is associate editor of the Journal of Functional Programming and member of IFIP WG 2.8. He was conference chair for ICFP 2000, and program chair for ECOOP 2004 as well as ETAPS/CC 2007.
Volkan CevherVolkan Cevher received the B.Sc. (valedictorian) in electrical engineering from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, in 1999 and the Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA in 2005. He was a Research Scientist with the University of Maryland, College Park from 2006-2007 and also with Rice University in Houston, TX, from 2008-2009. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne and a Faculty Fellow in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rice University. His research interests include machine learning, signal processing theory, optimization theory and methods, and information theory. Dr. Cevher is an ELLIS fellow and was the recipient of the Google Faculty Research award in 2018, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 2016, a Best Paper Award at CAMSAP in 2015, a Best Paper Award at SPARS in 2009, and an ERC CG in 2016 as well as an ERC StG in 2011.
Christophe BallifChristophe Ballif is director of the Phototovoltaics and Thin Film Electronics Laboratoryb) (PV-Lab at the institute of microengineering (IMT) in Neuchâtel (part of the EPFL since 2009). The lab focus is on the science and technology of high efficiency heterojunction crystalline cells,so-called passivating contacts for solar cells, multi-junction solar cells include novel generation Perovskite on innovative optical high speed detector and on various macroelectronics application. It also deals with energy management with a focus on integration of solar electricity into the energy system. The PV-Lab has strongly contributed to technology transfer and industrialization of novel devices and full technology with numerous companies. Christophe Ballif graduated as a physicist from the EPFL in 1994, where he also obtained in 1998 his Phd degree working on novel PV materials. He accomplished his postdoctoral research at NREL (Golden, US) on compound semiconductor solar cells (CIGS and CdTe). He worked then at the Fraunhofer ISE (Ge) on crystalline silicon photovoltaics (monocrystalline and multi-crystalline) until 2003 and then at the EMPA in Thun (CH) before becoming full professor at the University of Neuchâtel IMT in 2004, taking over the chair of Prof. A. Shah. Since 2013, C.Ballif is also the director of the new CSEM PV-Center, also located in Neuchâtel. The CSEM PV-Center is focussing more on industrialisation and technology transfer in the field of solar energy, including solar electricity management and storage. At the core of the CSEM PV-center activities lies several "pilot lines" for various kinds of solar cells manufacturing, with a focus coating technologies, wet chemistry processes for crystalline silicon, metalisation techniques for solar cells, and a platform for developing "ideal packaging solutions and polymers" for PV modules. In addition, joined facitilites between CSEM and EPFL of over 800 m2 are available for modules manufacturing, measuring and accelerated aging. CSEM PV-center has also full team dedicated to storage and energy systems and operates a joined center with BFH in Biel for research on electrochemical storage. He (co-) authored over 500 journal and technical papers, as well as several patents. He is an elected member of the SATW, member of the scientific council of the Swiss AEE, and member of the board of the EPFL Energy center. In 2016, he recieved the Becquerel prize for his contributions to the field of high efficiency photovoltaics.
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.
Cyril CayronMes recherches: J'ai travaillé comme microscopiste/cristallographe/métallurgiste sur des projets très variés comme les aciers pour le nucléaire, les alliages titane et nickel pour l'aéronautique, les interconnections en cuivre pour la microélectronique, les piles à combustible haute et basse température, le silicium photovoltaïque hétérojonction et monolike, les batteries au lithium à base de LiFePO4 et silicium. Derrière la plupart de ces sujets de recherche appliquée se cachent des problèmes de recherche fondamentale comme celui lié aux transformations de phases. J'ai donc été amené à travailler sur ce sujet passionnant et j'ai pu démontrer que les variants cristallographiques générés par des transitions structurales forment une structure algébrique de groupoïde. Ces travaux ont mené au développement du logiciel de reconstruction des grains parents à partir de données EBSD appelé ARPGE et distribué dans plus de 20 pays. En 2013-2015 j'ai proposé un nouveau modèle cristallographique pour les transformations martensitiques fcc-bcc dans les aciers, comme une alternative à la théorie phénoménologique de la transformation martensitique. Ce modèle a été depuis étendu aux transformations fcc-hcp (type cobalt), bcc-hcp (type titane) et bcc-fcc (type laiton), ainsi qu’à differents modes de maclage mécanique dans les métaux fcc et hcp. Ce modèle à sphères dures montre que la transformation implique une «distorsion angulaire», forme plus générale que le cisaillement. Le modèle prévoit la possibilité que le plan d’interface de certaines macles mécaniques ne soit pas un plan invariant. Un tel cas de maclage « exotique » a été observé expérimentalement par EBSD en 2017 dans un monocristal de magnésium pur. Je travaille maintenant à définir de manière algébrique les concepts de variants (orientation, distortion, correspondance), et sur les types de macles mécaniques (I, II, et d'autres oubliés des théoriques classiques). Mon parcours : 2014-maintenant: Collaborateur scientifique à l'EPFL/LMTM, Neuchâtel, Suisse. J'aide le professeur Roland Logé dans ses travaux de recherche sur les liens entre les fortes déformations, les textures, les tailles de grains et les transformations de phases (diffusives et displacives). Je suis en charge de la salle de métallographie et des caractérisations SEM, EDS, EBSD, TEM, HRTEM. Je codirige trois thèses (Annick Baur, Margaux Larcher, Céline Guidoux). Je suis reviewer pour Acta Mater., Scripta Mater., Acta Cryst., J. Appl. Cryst., Mater. Charact., etc. 2000-2014: Ingénieur de recherche et responsable du groupe Nanocaractérisation, CEA/LITEN, Grenoble, France. 2012 : Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR). 1996-2000: Thèse sur l'étude par microscopie électronique de composites à matrice aluminium. Directeur de thèse Philippe Buffat, CIME, EPFL, Lausanne, Suisse. J'ai pu montrer un lien cristallographique entre différentes phases des alliages 2xxx et 6xxx et proposer pour la première fois une structure complète pour la phase beta prime des nanoprécipités. 1995-1996: Scientifique du contingent, travail sur les écrans électrochromes, COGIDEV, Rueil-Malmaison, France, fondé par M. André Giraud, ancien ministre de la défense et ancien ministre de l’industrie. 1992-1995: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy, France
Roland LogéRoland Logé is an associate professor at EPFL, with a primary affiliation to the Materials Institute, and a secondary affiliation to the Microengineering Institute.
After graduating in 1994 at UCL (Belgium) in Materials Engineering, he earned a Master of Science in Mechanics in 1995, at UCSB Santa Barbara (USA). He received his PhD at Mines Paristech-CEMEF (France) in 1999, where he specialized in metal forming and associated microstructure evolutions. After a postdoc at Cornell University (USA) between 1999 and 2001, he entered CNRS in France.
In 2008, he was awarded the ALCAN prize from the French Academy of Sciences, together with Yvan Chastel.
In 2009 he became head of the Metallurgy-Structure-Rheology research group at CEMEF.
In 2011, he launched a “Groupement de Recherche” (GDR), funded by CNRS, networking most of the researchers in France involved in recrystallization and grain growth.
In 2013, he became Research Director at CNRS.
In March 2014 he joined EPFL as the head of the Laboratory of Thermomechanical Metallurgy.
