Mohammad RahiminejadMohammad Rahiminejad is a third-year Ph.D. student in the doctoral program of Mechanics at EPFL. His main research centers on building physics and examines how the thermo-hydrodynamic behavior of airflow in a ventilated cavity behind traditional and modern (BIPV) external claddings impacts the thermal performance of the entire building envelope. To tackle this topic, he takes a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses numerical analyses, CFD simulations, and experimental measurements. Before joining EPFL, he worked as a project manager assistant in Shiraz, Iran, on quite a few industrial projects including the design of the ventilation systems of Tehran-Shomal Freeway, design of the air conditioning systems of Shiraz subway, and design of the air exhaust and jet fan systems of the Shiraz longest underpass. He holds a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Iran, where he investigated water purification through monolayer graphene membranes using Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation. In his bachelor's degree in Shiraz University, he successfully achieved publishing a journal paper in the field of biomechanics that addressed the distribution of the pressure and velocity fields in the human upper airway during sneezing using CFD simulations.
Luisa PastoreWith a background in Architectural Engineering, Luisa specialised in sustainable architecture, bioclimatic design and comfort in buildings through a PhD from the University of Palermo (2013) followed by a Post-doc at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Performance-Integrated Design (LIPID) of EPFL (2014-2019).She is currently a Scientific Collaborator at the Smart Living Lab - EPFL and professor of Material Behaviour and Architecture and Energy Concept at the Ecole d’Architecture et d’Architecture d’Intérieur – idées House of Lausanne.She also works as Coordinator for the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction where she acts as a liaison between the Academic Committee and the core Management Office of the Foundation. Besides the coordination of the AC's agenda, she supports the organization of events and competitions for the promotion of innovative sustainable design solutions that can tackle today's environmental, socioeconomic, and cultural issues affecting the built environment.Since 2021 she has also joined Amber Lion Partners as Impact and Sustainability Advisor.
Lyesse LalouiDirector, EPFL Soil Mechanics LaboratoryDirector, EPFL Civil Engineering SectionEditor in Chief, ElsevierMember of the Swiss Academy of Engineering SciencesFounding Partner, Geoeg & MeduSoilActive in academic research in the following institutions: Lausanne, EPFL, Durham, Duke University, Nanjing, Hohai UniversityProfessor Lyesse Laloui teaches at EPFL, where he directs the Soil Mechanics Laboratory as well as the Civil Engineering Section. He is a founding partner of the international engineering company Geoeg, and the start-up MeduSoil. In addition, he is an adjunct professor at Duke University, USA and an advisory professor at Hohai University, China as well as honorary director of the International Joint Research Center for Energy Geotechnics in China.He is the recipient of an Advance ERC grant for his BIO-mediated GEO-material Strengthening project. Editor in Chief of the Elsevier Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment journal, he is a leading scientist in the field of geomechanics and geo-energy. He has written and edited 13 books and published over 320 peer reviewed papers; his work is cited more than 6000 times with an h-index of 39 (Scopus). Two of his papers are among the top 1% in the academic field of Engineering. He has given keynote and invited lectures at more than 40 leading international conferences. He has received several international awards (IACMAG, RM Quigley, Roberval) and delivered honorary lectures (Vardoulakis, Minnesota; G.A. Leonards, Purdue; Kersten, Minnesota). He recently acted as the Chair of the international evaluation panel of Civil and Geological Engineering R&D Units of Portugal.Nov. 2019 For further information visit www.epfl.ch/labs/lms/ ; geoeg.net ; medusoil.com Sneha JainSneha Jain is currently conducting her PhD thesis on the influence of ocular characteristics and colour of light on discomfort glare from daylight at workplaces. She completed her undergraduate degree in architecture and has a Master of Science in Building Science from International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India. Her Master thesis was on Daylight glare estimation for open-loop window roller shade control system to optimize daylight levels and visual comfort in a lab setup. She also worked as a research fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in Berkeley, California. Her current work focuses on improving the prediction of current discomfort glare models.
Colin Neil JonesColin Jones is an Associate Professor in the Automatic Control Laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He was a Senior Researcher at the Automatic Control Lab at ETH Zurich until 2011 and obtained a PhD in 2005 from the University of Cambridge for his work on polyhedral computational methods for constrained control. Prior to that, he was at the University of British Columbia in Canada, where he took a BASc and MASc in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. Colin has worked in a variety of industrial roles, ranging from commercial building control to the development of custom optimization tools focusing on retail human resource scheduling. His current research interests are in the theory and computation of predictive control and optimization, and their application to green energy generation, distribution and management.
Ian SmithPhD Université de Cambridge, 1982 Interêts 1 Contrôle actif de la forme des structures pour améliorer leur aptitude au service et leur déploiement 2 Structures biomimétiques (apprentissage, auto-diagnostic, auto-réparation) 3 Gestion de l'infrastructure par l'identification structurale 4 Applications avancées de l'informatique Plus de détails, voir https://www.epfl.ch/labs/imac/fr/recherche/smith_ian_fr/ Maher KayalMaher Kayal received M.S. and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) in 1983 and 1989 respectively. He has been with the Electronics laboratories of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) since 1990, where he is currently a professor and director of the Energy Management and Sustainability" section. He has published many scientific papers, coauthor of three text books dedicated to mixed-mode CMOS design and he holds eleven patents. His technical contributions have been in the area of analog and Mixed-signal circuits design including highly linear and tunable sensors microsystems, signal processing and green energy management. Prizes and Honors : Electronics Letters journal Premium Award 2013, Outstanding Paper Award? IEEE Mixdes 2013 Basil Papadias paper Award, IEEE Powertech 2013 Best Paper Awards, Mixdes 2013 Best Paper Awards, ICCAS 2012 Outstanding Paper Award- IEEE Mixdes 2012. Poland Section IEEE ED Chapter special award in 2011. Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching- 2009. The William M. Portnoy Award at the Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition , California Sept 2009. Best Paper Award - IEEE-Mixdes 2009. High Quality Paper - IEEE Power Tech Conference June 2009. Best Paper Award - IEEE-Mixdes 2007. Best Paper Award - IEEE-TTTC International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics - 2006. Best Application Specific Integrated Circuit at the International European Design and Test Conference ED&TC - 1997. Ascom Award for the Best Work in Telecommunication Fields 1990. Publications Books. Books: Methodology for the Digital Calibration of Analog Circuits and Systems, Marc Pastre & Maher Kayal. Springer Publisher- (ISBN 1-4020-4252-3)-2006. Structured Analog CMOS Design, Danica Stefanovic & Maher Kayal. Springer Publisher-(ISBN 978-1-4020-8572-7)-2008. Linear CMOS RF Amplifiers for Wireless Applications, Maher Kayal, Springer Publisher. (ISBN 978-90-481-9360-8)-2010. Coeditor of Microelectronics Education Kluwer Academic Publishers. (ISBN 1-4020-2072-4). -2004.
Thomas LieblingOriginaire de Greifensee (ZH), Thomas M. Liebling est né à La Paz (Bolivie) en 1942. Il obtient un diplôme d'ingénieur électricien, le titre de docteur et l'habilitation en mathématiques à l'EPFZ. Il est lauréat du Prix et de la Médaille de l'ETH, ainsi que du Prix Biennial de la Science de la GOR.
Après des séjours aux USA comme chercheur et professeur, notamment aux universités de Stanford et au Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute il entre à l'EPFL en 1980, en tant que professeur au Département de mathématiques. Il dirige le ROSO, un groupe formé d'une douzaine de collaborateurs se vouant à la modélisation, simulation et optimisation de systèmes physiques, biologiques, techniques et économiques, en particulier aux applications en logistique et productique.
Membre de 107 jurys de thèse de doctorat et habilitations, il en a été directeur de 39. En outre il a dirigé quelque 150 thèses de master et 350 projets de semestre.
Durant dix ans il est un des responsables du cours postgrade en informatique technique. Il dirige le cours doctoral en optimisation discrete organisé conjointement avec les Universités de Grenoble, Louvain-la-Neuve et Cologne. Il a présidé la Commission informatique de l'EPFL et le Conseil PHP, ainsi que de la Conférence des chefs de département. Chargé de créer le Prix EPFL des doctorats, il en préside le jury. Durant cinq ans il préside la commission de recherche de l'EPFL.
Auteur et coauteur de plusieurs ouvrages et de quelque 200 d'articles scientifiques, il a fonctionné comme Editeur départemental de Management Science, et Editeur associé notamment de Operations Research, Operations Research Letters, Mathematical Programming, Discrete Optimzatio. Il est membre du conseil scientifique du Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum. Il est membre individuel dela SATW, l'académie suisse des sciences techniques. Il a préside le Tucker Prize Committee de la Société Internationale de Programmation Mathématique, ainsi que le Symposium Advisory Committee. De 2003 à 2008 il est membre du Comité du Conseil de Fondation du Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique.
Rachid GuerraouiRachid Guerraoui has been affiliated with Ecole des Mines of Paris, the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique of Saclay, Hewlett Packard Laboratories and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has worked in a variety of aspects of distributed computing, including distributed algorithms and distributed programming languages. He is most well known for his work on (e-)Transactions, epidemic information dissemination and indulgent algorithms.
He co-authored a book on Transactional Systems (Hermes) and a book on reliable distributed programming (Springer). He was appointed program chair of ECOOP 1999, ACM Middleware 2001, IEEE SRDS 2002, DISC 2004 and ACM PODC 2010.
His publications are available at http://lpdwww.epfl.ch/rachid/papers/generalPublis.html 