Meet your Program Directors
Meet the experts you will be working with.
Meet IMD and EPFL contributing faculty
Professor of Electrical Engineering; Head of the Embedded Systems Lab & Associate VP for Centers and Platforms
David Atienza is an expert on the next-generation embedded systems for IoT working on smart wearables both for humans and a wider range of other objects including cars. He focuses on how these objects can interact with each other to create new business opportunities.
Professor of Robotics and Head of the Biorobotics Laboratory
Auke Ijspeert’ research intersects robotics, computational neuroscience, nonlinear dynamical systems and applied machine learning. He is interested in using robots to gain a better understanding of animal locomotion, to design novel mobile, walking robots and locomotion controllers.
Professor of Concurrent and Distributed Computing and Head of the Distributed Computing Laboratory
Professor Rachid Guerraoui’s current research at EPFL is devoted to concurrent and distributed computing, from multiprocessors to wide-area networks.
*École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Ranked #1 for universities less than 50 years old by the Times Higher Education, EPFL is one of the two Swiss federal institutes of technology and one of the Europe’s most innovative and dynamic institutes, offering exceptional resources and facilities for research. Working with top EPFL faculty and doctoral students, you will discover its innovation hub, home to more than 300 laboratories and research groups, and focus on driving innovation and technology transfer for your business.
