IC and STI had the pleasure of hosting the Honorary Lecture of Professor Giovanni De Micheli, bringing together his former students who travelled from afar, as well as researchers and faculty members, to celebrate his pioneering research and academic excellence. 📚
Through his lecture, Carrying the Torch, Prof. De Micheli shared reflections on scientific collaboration, the evolution of technology, and the importance of passing knowledge on to future generations.
Thank you Nanni, for everything you have given us throughout your career to our students, to the scientific community, and to EPFL. ⚡️
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Currently doing her master’s thesis at McGill, she’ll share a glimpse of her life abroad, her experience in Montreal, and the exciting project she’s working on! 🇨🇦
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Join us next Tuesday, 12 May 2026, for a special evening at EPFL featuring an honorary lecture by Prof. Giovanni De Micheli: *Carrying the Torch*.
The program includes opening remarks by the IC and STI School Deans, a Q&A session, and the presentation of the Honorary Diploma and Medal.
📍 CO 2
🕕 18:00 – 19:30
A unique opportunity to hear insights from one of the leading figures in electrical engineering and computer science.
🏆 LakeCTF Finals took place at EPFL last week in 🇨🇭
80 participants from 16 countries gathered to take on the challenge 💻🔥 And for the first time at a major CTF event, generative AI was completely banned during the competition.
The competition concluded with “pls carry” taking 1st place, followed by “.;.;.” and “FluxFingers”.
🥇 “pls carry”
🥈 “.;.;.”
🥉 “FluxFingers”
Huge congratulations to all teams, and a massive thank you to everyone who helped make this edition unforgettable 🙌. Special shoutout to the organizing team, challenge authors, volunteers, and event partners 💙
LakeCTF is proudly organized by the EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences and the @polygl0ts_ctf team.
#EPFL #LakeCTF #CyberSecurity #CTFCommunity #CaptureTheFlag
🚀 pls carry :3 wins prestigious EPFL cybersecurity competition LakeCTF
The fourth edition of Lake CTF brought ten teams to EPFL to take part in a jeopardy-style security hacking contest – with no LLMs allowed.
The event brings together 80 participants in 10 teams who come to EPFL, where they compete to find text strings, called ‘flags’, secretly hidden in purposefully vulnerable programs or websites. The more they find, the better their score, and at the end of an eight-hour nonstop day of roughly 20 challenges, one team is declared the winner.
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🚀EPFL researchers successfully mimic dyslexia in an AI brain
Dyslexia, the world’s most common learning disorder impacting reading, spelling and writing, is estimated to affect up to 20% of the global population. Until now, traditional approaches to studying dyslexia, such as behavioral and neuroimaging methods, have provided valuable insights but remain limited in their ability to test the underlying mechanisms of reading impairments.
Now, researchers from EPFL’s NeuroAI Lab, part of the Schools of Computer and Communication Sciences and Life Sciences have modelled dyslexia using next-generation Vision Language Models, that can fully model the whole pipeline from seeing words to processing and understanding the context.
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Last Thursday CLIC organized the IC Faculty Dinner in the BC Hall 🌷
This year was extra special as we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the event 🥳
From the apero to the delicious dinner, the games, karaoke, and all the moments shared together… we hope you had as much fun as we did 🫶
Thank you all for coming and making this night so memorable ✨
📸 @mlmo.bw & @mehdi_ezzina
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Easter Break Photo Recap 🌷🐰
A little look back at the Easter break organized by CLIC and the IC-COM team!
We hope you enjoyed the donuts, the egg hunt, and this well-deserved pause with us 🍩✨
Thank you to everyone who came by and made it such a fun moment ⭐️
Good luck for the rest of the semester, and see you again very soon ❤️💙
📸 @ardicerk.png@cata.clombe
📢 Bonne nouvelle pour la communauté @epflcampus , et plus particulièrement la faculté @icepfl . Depuis janvier 2026, toutes les publications de l’ACM sont en libre accès (Open Access). Ce nouvel accord de la @epfllibrary garantit aussi le maintien de l’accès en lecture à l’ACM Digital Library.
Plus d’information : go.epfl.ch/acm-epfl-2026 (lien en bio!)
Back to school already? We’ve got the perfect excuse to take a break 🍩✨
CLIC & IC-COM team are inviting you to a special Easter break 🌷🐰
Join us this Monday (April 13th) in the INM Hall from 3:30pm and until everything’s eaten 🥳
Enjoy delicious Easter-themed donuts from Krispy Kreme and keep your eyes open… 5 hidden eggs will be waiting around the hall to get special prizes 🐣🌼
Come grab a donut, hunt for eggs, and take a well-deserved break.
See you there!
