Dimitri Van De Ville named IEEE Distinguished Lecturer

Published:01.02.21 — The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS) has appointed the School of Engineering Professor Distinguished Lecturer.

New treatment helps patients with a spinal cord injury

Published:28.01.21 — Spinal cord injuries disrupt the mechanism by which our bodies regulate blood pressure. A team of Swiss and Canadian scientists have developed a treatment that allows patients to regain control of their blood pressure, using targeted electrical spinal-cord stimulation. No medication is required. The team’s findings were published today in Nature.

MRI helps unravel the mysteries of sleep

Published:22.01.21 — Scientists at EPFL and the Universities of Geneva, Cape Town and Bochum have joined forces to investigate brain activity during sleep with the help of MRI scans. It turns out our brains are much more active than we thought.

TWO CNP labs awarded an eSeed grant from STI

Published:15.12.20 — Mahsa Shoaran and Diego Ghezzi were awarded eSeed interdiscpilnary projects among the five selected by the School of Engineering

DeepLabCut-Live! real-time marker-less motion capture for animals

Published:10.12.20 — Behavioral scientists at EPFL introduce DeepLabCut-Live!, a deep-learning tool that can enable real-time feedback studies on animal movement and posture. The software features “maker-less” real-time motion capture, can interface with lab hardware for neurological analysis, and is now available open source for use by researchers.