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Willy ZwaenepoelThe legacy of a great Dean

Dean School I&C

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2002: a key hire for EPFL

The Legacy of a Great Dean Track Record

-> A PhD from Stanford University

-> Professor at Rice University and Director of the Computer systems Laboratory

-> A brilliant scientist, fellow of the IEEE

-> Recipient of the Rice Graduate Student Association Teaching and Mentoring Award

Professor Willy Zwaenepoel

… and Dean of I&C since October 2002, the first Dean recruited outside EPFL

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The true reason for his coming to EPFL

The Legacy of a Great Dean Personal Interests

-> European cuisine

“Everything that you cannot eat in American restaurants… …rabbit, duck, pigeon”

-> Football

… and especially the Belgian football team

“Les Diables Rouges”

Le Matin: 26/09/2002

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The legacy: feedback from international experts

-> The changes to the School of I&C in the six years since the last Audit Report in November 2001 are remarkable. (…) The School is “nearly unrecognizable” from the last review.

-> I&C is among the top five in computer and communication sciences in Europe, and arguably, in several areas, among the top three.

-> The Audit Committee believes that it is conceivable for I&C to achieve its goal of being the best among all European schools and among the top 10 worldwide (…).

The Legacy of a Great Dean Audit I&C 2007

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Outstanding Faculty recruitments

The Legacy of a Great Dean Track Record

Senior Faculty

Pascal Fua

Pierre Dillenbourg

Amin Shokrollahi

Matthias Grossglauser

Thomas Henzinger

Giovanni de Micheli

Monika Henzinger

Jeffrey Huang

Arjen Lenstra

Bernard Moret

Anastasia Ailamaki

Babak Falsafi

Mark Pauly

Christoph Koch

Junior Faculty

Dejan Kostic

Christina Fragouli

George Candea

Viktor Kuncak

Matthias Seeger

The Audit Committee was impressed with the I&C faculty. As a whole, the faculty is committed to world‐class leadership in research and strong and effective undergraduate and graduate educational programs.Evaluation Committee Report, Audit I&C (2007)

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ERC Grants

Wulfram Gerstner

Dejan Kostic

Amin Shokrollahi

Pascal Fua

Christina Fragouli

Mark Pauly Michael Gastpar *

Martin OderskyMartin Vetterli

* About to join EPFL

The Legacy of a Great Dean Excellence

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Academic fellows

The Legacy of a Great Dean Excellence

ACM fellows

Jean-Pierre HubauxGiovanni de MicheliMartin OderskyMartin VetterliWilly Zwaenepoel

IEEE Fellows

Martin HaslerJean-Pierre HubauxJean-Yves Le BoudecGiovanni de MicheliBixio RimoldiAmin ShokrollahiStefano SpaccapietraMartin VetterliWilly Zwaenepoel

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photo: Thomas Jantscher

Alcan

Nestlé

Cisco

Logitech

NokiaDebiopharm

Crédit Suisse

Elca

Develop interactions with industry

Innovation and Tech Transfer The Innovation Square

-> Concrete interactions with the School of I&C

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Kandou – the 1000th invention from EPFL

How mathematics come to the rescue of electronics, enabling processors that are smaller, faster and more energy-saving

Invented by Harm Cronie and Amin Shokrollahi from the EPFL Algorithmics Lab

Innovation and Tech Transfer Inventions

Creative Faculty2010

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Innovation and Tech Transfer Start-ups

Recent I&C start-ups

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Innovation and Tech Transfer Entrepreneurs

I&C and the Innogrants

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The legacy of a great Dean

A new building

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Some challenges

The School of I&C Today and Tomorrow

-> Creation of a sense of belonging to EPFL

-> Recognition of the importance of teaching, EPFL’s first mission

-> Mentoring “Tenure Track” Assistant Professors

-> Increased interaction with the rest of EPFL (Blue Brain, bioinformatics, computational science, etc.)

-> Intensification of the interactions with industry

-> Creation of the Goggles of tomorrow

… I need your help for the 2 following projects

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MetaMedia Center & Montreux Jazz Café

-> A space to experiment digital archives

-> A place to (re)discover the Montreux Jazz Festival archives

-> A potential for future developments (virtual exhibitions, film archives, …)

-> A Café with a different atmosphere

-> A backstage for live concerts

Culture & ArtsEPFL Campus 2020 Campus 2020Perspectives

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Campus 2020Perspectives

-> An ambitious project dedicated to teaching

-> A new concept of interdisciplinary, project-based discovery learning laboratories for advanced BS & MS students

-> An attempt to enrich EPFL initial urbanism

Concept and design by Dominique Perrault Architects

Teaching Lab @ EPFL

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Teaching Lab @ EPFL

Campus 2020Perspectives

Build tomorrow’s EPFL …

… for our students

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A warm “thank you” to Willy

-> A visionary Dean, fully committed to both I&C and EPFL

-> A hunter

-> A clear thinker

-> A tough but honest leader

-> A great colleague

Professeur Willy Zwaenepoel

… enjoy your well deserved sabbatical

and come back fast as EPFL needs you!

The School of I&C Today and Tomorrow

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Welcome to Martin Vetterli

-> A brilliant scientist: recipient of an advanced ERC grant

-> A great teacher

-> A successful entrepreneur

-> Vice-President since October 1st, 2004

-> … and Dean of I&C from March 1st, 2011

Professor Martin Vetterli

The School of I&C Today and Tomorrow

« It’s lonely on the top. No one has on their list of things to do:be nice to the Dean or the Provost today or what can I do to support them in their endeavors ? »

Denice Denton, past Chancellor of UCSC

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Thank you for your attention

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