60 Notable alumni of
Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
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Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne is 1126th in the world, 401st in Europe, and 9th in Switzerland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 60 notable alumni from Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Mattia Binotto
- Occupations
- sports executiveengineer
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Mattia Binotto is an Italian motorsport engineer. Since 2025, Binotto has been the head of the Audi F1 Project. From 2019 to 2022, he served as the team principal of Italian Formula One team Scuderia Ferrari in Formula One.
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Leila Hatami
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- film actoractorfilm director
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Leila Hatami is an Iranian actress. Regarded as amongst the finest actresses of Iranian cinema and one of the most prominent performers in the 21st century, she is recognized for her realistic acting in drama films; gaining international fame for her role as Simin in Academy Award-winning film A Separation (2011), for which she received the Silver Bear for Best Actress.
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André Gorz
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- economistjournalistphilosopheropinion journalistpolitical scientist
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Gérard Horst, more commonly known by his pen names André Gorz ( French: [ɑ̃dʁe ɡɔʁts]) and Michel Bosquet ( French: [miʃɛl bɔskɛ]), was an Austrian-French social philosopher and journalist and critic of work. He co-founded Le Nouvel Observateur weekly in 1964. A supporter of Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist version of Marxism after the World War II, he became in the aftermath of the May 68 student riots more concerned with political ecology.
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Ole Scheeren
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- architect
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Ole Scheeren is a German architect, urbanist and principal of Büro Ole Scheeren with offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Berlin and Bangkok and was a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong from January 2010.
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Othman Benjelloun
- Enrolled in Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
- Studied in 1952-1959
- Occupations
- bankerengineerbusinesspersonentrepreneur
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Othman Benjelloun is a Moroccan billionaire financier. As chairman and chief executive officer of Bank of Africa (formerly BMCE Bank), he has led its expansion and internationalization across the African continent.
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Jacques Dubochet
- Occupations
- university teachermolecular biologist
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Jacques Dubochet is a retired Swiss biophysicist. He is a former researcher at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, and an honorary professor of biophysics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
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Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
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- military personnel
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Ernst II was the last reigning duke of Saxe-Altenburg and a German general active during World War I.
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Eva Son-Forget
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- researcherradiologistprofessions libérales et assimiléspolitician
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Eva Son-Forget, formerly known as Joachim Son-Forget, is a South Korean-born French politician who lives in Switzerland. She also holds Kosovar (since 2018) and Swiss citizenships (since 2020).
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Franck Riboud
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Franck Riboud is a French businessman. He served as the chairman of Danone.
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Metin Arditi
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- writerpatron of the artseconomistphysicist
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Metin Arditi, born 2 February 1945 in Ankara, is a French-speaking Swiss writer of Turkish Sephardi origin.
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Ali Khatir
- Born in
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Iran - Occupations
- sporting director
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Ali Ahmadi Khatir is a sports manager from Iran who is currently the chief executive officer of F.C. Nassaji Mazandaran. He was elected as the acting CEO of Esteghlal F.C. on July 17, 1402, and was dismissed from the position of CEO on May 12, 1403. Also, in 1401, he was the vice-chairman of Tractor S.C. board of directors and the former sports deputy of Esteghlal and at one point he was the executive deputy of the general secretary of the Iran Football Federation.
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Daniel Borel
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- computer scientistengineerentrepreneur
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Daniel Borel is a Swiss businessman and co-founder of technology firm Logitech.
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Corrado Böhm
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- university teacherlogiciancomputer scientistmathematicianengineer
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Corrado Böhm was an Italian computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", known especially for his contributions to the theory of structured programming, constructive mathematics, combinatory logic, lambda calculus, and the semantics and implementation of functional programming languages.
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André Borschberg
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- engineeraircraft pilotentrepreneur
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André Borschberg is a Swiss entrepreneur, explorer, pilot, and professional speaker. He is the co-founder and CEO of Solar Impulse. In July 2016, he co-piloted and successfully completed the first manned solar-powered flight to circumnavigate the Earth.
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Stefan Kudelski
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- industrialistaudio engineer
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Stefan Kudelski was a Polish audio engineer known for creating the Nagra series of professional audio recorders.
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Luigi Snozzi
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- teacherarchitect
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Luigi Snozzi was a Swiss architect, born in Mendrisio, Ticino. He worked in Locarno and Lugano.
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Askar Zhumagaliyev
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- politician
- Biography
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Asqar Quanyşūly Jūmağaliev is a Kazakh politician. He was the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 29 August 2017 until the government was dismissed on 25 February 2019. Jūmağaliev was the Deputy Minister for Investment and Development of Kazakhstan, chief executive officer of Kazatomprom, Kazakhstan's uranium mining company.
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Aurelio Galfetti
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- university teacherarchitect
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Aurelio Galfetti was a Swiss architect.
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Léonard Gianadda
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- engineerjournalistphilanthropistartist
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Léonard Gianadda was a Swiss journalist (TSR), engineer, and philanthropist. He was the founder and president of the Fondation Pierre Gianadda.
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Lucid Fall
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- singerfarmersongwriter
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Jo Yun-suk, known by the stage name Lucid Fall (루시드폴), is a South Korean singer-songwriter. He began his music career in 1997 as a member of the band Misoni (미선이), but has been most prolific as a solo artist, having released eleven studio albums since 2001. Lucid Fall's musical style incorporates folk, pop, and bossa nova. Since getting married and moving to Jeju Island in 2014 and becoming a tangerine orchardist, his output has also included ambient compositions. He uses a nylon guitar as his primary instrument and is known for his poetic lyrics.
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Ghita Mezzour
- Enrolled in Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
- Graduated with licentiate
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- engineerbusinesspersonpolitician
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Ghita Mezzour is the Moroccan Minister Delegate to the Head of Government in charge of the Digital Transition and Administration Reform. She was appointed to the role on 7 October 2021 as part of the cabinet led by Aziz Akhannouch.
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Aart de Geus
- Occupations
- businessperson
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Aart J. de Geus is a co-founder and executive chair of Synopsys Inc., where he was CEO until January 2024.
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Martin Vetterli
- Enrolled in Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
- 1983-1986 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- computer scientistresearcherengineerprofessor
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Martin Vetterli is a professor of engineering of École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, and was the former president of EPFL between 2017 and 2024. He was also formerly the president of the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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Alain Fuchs
- Enrolled in Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
- Studied chemical engineering
- Occupations
- university teacherchemist
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Alain Fuchs was a Swiss-born French chemist. A Doctor of Science and Professor of Chemistry, he specialised in molecular simulation. Fuchs served as the president of Chimie ParisTech - PSL from 2006 to 2010. He also served as the president of the French National Centre for Scientific Research from 2010 to 2017.' Fuchs became an Officer of the Legion of Honour in 2014.
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Daniel Brélaz
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- mathematicianpolitician
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Daniel Brélaz was a Swiss mathematician and politician, a member of the Green Party of Switzerland and the 93rd mayor of Lausanne from 2001 to 2016. In 1979, Brélaz became the first Green representative elected to sit in a national parliament.
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André Kudelski
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- engineer
- Biography
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André Kudelski is a Swiss engineer of Polish descent, who is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Kudelski Group.
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Vincent Ducrot
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- manager
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Vincent Ducrot is a Swiss public transport executive. The electrical engineer specialised in information technology was the managing director of Transports publics Fribourgeois (TPF) from 2011 to 2020, before being named as the new CEO of Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) in December 2019. He took up the position on 1 April 2020. The engineer with expertise in project management spent most of his career (from 1993 to 2011) at SBB, before becoming its CEO in 2020.
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Raquel Urtasun
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- university teacherartificial intelligence researcheracademic
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Raquel Urtasun OOnt is a Spanish-Canadian computer scientist, entrepreneur, and professor at the University of Toronto. She is the founder and CEO of Waabi, a company developing autonomous driving technology using artificial intelligence. Urtasun's research focuses on the application of artificial intelligence to physical systems, to make vehicles and other machines perceive the world more accurately and efficiently.
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Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
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- 1946-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Nadia Magnenat Thalmann is a computer graphics scientist and robotician and is the founder and head of MIRALab at the University of Geneva. She has chaired the Institute for Media Innovation at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from 2009 to 2021.
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Carolina Ödman-Govender
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- 1974-2022 (aged 48)
- Occupations
- researcherscience communicatorphysicist
- Biography
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Carolina Ödman-Govender was a Swiss physicist and academic who was professor of astrophysics at South Africa's University of the Western Cape. She was awarded the 2018 International Astronomical Union Special Executive Committee Award for Astronomy Outreach, Development and Education.
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Sarclo
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- singer-songwritersinger
- Biography
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Michel de Senarclens better known first as Sarcloret then today Sarclo is a French-born Swiss singer.
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Philippe Rahm
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- university teacherscientistarchitect
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Philippe Rahm is a Swiss-born architect and educator. He is the principal architect in the office of Philippe Rahm architectes, based in Paris, France. His work, which extends the field of architecture from the physiological scale of the body to the climatic scale of the city has received an international audience in the context of sustainability.
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Robert Mardini
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- humanitarian
- Biography
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Robert Mardini is a Lebanese-Swiss humanitarian and public health leader. He took up office as Director General of the University hospital of Geneva in September 2024; he previously served as Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from 2020 to 2024.
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Maximilian Busser
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- business executive
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Maximilian Büsser is a Swiss businessman and founder of the watch brand MB&F. Prior to his work at MB&F he was the CEO of Harry Winston Rare Timepieces and worked at Jaeger-LeCoultre (1991–1998). Büsser has lived in Dubai since 2014.
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Luc Recordon
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Luc Recordon is a Swiss politician. He is a member of the Green Party of Switzerland and represented Vaud in the Swiss National Council from 2003 to 2007 and in the Swiss Council of States from 2007 to 2015.
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Olivier Français
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- politician
- Biography
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Olivier Français is a Swiss politician who is a member of the Council of States of Switzerland.
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Alexandre Julliard
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- computer scientistsoftware developerprogrammer
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Alexandre Julliard is a computer programmer who is best known as the project leader for Wine, a compatibility layer to run Microsoft Windows programs on Unix-like operating systems.
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Pablo Rodriguez
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez is a Spanish computer scientist and researcher, who is best known for his research in the mid-2000s on peer-to-peer file sharing and user-generated content. After working for technology and communications companies AT&T and Microsoft Research, Rodriguez returned to Spain in 2006 to become the research director for telecommunications provider Telefónica. In 2010 he took a position as an adjunct professor at Columbia University in New York City.
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Andrew B. Lippman
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United States - Occupations
- computer scientistengineer
- Biography
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Andrew Benjamin Lippman is a senior research scientist at the MIT Media Lab as well as a Co-Director of various chairs at the institute. He has a more than thirty-year history at MIT. His work at the Media Lab has ranged from wearable computers to global digital television. Currently, he heads the Lab's Viral Communications group, which examines scalable, real-time networks whose capacity increases with the number of members.
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Reymond Clavel
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- engineer
- Biography
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Reymond Clavel was a Swiss roboticist and professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He is one of the pioneers in the development of parallel robots, and the inventor of the notable Delta robot. Clavel’s research in robotics, particularly in parallel and high-precision mechanisms, helped pioneer the field of parallel robotics in the 1980s and led to numerous practical applications and awards.
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Tej Tadi
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- neuroscientist
- Biography
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Tej Tadi is the CEO of MindMaze, a company that generates 30M a year in revenue from its computing platform. The company is valued at over $1.6 billion.
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Roland Siegwart
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- university teacher
- Biography
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Roland Siegwart, is a Swiss robotics expert. He is director of the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) of the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zurich.
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Hubert Girault
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- researcherchemist
- Biography
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Hubert Girault is a Swiss chemist and is Emeritus Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (1992-2022). He was the director of the Laboratoire d'Electrochimie Physique et Analytique, with expertise in electrochemistry at soft interfaces, Lab-on-a-Chip techniques, bio-analytical chemistry and mass-spectrometry, artificial water splitting, CO2 reduction, and redox flow batteries.
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Jean-Luc Sandoz
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- engineerdocent
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Jean-Luc Sandoz is a French-Swiss engineer and an expert in wood construction. He is the founder of several companies in the field of engineering, industrialization, construction and expertise, all related to wood. Formerly, he was a professor and lecturer at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).
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Inès Lamunière
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- university teacherarchitect
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Inès Lamunière, is a Swiss architect, b. 25 October 1954, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Minh Quang Tran
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- scientist
- Biography
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Minh-Quảng Trần is a professor at the EPFL.
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Charles Kleiber
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- officialcivil servantarchitect
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Charles Kleiber was a Swiss government official who served as a state secretary.
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Nikolaus Correll
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- computer scientistelectrical engineeruniversity teacher
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Nikolaus Correll is a roboticist and a full professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the Department of Computer Science with courtesy appointments in the departments of Aerospace, Electrical and Materials Engineering. Nikolaus is the faculty director of the Interdisciplinary Research Theme on Multi-functional Materials at the College of Engineering and Applied Science, and the founder and CTO of Robotic Materials Inc.
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Murat Kunt
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- university teacher
- Biography
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Murat Kunt is a Swiss scientist of Turkish origin. He is known for his research and teaching in the general area of digital signal processing and image and video processing in particular. He is the author of more than 240 publications, 15 books and 16 patents. He played a pioneering role in digital image and video compression. Among the 75 doctoral students he supervised, 20 are now university professors.
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Valentine Python
- Enrolled in Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
- In 2010 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- climatologistpolitician
- Biography
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Valentine Python is a Swiss climatologist and a member in the National Council of Switzerland of the Green Party of Switzerland (GPS).
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Francesco Mondada
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- engineerresearcher
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Francesco Mondada is a Swiss professor in artificial intelligence and robotics. He earned a master's degree in Microengineering at the EPFL in 1991, and a PhD degree in 1997. He is one of the creators of the Khepera and directed the design of the S-bot, the e-puck, the marXbot and the Thymio mobile robots. Together, these robots are mentioned in more than 9000 research articles. In particular, the Khepera robot is a milestone in the field of bio-inspired and evolutionary robotics.
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Lambert Sonna Momo
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- expertinventorentrepreneur
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Lambert Sonna Momo is a Swiss computer scientist of Cameroonian origin. He is known for his work in electronic identification and authentication through biometrics.
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Aymeric Sallin
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- business executive
- Biography
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Aymeric Sallin is the founder and CEO of NanoDimension, a nanotechnology-focused venture and capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley and Switzerland.
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Olivier Zuchuat
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- film director
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Olivier Zuchuat is a Swiss film director.
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Christophe Caloz
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- engineerresearcher
- Biography
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Christophe Caloz, is a researcher and professor of electrical engineering and physics at KU Leuven. He graduated from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he received a Diploma of electrical engineering in telecommunications in 1995 and a Ph.D. in electromagnetics (photonic crystals) in 2000. From 2001 to 2004, he was a Postdoctoral Research Engineer at the Microwave Electronics Laboratory of University of California at Los Angeles. He was then a professor and a Canada Research Chair at the École Polytechnique de Montréal until 2019, before joining KU Leuven where he is the director of the Meta Research Group.
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Sabine Hauert
- Years
- 1983-.. (age 43)
- Enrolled in Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherroboticist
- Biography
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Sabine Hauert is Professor of Swarm Engineering in the Bristol Robotics Laboratory at the University of Bristol where her research investigates swarm robotics. Previously she worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.
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Bertrand Cardis
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Bertrand Cardis is a Swiss sailor. He competed in the Flying Dutchman event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
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Georges Meylan
- Occupations
- astrophysicist
- Biography
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Georges Meylan is a Swiss astronomer, born on July 31, 1950, in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was the director of the Laboratory of Astrophysics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, and now a professor emeritus of astrophysics and cosmology at EPFL. He is still active in both research and teaching.
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Karin Schnass
- Enrolled in Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- computer scientistmathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Karin Schnass is an Austrian mathematician and computer scientist known for her research on sparse dictionary learning. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Innsbruck.
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Jean-Louis Scartezzini
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Jean-Louis Scartezzini is a Swiss building physicist specialized in day lighting and solar buildings. He is a professor of physics at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and the head of the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB) since 1994.
