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Which skills transfer naturally, which challenges emerge along the way, and how can scientists prepare for the shift?<br>\r\nIn this seminar, two speakers from different scientific backgrounds will share their personal journeys from academia to industry.They will offer honest, complementary perspectives on leaving university research, exploring the practical realities, challenges, and distinct working cultures of the industry sector.<br>\r\nThrough their experiences, participants will gain practical insights into recruitment processes, workplace expectations, and the opportunities available to scientists in industry.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Tristans's Bio: </strong>I got a PhD in aeronautical Engineering in 2011 from KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, with a thesis on Aerodynamics simulations of ground vehicles in unsteady crosswind.<br>\r\nAfter this, I worked with various Formula One teams from 2012 to 2025, starting as a CFD Engineer and moving to an Aerodynamicist role in 2014. 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Since 2025, I joined Hydrique Ingénieurs, in Lausanne, where I do numerical modeling for various projects related to water resources management and flood forecasting.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe talk will be followed by an informal apero!<br>\r\n ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-21T15:33:37", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-22T16:07:51", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "ME B1 10", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ME%20B1%2010", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/68096021948?pwd=DiE8amDIwYw1u3VtW2xWNGKtioKL2y.1", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/tristan.favre?lang=en\">Tristan Favre</a> (<a href=\"https://lfmi.epfl.ch/\">LFMI</a>, EPFL), Bertrand Cluzet (<a href=\"https://hydrique.ch/fr\">Hydrique Ingénieurs</a>)", "organizer": "MEGA.Seminar Organizing Committee", "contact": "<a href=\"http://[email protected]/\">Aliénor Riviere</a>, <a href=\"http://[email protected]/\">Danick Lamoureux</a>, <a href=\"http://[email protected]/\">Jacopo Bilotto</a>", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "Career Development, Transferable Skills", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120824/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/232/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/245/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71934, "title": "Future of Health Grant", "slug": "future-of-health-grant-3", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/future-of-health-grant-3", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33245/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33245/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33245/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-07-31", "end_date": "2026-07-31", "start_time": "11:00:00", "end_time": "12:00:00", "description": "<p>The <strong>Future of Health Grant</strong> is a support program dedicated to accelerating early‑stage digital health startups developing solutions relevant to the Swiss healthcare system.<br>\r\nCreated by CSS and the EPFL Innovation Park, it combines equity‑free funding, expert guidance and access to healthcare stakeholders to help founders progress from prototype to real‑world validation.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>For whom</strong>\r\n</p><ul>\r\n\t<li>For early‑stage digital health startups developing solutions that can be applied within the Swiss healthcare system.</li>\r\n\t<li>Eligible teams may be based in Switzerland or abroad, provided their innovation is relevant to Swiss clinical, operational or preventive care contexts.</li>\r\n\t<li>The program targets founders at the prototype, MVP or early validation stage.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>What you gain</strong>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>equity‑free financial support</strong> at three possible levels (CHF 10k, 30k or 50k), depending on project maturity and needs</li>\r\n\t<li>teams benefit from <strong>structured coaching</strong>, <strong>industry mentoring</strong></li>\r\n\t<li>access to <strong>paid specialists</strong> through the “CxO as a Service” model</li>\r\n\t<li>The program also facilitates <strong>real‑world validation</strong> opportunities with healthcare professionals, hospitals, insurers and ecosystem partners in Switzerland</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>How it works</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe program operates fully virtually and follows a milestone‑based approach. Selected startups receive regular guidance from experts in digital health, business development and regulatory pathways. Each team works toward defined objectives, with progress reviewed at set intervals. The program supports founders in strengthening their product, business model and clinical relevance.<br>\r\n<strong>Program context</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nLaunched in 2022, the Future of Health Grant is an initiative of <strong>CSS</strong> and the <strong>EPFL Innovation Park</strong>. 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With memory accounting for nearly 50% of server costs in modern data centres, provisioning large DRAM capacities significantly increases total cost of ownership (TCO). Tiered memory architectures combine memories with different capacities, latencies, and cost characteristics to improve cost efficiency while satisfying application performance requirements. Application performance in these architectures is highly sensitive to page placement decisions. Consequently, making informed placement decisions requires precise tracking of data access patterns and accurate identification of hot pages.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nExisting operating systems commonly rely on hardware-maintained access bits in page table entries to estimate memory access behaviour and identify hot data regions. They periodically scan the application's entire virtual address space to construct workload access profiles. However, linear scanning of page table access bits does not scale for modern applications with terabyte-scale memory footprints. Since scanning overhead scales with the memory footprint, a single full scan can take several seconds for workloads with large memory footprints. Reducing scanning frequency lowers monitoring overhead but also decreases profiling accuracy and responsiveness to changing access patterns, resulting in a fundamental tradeoff between profiling accuracy and monitoring overhead. Therefore, we need scalable, low-overhead mechanisms for access monitoring in next-generation memory management systems.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nIn this talk, I will discuss recent approaches to scalable memory access profiling in large-memory systems. Specifically, I will present works that use techniques such as adaptive sampling, region-based monitoring, and hierarchical profiling of page table trees to reduce and bound scanning overhead. <br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Selected papers</u><br>\r\ncoming soon", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-22T13:08:29", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-22T13:18:11", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BC 010", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20010", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "<br>\r\nArunkrishna Annai Madalam Sivasubramanian ", "organizer": "", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "EDIC candidacy exam", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120838/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/48/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71933, "title": "Controlling and Guiding Generative Models for Three-Dimensional Shape Optimization", "slug": "controlling-and-guiding-generative-models-for-thre", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/controlling-and-guiding-generative-models-for-thre", "visual_url": null, "visual_large_url": null, "visual_maxsize_url": null, "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-07-07", "end_date": "2026-07-07", "start_time": "11:00:00", "end_time": "13:00:00", "description": "<u>EDIC candidacy exam</u><br>\r\nExam president: Prof. Martin Rajman<br>\r\nThesis advisor: Prof. Pascal Fua<br>\r\nCo-examiner: Prof. Mark Pauly<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Abstract</u><br>\r\nOptimizing 3D shapes within the latent spaces of deep generative models is fundamental to computer assisted engineering, yet remains prone to a critical failure mode we term manifold drift: the tendency of gradient-based optimization to move latent vectors away from the manifold of valid shapes. This problem is exacerbated in state-of-the-art 3D shape generative models that operate in increasingly high-dimensional latent spaces where valid shapes occupy a vanishingly small fraction of the full space. Existing mitigation strategies, including latent regularization and flow-matching approaches, either sacrifice expressiveness, demand a difficult trade-off between objective guidance and generative fidelity that remains prone to manifold drift, or are computationally infeasible to scale to modern, large-capacity 3D shape models. We introduce a novel optimizer-corrector framework that alternates between gradient steps for objective minimization and guided flow matching to drive the latent state back to the valid shape manifold. By decoupling objective minimization from flow-based correction, optimizing freely and correcting strictly, this alternating design avoids inherent trade-offs, preserving geometric validity without sacrificing expressiveness while remaining computationally feasible on modern 3D shape models. We demonstrate its effectiveness across generative priors of varying complexity, from simple vector latent spaces to large-scale architectures across a variety of downstream optimization tasks, including aerodynamic drag reduction and object compliance optimization.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Selected papers</u><br>\r\n ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-22T13:14:54", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-22T13:14:54", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BC 333", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20333", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "Emilien Seiler", "organizer": "", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "EDIC candidacy exam", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120840/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/48/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71932, "title": "Failure-Aware LLM Serving for Agentic Workloads", "slug": "failure-aware-llm-serving-for-agentic-workloads", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/failure-aware-llm-serving-for-agentic-workloads", "visual_url": null, "visual_large_url": null, "visual_maxsize_url": null, "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-06-17", "end_date": "2026-06-17", "start_time": "09:00:00", "end_time": "11:00:00", "description": "<u>EDIC candidacy exam</u><br>\r\nExam president: Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki<br>\r\nThesis advisor: Prof. Anne-Marie Kermarrec<br>\r\nCo-examiner: Prof. Robert West<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Abstract</u><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Selected papers</u>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>ReAct (<a href=\"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.03629\" target=\"_blank\">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.03629</a>)</li>\r\n\t<li>Agentix (<a href=\"https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi26-luo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi26-luo.pdf</a>)</li>\r\n\t<li>Why do multi-agent systems fail? 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Classical black-box optimizers struggle in this regime, where evaluation budgets are tight and the feasible region is hard to characterize a priori. Our work investigates how the statistical expressivity of modern generative samplers can be leveraged in black-box optimization. We propose that these samplers enable efficient navigation of feasible sets and optimization of geometrically complex objectives under limited, unreliable observations. <br>\r\n<br>\r\nTwo complementary lines of work have already been studied. The main one, SPARROW, demonstrated that a sampler-driven optimizer can substantially reduce the number of function calls needed to maximize complex and unreliable objectives. A parallel line established that samplers can be steered to satisfy hard constraints without sacrificing the statistical diversity of the generated samples. Because SPARROW imposes minimal assumptions on the underlying sampler, these constrained samplers can drive it directly, opening a path to constrained black-box optimization.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nBuilding on these results, two directions are planned. The first is theoretical: a deeper mathematical study of sampler-driven optimization, drawing on the broader literature on sample-efficient black-box optimization, in order to derive stronger guarantees and more efficient algorithms. The second is applied: applying the methods to concrete domains and exploiting the structure those domains expose to sharpen performance beyond what a pure black-box treatment can achieve.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe applications of low-budget black-box optimization are diverse, including engineering design (e.g. aerodynamic shape optimization, mechanical components), scientific discovery (e.g. protein and molecule design under synthesizability and stability constraints), and the safety and security of opaque ML systems (e.g. query-efficient adversarial probing, red-teaming of black-box models).<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Selected papers</u><br>\r\n ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-22T12:53:32", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-22T13:09:04", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BC 333", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20333", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "Edouard Dufour", "organizer": "", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "EDIC candidacy exam", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120837/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/48/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71880, "title": "Imaging Seminar: Mapping cellular function with 3D single-molecule tracking and super-resolution microscopy", "slug": "imaging-seminar-mapping-cellular-function-with-3-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/imaging-seminar-mapping-cellular-function-with-3-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33202/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33202/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33202/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-06-25", "end_date": "2026-06-25", "start_time": "17:00:00", "end_time": "18:00:00", "description": "<strong><a href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepcadZ0LZTP-BpVwOnH2ljz6z4CtAFbXxIkfEL0Mpio-vrqQ/viewform?usp=header\">Registration</a><br>\r\n<br>\r\nAbstract</strong>: Cellular function is governed by the molecular organization and interactions at the nanoscale. In this talk, I will present our recent advances in 3D single-molecule tracking of dynamics and super-resolution imaging of nanoscale structures throughout mammalian cells, and showcase applications of our approaches for cellular imaging. I will describe our developments of light sheet microscopy platforms that reduce fluorescence background, photobleaching, and the risk of photodamaging sensitive samples. Combined with point spread function (PSF) engineering for nanoscale localization of individual molecules in 3D, deep learning for analysis of overlapping emitters, and a novel 3D nanoprinted microfluidic chip for environmental control, these platforms enable whole-cell multi-target 3D single-molecule super-resolution imaging with improved accuracy, precision, and imaging speed. I will also highlight our recent developments and applications of dCas9-based labels that enable flexible, long-term tracking of endogenous, non-repetitive genomic loci in live human cells with excellent spatiotemporal resolution. Using this approach, we demonstrate correlative tracking of gene dynamics and transcription for improved understanding of gene regulation. I will further showcase studies of disease mechanisms and novel therapies for the premature aging disorder Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome. Together, these imaging technologies provide a versatile toolkit for quantitative studies of molecular dynamics, nanoscale structures, and molecular mechanisms, enabling new insights into a broad range of chemical, biological, and biomedical questions related to cellular function and pathogenesis.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Bio: </strong>Dr. Gustavsson joined the faculty at Rice University in 2020 as a CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research and the Norman Hackerman-Welch Young Investigator Chair. At Rice, she founded and serves as Director of the Center for Nanoscale Imaging Sciences. Her research group strives to gain detailed information about cellular nanoscale structures, dynamics, and molecular mechanisms by designing and applying innovative and versatile optical imaging tools. Dr. Gustavsson received her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her graduate work focused on studying rhythms and dynamic responses in single cells by combining and optimizing techniques such as fluorescence microscopy, optical tweezers, and microfluidics. Upon completion of her graduate work, Dr. Gustavsson joined the group of Nobel Laureate W. E. Moerner at Stanford University as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research focused on the development and application of 3D single-molecule super-resolution microscopy for cellular imaging and included the implementation of light sheet illumination for optical sectioning of mammalian cells. Her work has been recognized with multiple honors, awards, and fellowships, most notably the FEBS Journal Richard Perham Prize, the 3-year Swedish Research Council International Postdoctoral Fellowship, the PicoQuant Young Investigator Award, the NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, the CPRIT Recruitment of First-Time Tenure-Track Faculty Members Award, the Scialog: Advancing Bioimaging Fellowship, the Edward S. and Fofo Lewis Chemistry Research Award, the NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA), and the NSF CAREER Award.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>The seminar is followed by an aperitif. </strong>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-13T13:52:19", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-22T10:54:26", "link_label": "Registration", "link_url": "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepcadZ0LZTP-BpVwOnH2ljz6z4CtAFbXxIkfEL0Mpio-vrqQ/viewform?usp=header", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BM 5202", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BM%205202", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Anna-Karin Gustavsson", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://imaging.epfl.ch/\">Center for Imaging</a>", "contact": "<a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/cecilia.carron\">Cecilia Carron</a>", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Sur inscription", "en_label": "Registration required" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120768/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/284/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71917, "title": "Securing Next Generation Cellular Networks", "slug": "securing-next-generation-cellular-networks", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/securing-next-generation-cellular-networks", "visual_url": null, "visual_large_url": null, "visual_maxsize_url": null, "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-06-09", "end_date": "2026-06-09", "start_time": "10:30:00", "end_time": "12:30:00", "description": "<u>EDIC candidacy exam</u><br>\r\nExam president: Prof. Nate Foster<br>\r\nThesis advisor: Prof. Mathias Payer<br>\r\nCo-thesis advisor: Prof. Haitham Al Hassanieh<br>\r\nCo-examiner: Prof. Thomas Bourgeat<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Abstract</u><br>\r\nThis thesis studies cellular security from a state-aware, system-level perspective spanning user equipment, access networks, core networks, and higher-layer voice and messaging services. These systems form a distributed, heterogeneous infrastructure whose security depends on complex and largely opaque implementations across the stack. Cellular infrastructure underpins everyday communication, emergency response, transport, and industrial systems, yet existing research often focuses on isolated components or stateless message handling, leaving state-dependent vulnerabilities and cross-component interactions insufficiently explored. <br>\r\n<br>\r\nThis thesis aims to develop methods to infer and explore protocol state in closed and partially observable implementations, combining active automata learning, dynamic analysis, and targeted testing. It begins with baseband firmware and core-network components, then extends across key trust boundaries such as the Radio Interface Layer, non-cellular interworking, and voice and messaging infrastructure. 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