- Patrick Aebischer
Doctorate in Medicine (1983), Geneva University, Switzerland. From 1984 to 1992, Patrick Aebischer held various Faculty positions at Brown University, Providence, USA; In 1992, he returned to Switzerland as a Professor at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and Director of the Gene Therapy Center of the CHUV, the Lausanne University Medical School. Since 2000, Patrick Aebischer is the President of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
- Dario Floreano
Dario Floreano is the professor of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LIS) of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. He is one of the pioneers in evolutionary robotics, a research field in which robots are evolved using artificial evolution. His more recent work involves several types of robots, such as the wheeled khepera, S-bots, Koala, and e-Puck robots as well as micro-flying robots. He has also initiated the Talking Robots podcast series, …
- Jean-Daniel Nicoud
Jean-Daniel Nicoud is a Swiss computer scientist, notably inventor of the computer mouse with an optical encoder and of the CALM Common Assembly Language for Microprocessors. He obtained a degree in physics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 1963. Around 1965, he became interested in logical systems. He obtained his PhD at the EPFL in 1970 and became a professor in 1973.
- Claude Nicollier
Claude Nicollier is the first astronaut from Switzerland and has flown on several Space Shuttle missions. He was appointed full professor of Spatial Technology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on 28 March 2007.
- Serge Vaudenay
Serge Vaudenay is a well-known French cryptographer. Serge Vaudenay entered the École Normale Supérieure in Paris as a "normalien" student in 1989. In 1992, he passed the "agrégation" in mathematics. He did his PhD at the computer science laboratory of École Normale Supérieure, and defended it in 1995 at University Paris 7; his advisor was Jacques Stern. From 1995 to 1999, he was researcher at CNRS.
- Stefan Kudelski
Stefan Kudelski is a Polish audio engineer, famous for creating the top quality Nagra series of professional audio recorders. He was born in Warsaw in February 27, 1929 in a family with engineering background. In 1939 the family fled the war, moving to Hungary, France and later to Switzerland. He studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and constructed his first tape recorder there, as a student project.
- George de Mestral
George de Mestral was an electrical engineer who invented Velcro. Born in Nyon, between Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland, De Mestral designed a toy airplane at age twelve and patented it. He attended the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. After graduation he worked in the machine shop of an engineering company. In his spare time he was an amateur mountaineer, and while he was enjoying the outdoors, burrs often got stuck to his wool hunting pants and his dog's fur.
- Alexandre Julliard
Alexandre Julliard is a computer programmer who is best known as the project leader and Benevolent Dictator for Life for Wine, a compatibility layer to run Microsoft Windows programs on Unix-like operating systems. Julliard studied computer science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. He spent most of the 1990s working on embedded systems. He now works full-time on Wine for CodeWeavers. Alexandre enjoys astronomy and currently lives in Lausanne, …
- Roger Ainsworth
Roger Ainsworth is Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford and Professor of Engineering Science in the University of Oxford. Ainsworth was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School. After completing an apprenticeship at Rolls-Royce Aeroengines, he studied at Jesus College, Oxford (BA, MA, DPhil). After completing his DPhil in 1976 he worked for Rolls-Royce and the Atomic Energy Research Establishment.
- Rudi Pauwels
Rudi Pauwels (b. 1960) is a Belgian pharmacologist. He studied pharmaceutical sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and obtained a PhD with a dissertation on "Development of New Anti-HIV Agents". He did research on virology at the Rega Institute for Medical Research. In 1994 he founded the Belgian biotech company Tibotec, together with his wife Carine Claeys, and in 1995 he co-founded Virco.
- Abbas Aroua
Dr. Abbas Aroua is an Algerian medical physicist and activist. He obtained his PhD from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 1991. He is currently privat docent at the Lausanne Faculty of Medicine in Switzerland, and head of Aroua Health & Education. He leads the Hoggar Institute, a research institute publishing works related to Algerian politics and history, …
- Arnold Escher von der Linth
Arnold Escher von der Linth was a Swiss geologist, the son of Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth (1767-1823). In 1856 of geology at the École Polytechnique at Zürich. His researches led him to be regarded as one of the founders of Swiss geology. With Bernhard Studer he produced (1852-1853) the first elaborate geological map of Switzerland. He was the author also of "Geologische Bemerkungen über dos nordliche Vorarlberg und einige angrenzenden Gegenden", …
- Pierre Dufour
- Benedict Baumann
6 years telecoms experience in Marketing & Customer Relations environments managing the key interface between business & technical teams.
- Vincent Ducret
Project Manager, Solution Architect with 9 years experience in Information Technology; *Career Objectives*; Contribute to the growth and success of an international business environment by utilizing and developing Solution Architecture Design and Project Management expertise to solve concrete business solutions. *Professional Experience*; Project Management: Responsibility for planning and managing large projects (up to CHF 1 million), including risk analysis, resource planning and . . .
- Vincenzo Pallotta
* Nov. 2005- current: Senior Research and Teaching assistant at the Department of Computer Science, University of Fribourg. * Sep. 2002 Aug. 2005: Senior Researcher in the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) on Interactive Multimodal Information Management (IM2). * Aug.-Nov. 2005: Visiting Scholar at the Center of Studies in Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University. * Apr.-Aug. 2005: Research Assistant and Lecturer at the Global Computing Center of . . .
- David Portabella Clotet
Currently: Phd; -------------- I am doing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence at EPFL-LIA under the supervision of Dr. Martin Rajman on the topic of Electronic Catalogs. Start-up; --------------- After the PhD which I will finish in December 2006, we plan to start a company on the field of public open databases. Our aim is to promote the use of affordable open databases to end-users and small businesses. By databases we refer to the content (list of books, movies, restaurants, jobs...) . . .
- Vincent Vaerman
For 10+ years, Vincent has been active in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) through various positions ranging from R&D to business development and project management. His background includes experiences in software development (object-oriented coding, massively parallel computing), product/channel management and sales-related activities (consultancy, negotiations, bid management, SLA definition). He gained expertise in project management through the implementation of . . .
- Christian Hugonnet
Christian Hugonnet brings over 15 Years experience in Technology management and Venture Capital investment. He is presently CEO of Novasys, a leading provider of Internet and Mobile services with location intelligence. As such, Novasys enables its clients such as Telecom operators, Directory Assistance companies, Internet Portals and Assistance Call Centres to offer location centric services and information to customer in a logic of mobility.
- Ludovic Collin
- Renaud Schweingruber
Creating complete eCommerce plateforms, including catalog, webapplications understanding whole selling needs.
- Thumoe Aung
- Laurent Bischof
Laurent Bischof – Partner BrainsToVentures S.A. Laurent Bischof studied international relationship at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. He completed after an Executive Master in Management of Technology, EPFL, HEC Lausanne and McCombs University, Austin (Texas).
- Gabriela Montorzi
Gabriela is responsible for setting-up and managing processes for workflow,monitoring and evaluation
- Alois Pirker
Alois Pirker Alois Pirker is an analyst in Celent's securities and investments practice and is based in the firm's Boston office. Mr. Pirker's expertise lies in wealth management and separately managed account technology, advisor-focused platforms and tools, and data warehousing. Mr. Pirker has been widely quoted in the press, including Investment News, Ignites, Securities Industry News and On Wall Street.
- Michael Vorburger
Chief Architect, Team Lead, or Head of Engineering in an Information Technology environment, ideally Enterprise Software Solutions focused on e-Business, preferably Java-based. * Currently IT consultant/architect mostly doing J2EE Architecture, Business Rules Management Systems, and Service Oriented Architecture SOA (with IPT); * Former CTO of Enterprise Software company (at Vertical*i); * Software Engineer (Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA); * Computer Science graduate from EPFL, Swiss . . .
- George Melissargos
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- Gianfranco Moi
Gianfranco is a senior Information Technology Executive with extensive international experience focusing in Government Industry.
- Daniel Ossio
- Gabriel Walt
Interaction Designer focused on information accessibility and internet applications, I search for innovative solutions that go beyond the usual answers and technical limitations. My aim is to outstand the content through intelligible Information Design, ergonomic Navigation Design and clarifying Visual Design. Good technical skills allow me to make realistic conceptions as well as stable, modular and extensible implementations.
- Philippe Rochat
Research and development in advanced Information Systems.
- Francisco J. Esteve
Master Computer Engineer, Manager's Certificate in IT Service Management (ITIL); IMD Certified on Management of Technology Enterprises; Certified Project Manager (E&Y); 15 years of International experience in multilingual environments; the last 7 years focused on 2 very large projects (USA and Worldwide) for the realignement of IT from technically oriented to measurable service organizations -- aligned and delivering to business requirements. Large experience in IT operations and . . .
- Leonard Studer
Team leader, engineer, research scientist and past university professor. I aim at some senior position in a R&D dept.
- Marouane Tlili
I am a professional active in the domain of Information Technologies. I am helding a Master of Science from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne, Switzerland in communication systems. My pratical experience includes software engineering, software testing and management of Information Systems. I am highly interested in the field of Knowlege Management and also in the use of Knowledge Management for international development.
- Guillaume Schaer
Engineer in Communication Systems from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Ing. Sys. Com. Dipl. EPF), with good work experience in project management and mobile services, I've done my master thesis at deCODE genetics headquarters in Reykjavik, Iceland. I worked as project manager and Presale engineer at ilion Security SA in Geneva, Switzerland. I'm currently Customer Support Engineer at GE Security, Engineered Systems in Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Ivo de Man
- Nicolas Guerin
Security Engineer @ SWISSCOM Innovations. Specialist in VoIP, P2P networks. New business development for IT solutions and VoIP services.
- Julien Eperon
Actually Web Application Developper using Open Source Technologies
- Alexandre Perret
Manager with substantial experience in the wireless communication industry and in management consulting initiatives. Currently focusing on customer services strategies aiming to the development of an efficient and customer friendly service delivery.
- Gilles Thonet
Gilles has international R&D, project management and consulting experience in advanced communication technologies. His main focus areas are: Coordination of international, cross-cultural projects; Strategic development of new products; Technology watch and competitive intelligence; Evaluation of intellectual property portfolios.