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Willy Zwaenepoel The legacy of a great Dean

Dean School I&C. Willy Zwaenepoel The legacy of a great Dean. The Legacy of a Great Dean. Track Record. 2002: a key hire for EPFL. -> A PhD from Stanford University -> Professor at Rice University and Director of the Computer systems Laboratory -> A brilliant scientist, fellow of the IEEE

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Willy Zwaenepoel The legacy of a great Dean

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  1. Dean School I&C Willy Zwaenepoel The legacy of a great Dean

  2. The Legacy of a Great Dean Track Record 2002: a key hire for EPFL -> 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

  3. The Legacy of a Great Dean Personal Interests The true reason for his coming to EPFL -> Europeancuisine “Everything that you cannot eat in American restaurants… …rabbit, duck, pigeon” Le Matin: 26/09/2002 -> Football … and especially the Belgian football team “Les Diables Rouges”

  4. The Legacy of a Great Dean Audit I&C 2007 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 topfive 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 bestamongallEuropeanschools and among the top10worldwide (…).

  5. The Legacy of a Great Dean Track Record Outstanding Faculty recruitments 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)

  6. The Legacy of a Great Dean Excellence ERC Grants Martin Odersky Wulfram Gerstner Amin Shokrollahi Martin Vetterli Michael Gastpar * Christina Fragouli Mark Pauly Dejan Kostic Pascal Fua * About to join EPFL

  7. The Legacy of a Great Dean Excellence Academic fellows ACM fellows Jean-Pierre Hubaux Giovanni de Micheli Martin Odersky Martin Vetterli Willy Zwaenepoel IEEE Fellows Martin Hasler Jean-Pierre Hubaux Jean-Yves Le Boudec Giovanni de Micheli Bixio Rimoldi Amin Shokrollahi Stefano Spaccapietra Martin Vetterli Willy Zwaenepoel

  8. Innovation and Tech Transfer The Innovation Square Develop interactions with industry -> Concrete interactions with the School of I&C Cisco Alcan Logitech Nokia IT IT IT IT IT Crédit Suisse Debiopharm Elca Nestlé photo: Thomas Jantscher

  9. Innovation and Tech Transfer Inventions Creative Faculty 2010 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

  10. Innovation and Tech Transfer Start-ups Recent I&C start-ups

  11. Innovation and Tech Transfer Entrepreneurs I&C and the Innogrants 300 250 External 200 Students CDM 150 ENAC SV 100 SB IC 50 STI 0 juil.05 juil.07 oct.08 juil.09 oct.09 juil.10 avr.07 avr.10 déc.06 dec.08 dec.10 nov.05 nov.07 mai.08 mai.09 juin.06 févr.07 févr.09 févr.10 sept.05 sept.06 sept.07 sept.10 janv.06 janv.08 aout.08 mars.06 mars.08

  12. The legacy of a great Dean A new building

  13. The School of I&C Today and Tomorrow Some challenges -> 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

  14. EPFL Campus 2020 Perspectives Culture & Arts Campus 2020 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 liveconcerts

  15. Perspectives Campus 2020 Teaching Lab @ EPFL -> An ambitious project dedicated to teaching -> A new concept of interdisciplinary, project-based discoverylearninglaboratories for advanced BS & MS students -> An attempt to enrich EPFL initial urbanism Concept and design by Dominique Perrault Architects

  16. Teaching Lab @ EPFL Perspectives Campus 2020 Build tomorrow’s EPFL … … for our students

  17. The School of I&C Today and Tomorrow A warm “thank you” to Willy -> A visionaryDean, 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!

  18. The School of I&C Today and Tomorrow Welcome to Martin Vetterli -> A brilliantscientist: 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 « 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

  19. Thank you for your attention

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