Appointment of EPFL professors

© 2022 EPFL - The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of professors at EPFL. Andrea Cavallaro, who was appointed Full Professor at EPFL's School of Engineering, will also take office as director of Idiap on March 1, 2023. Professor Andrea Cavallaro, currently Full Professor at Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom, as Full Professor of Electrical Engineering in the School of Engineering (STI) and Director of the Idiap Research Institute. Andrea Cavallaro works on machine learning for multi-modal perception and modelling, computer vision, audio processing and information privacy. He is an internationally recognized expert in signal processing, perception, and machine learning. The appointment of Andrea Cavallaro will strengthen the research and teaching activities done at EPFL on these strategic topics, boost the academic links between EPFL and Idiap and contribute to maintaining and reinforcing the leading role of those two institutions in data science and machine learning. EPFL - Dr Camille Goemans, currently Postdoctoral Researcher at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Life Sciences in the School of Life Sciences (SV) - Camille Goemans is active in the field of microbiome research, with particular reference to the development of antimicrobial resistance.