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Master Student Assistant Projects

(Remunerated, for officially registered EPFL students only)
Streaming Wake-Up Networks for Low-Power Sensor Processing
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Tommaso Terzano, Dr. David Mallasén Quintana, Prof. David Atienza
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Development of a patch-sized PCB for long-term skin conductance monitoring using HEEPidermis
Lab: ESL
Sections: STI
Supervisor: Juan Sapriza, Prof. David Atienza
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eXtendable Heterogeneous Energy-Efficient Platform - EPFL
Automation of a semi-custom design and verification flow for ultra-low-leakage always-on circuits relying on differential logic
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Dr. Davide Schiavone, Dr. Alexandre Levisse, Prof. Matias Miguez, Robin Leplae, Juan Sapriza, Prof. David Atienza
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Master Projects

Characterisation and Integration of a Modular Optical Physiological Sensing Module into VersaSens
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Dr. Harshal Arun Sonar, Dr. Taraneh Aminosharieh Najafi, Prof. David Atienza
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Design of a Multiple-Issue Execution Pipeline for an Out-Of-Order RISC-V Processor
Lab: ESL
Sections: STI
Supervisor: Dr. Michele Caon, Prof. David Atienza
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Multi-CGRA Tile Accelerator: Integration, Modeling, and Scalability Analysis
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Mr. Rubén Rodríguez Álvarez, Ms. Yuxuan Wang, Dr. Denisa Constantinescu, Dr. Miguel Peón Quirós, Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni, Prof. David Atienza
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Acquisition-Application co-optimization of a Level-Crossing ADC for Implantable Neural Interfaces
Lab: ESL
Sections: STI
Supervisor: Juan Sapriza, Prof. David Atienza
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Precision-Scalable Systolic Arrays for High-Efficiency LLM Inference Acceleration
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Rubén Rodríguez Álvarez, Yuxuan Wang, Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni, Prof. David Atienza
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From Telemetry to Flexibility Services: Schema Design for Data Centres as Energy Prosumers
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Dr. Denisa Constantinescu, Prof. David Atienza, Steven Senator of Los Alamos National Laboratory, HPC Workload Management
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An urban digital twin for climate action: Assessing policies and solutions for energy, water and infrastructure
Eyes on the Unmeasured: Blind Forecasting through Multivariate Attention Networks
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Golnoosh Abdollahinejad, Dr. Denisa Constantinescu, Prof. Dr. David Atienza
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An urban digital twin for climate action: Assessing policies and solutions for energy, water and infrastructure
When Sensors Go Silent: Masked Multivariate Transformers for Robust Urban Water Forecasting
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Golnoosh Abdollahinejad, Dr. Denisa Constantinescu, Prof. Dr. David Atienza
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An urban digital twin for climate action: Assessing policies and solutions for energy, water and infrastructure
Fast compilation for Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) via Graph Minors
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Ms. Yuxuan Wang, Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni, Prof. David Atienza
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Microarchitectural explorations for biomedical applications
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Miguel Peón-Quirós, EcoCloud; Prof. David Atienza, ESL; Stefano Albini, ESL
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Enabling Local Tightly, Global Loosely coupled Programmable Accelerators Heterogeneous Systems by integrating X-HEEP into ESP SoCs
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Dr. Davide Schiavone, Prof. Daniele Jahier Pagliari, Prof. Alessio Burrello, Prof. David Atienza
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eXtendable Heterogeneous Energy-Efficient Platform - EPFL
Porting and Optimization of biomedical benchmark applications to the X-HEEP Open-Source RISC-V-based microcontroller platform
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Dr. Davide Schiavone, Mr. Dimitrios Samakovlis, Mr. Stefano Albini, Prof. David Atienza
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Implementation of an Accelerator based on Near-Memory Computing IPs for a RISC-V-based Microcontroller
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Dr. Davide Schiavone, Michele Caon, Prof. David Atienza
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eXtendable Heterogeneous Energy-Efficient Platform - EPFL
X-HEEP Accelerators: design, verification, and integration of a general purpose co-processor/accelerator based on RISC-V for edge-computing SoCs
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Dr. Davide Schiavone, Prof. David Atienza
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Towards intelligent laser welding: automatic control of processing quality using reinforcement learning and deep neural architectures
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Dr. Sergey Shevchik, Prof. David Atienza
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EMPA (Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt)

Master or Semester Projects

Custom Hardware Design of Posit Arithmetic Operators for Low-Precision Computing
Lab: ESL
Sections: STI
Supervisor: Mr. Tommaso Terzano, Dr. David Mallasén Quintana and Prof. David Atienza
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Enhancing the Efficiency and Accuracy of Radio Interferometry Kernels using CGRA-ME Framework
Lab: ESL
Sections: ESL
Supervisor: Dr. Denisa-Andreea Constantinescu; Rubén Rodríguez Álvarez; Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni; Prof. David Atienza Alonso
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Integration and optimization of Ultra Low Power CPU on the X-HEEP platform targeting implantable devices
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Mr. Juan Sapriza, Dr. Davide Schiavone, Prof. David Atienza
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Semester Projects

FPGA implementation and validation of a Compute-Memory architecture for DNN inference applications
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Grégoire Eggermann, Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni and Prof. David Atienza
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Automatic geolocation of acoustic events using the VersaSens platform
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Doctoral candidate Wensi Zhang, Dr. Taraneh Aminosharieh Najafi, Dr. Jérôme Thevenot
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Scalable Memory-Mapped Systolic Array Cluster for LLM Inference
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Mr. Rubén Rodríguez Álvarez, Ms. Yuxuan Wang, Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni, Prof. David Atienza
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Visual X-HEEP: Enhancing X-HEEP with Camera Interfaces and VGA monitors
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Dr. Davide Schiavone, Dr. Michele Caon, Prof. David Atienza
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Optimization of Transformer-based ensemble
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Mr. Stefano Albini, Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni, Prof. David Atienza
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ML-based Design Space Exploration Framework for LLM Inference in Mixed-Precision Systolic Arrays
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Mr. Rubén Rodríguez Álvarez, Ms. Yuxuan Wang, Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni, Prof. David Atienza
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Comparative Evaluation of Time-Series Embedding Methods for Seizure Classification
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Dimitra Tatlin, Dr. Lara Orlandic, Dr. Jonathan Dan, Prof. David Atienza
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Precision-Scalable Systolic Arrays for High-Efficiency LLM Inference Acceleration
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Rubén Rodríguez Álvarez, Yuxuan Wang, Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni, Prof. David Atienza
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Development of a TFT display interface for VersaSens
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Dr. Jérôme Thevenot, Dr. Taraneh Aminosharieh Najafi, Doctoral candidate Wensi Zhang, Prof. David Atienza
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Architecture Definition and FPGA Deployment of a Near-Memory Computing Platform for Edge AI and Multimedia
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Dr. Michele Caon, Dr. Davide Schiavone, Prof. David Atienza
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eXtendable Heterogeneous Energy-Efficient Platform - EPFL
Application Deployment and Software Optimization on a Near-Memory Computing Platform for Edge AI and Multimedia
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Dr. Michele Caon, Dr. Davide Schiavone, Prof. David Atienza
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eXtendable Heterogeneous Energy-Efficient Platform - EPFL
Mind the Gaps: Missing-Aware Embedding Layers for Transformer Forecasting
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Golnoosh Abdollahinejad, Dr. Denisa Constantinescu, Prof. Dr. David Atienza
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An urban digital twin for climate action: Assessing policies and solutions for energy, water and infrastructure
Extraction of Heart-Related Information in Epileptic Patients
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Dr. Jonathan Dan, Christodoulos Kechris, Prof. David Atienza
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Physiological Data Collection Platform for WearOS Smartwatches
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Dr. Jonathan Dan, Dimitra Tatli, Prof. David Atienza
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Porting X-HEEP to a Lattice FPGA with open-source EDA tools
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Dr. Davide Schiavone, Dr. Christoph Mueller, Prof. David Atienza, Prof. Andreas Burg
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Testing and verification of a fabricated IMC memory
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Dr. Alexandre Levisse, Prof. David Atienza
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Deployment of probabilistic deep learning methods for context-aware and robust Heart Rate extraction in constrained wearables
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Christodoulos Kechris, Dr. Jose Miranda, Dr. Jonathan Dan, Prof. David Atienza
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Towards Audio-Visual Speech Separation and Recognition
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Mr. Cristian Cioflan, Dr. Miguel de Prado, Dr. Jose Miranda, Prof. David Atienza
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Implementation of automation techniques for IMC arrays
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Dr. Alexandre Levisse, Prof. David Atienza
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Deployment of an unsupervised deep adaptive filtering method for context-aware and robust Heart Rate extraction in constrained wearables
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Christodoulos Kechris MSc, Dr. Jose Miranda, Dr. Jonathan Dan, Prof. David Atienza
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eXtendable Heterogeneous Energy-Efficient Platform - EPFL
Design of efficient Convolutional Layers for Near-Memory Computing IPs based on RISC-V
Lab: ESL
Sections: SEL
Supervisor: Mr. Luigi Giuffrida, Dr. Davide Schiavone, Prof. David Atienza
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eXtendable Heterogeneous Energy-Efficient Platform - EPFL