Matthias Grossglauser Professor  Information and Network Dynamics group (INDY) School of Computer and Communication Sciences (I&C) EPFL Contact Mail: Prof. Matthias Grossglauser EPFL - I&C - INDY1 Station 14 CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland Office: INF 015 Phone: +41 21 693 8116 Assistant: +41 21 693 2623 Email: first.last@epfl.ch (please take a quick look at this before you send me email)

Short Bio

• Matthias Grossglauser is a Professor of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he co-directs the Information and Network Dynamics lab. His current research interests center on machine learning and data analytics, and on applications of these technologies in network science, computational social sciences, and recommender systems.

  He is currently a commissioner of the Swiss Federal Communications Commission ComCom. He was the director of EPFL's Doctoral School in Computer and Communication Sciences (2016-2019). From 2007-2010, he was with the Nokia Research Center (NRC) in Helsinki, Finland, leading the Internet Laboratory, a research organization comprising seven teams in security, networking, social media, and user experience. He was also in charge of a tech-transfer program focused on applied data mining and machine learning, and served on Nokia's CEO Technology Council, a team of technology experts advising the Nokia CEO. Prior to this, he was Assistant Professor at EPFL, and Principal Research Scientist in the Networking and Distributed Systems Laboratory at AT&T Research (Shannon Labs) in New Jersey, USA. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Sorbonne Université, a M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, and an engineering degree in Communication Systems from EPFL.

  He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and the recipient of the 1998 Cor Baayen Award from the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) and of the 2006 CoNEXT/SIGCOMM Rising Star Award. He was associate editor of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2001-2003).

Group Members

• Daichi Kuroda (Ph.D. student)
• Sadegh Khorasani (Ph.D. student)
• Oscar Villemaud (Ph.D. student)
• Maximilien Dreveton (postdoctoral researcher)
• Suryanarayana Sankagiri (postdoctoral researcher)

Former:

• Daniyar Chumbalov (Ph.D. 2023)
• Aswin Suresh (Ph.D. 2023)
• William Trouleau (Ph.D. 2021, co-advised with Patrick Thiran)
• Victor Kristof (Ph.D. 2021, co-advised with Patrick Thiran)
• Lucas Maystre (Ph.D. 2018)
• Jérôme van Zaen (research scientist, 2016-2017)
• Young-Jun Ko (Ph.D. 2017)
• Lyudmila Yartseva (Ph.D. 2017)
• Emtiyaz Khan (research scientist, 2014-2016)
• Ehsan Kazemi (Ph.D. 2016)
• Vincent Etter (Ph.D. 2015, co-advised with Patrick Thiran)
• Mohamed Kafsi (Ph.D. 2015, co-advised with Patrick Thiran)
• Pedram Pedarsani (Ph.D. 2013)
• Dominique Tschopp (Ph.D. 2010, co-advised with Suhas Diggavi)
• Natasa Sarafijanovic-Djukic (Ph.D. 2010)
• Michal Piorkowski (Ph.D. 2009)
• Daniel R. Figueiredo (postdoctoral fellow 2006-07)
• Henri Dubois-Ferrière (Ph.D. 2006, co-advised with Martin Vetterli)

Publications

• My publications are available here.

Project Demonstrators

Live:

• Interactive search: find the face of a target person through comparisons: who-is-th.at
• Sports: match outcome prediction for European soccer: kickoff.ai
• Political: vote prediction for Swiss plebiscites: predikon.ch
• Climate: test your knowledge of carbon footprints: Climpact.ch

Archived:

• Financial: Success prediction for kickstarter campaigns: sidekick.epfl.ch (archived)
• Media: Music recommendation to groups: groupstreamer.com (archived)

Teaching

• Internet Analytics
• Models and Methods for Random Networks
• Modèles stochastiques pour les communications (random processes for communications)
• Computer Networking 1

Professional Activities

• Recognitions:
  • 2014: Best Paper Award for “Mining Democracy”, with V. Etter, J. Herzen, and P. Thiran, ACM COSN 2014
  • 2012: Nokia Mobile Data Challenge: Next Place Prediction Challenge: winning algorithm (with V. Etter, M. Kafsi, E. Kazemi, P. Thiran)
  • 2006: CoNEXT/SIGCOMM Rising Star Award
  • 2001: Best Paper Award for “Mobility Increases the Capacity of Ad-hoc Wireless Networks”, with D. Tse (IEEE INFOCOM 2001)
  • 1998: Cor Baayen Award (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM))
• Technical Program Committees: UAI 2024 (AC), ACM SIGMETRICS 2021, IJCAI 2021 (AC), IJCAI 2020 (SPC), NeurIPS 2018, COSN 2013; IMC 2012; ACM SIGCOMM 2011; ACM-BCS 2010; NSDI 2008; CONEXT 2008, 2007; PERFORMANCE 2007; MOBIQUITOUS 2007, 2004; ACM SIGMETRICS 2006, 2005; ACM MOBIHOC 2006; ACM MOBICOM 2003; ACM SIGCOMM 2002; IEEE INFOCOM 2002, 2001, 2000; IWQoS 2000
• Member of the editorial board, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2001-2003)
• TPC co-chair: 3rd Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN), ITC Specialist Seminar 19
• Affiliations and Memberships:
  • Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)
  • Member of the board, Swiss Informatics Research Association (SIRA)
  • Center for Mobile Information and Communication Systems (MICS) (2003-2009)
  • Member of the board, ITEA 2 on software-intensive systems and services (2007-2009)
  • Steering board member, Future Internet Programme, Strategic Center of Excellence in Science, Technology and Innovation in ICT (ICT SHOK) (2007-2010)

Email - A Plea for Mercy...

• Like most people, I am struggling to keep up with my email. Here are a few rules that help me handle common requests more efficiently:

  EPFL student seeking project	The list of student projects at all levels (semester, diploma, and pre-doctoral school) can be found here. If you write to inquire about a project, please include your resume with your grades.
  External student seeking summer internship	My lab does not provide summer internships directly to external students. However, our School has programs for such internships, such as Summer@IC. Please apply to these programs directly, as I am unable to respond to personal requests for internships. Thank you!
  Graduate student seeking Ph.D. position	Thank you for your interest in my research and in our Ph. D. program. Please note that graduate admissions at our school are centralized. Kindly consult the following pages for more information on the doctoral program in Computer, Communication, and Information Sciences.
  Review request	Like most of us, I receive requests to review papers at a much higher rate than I can possibly handle. As a selection criterion, I tend to accept reviews of papers that fall into my areas of expertise, and from journals and conferences that do not seek to extract excessive financial profit from the work that authors and reviewers provide for free to the scientific community.