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How to detect criminal activities on Signal or WhatsApp?

Published:01.04.25 — Encryption is a way to ensure that data sent from one device to another can’t be read if intercepted. But what if the data pertains to criminal activity? Ana-Maria Cretu from EPFL’s Security and Privacy Engineering Lab shares her expertise on safety versus privacy concerns.

Can energy-hungry AI help cut our energy use?

Published:24.03.25 — It takes ten times more electricity for ChatGPT to respond to a prompt than for Google to carry out a standard search. Still, researchers are struggling to get a grasp on the energy implications of generative artificial intelligence both now and going forward.

“The Holy Grail of Biology”

Published:19.03.25 — IC and SV Professor Charlotte Bunne has appeared on the popular Ground Truths podcast, hosted by pioneering biomedical researcher Eric Topol, to talk about the recently published paper “How to build the virtual cell with artificial intelligence: Priorities and opportunities.”

Appointment of EPFL professors

Published:06.03.25 — The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of professors at EPFL.

A new cryptography framework for secure genomic studies

Published:03.03.25 — Developed from EPFL research, in collaboration with MIT and Yale, the combination of secure computation and distributed algorithms opens a new era for data collaborations in medical research.