Aude Billard

EPFL STI IMT LASA
ME A3 393 (Bâtiment ME)
Station 9
1015 Lausanne

EPFL STI IGM-GE
MED 0 1726 (Bâtiment MED)
Station 9
1015 Lausanne

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Administrative data

Fields of expertise

Machine Learning 
Robotics 
Mechatronics 
Dynamical Systems
Computational Neuroscience

Professional course

Full Professor

EPFL

2013

Associated Professor with Tenure

EPFL

2006-2012

Assistant Professor

EPFL

2002-2006

Assistant Professor

University of Southern California

2000-2002


Education

PhD

Artificial Intelligence

University of Edinburgh

1998

MSc

Knowledge-Based Systems

University of Edinburgh

1996

BSc & MSc

Physics

EPFL

1995


Awards

2023 : WiRES Recipient

2022 : IEEE RAS Distinguished Service Award : IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

2020 : IEEE Fellow : IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

2017 : ERC Advanced Grant : European Research Council

2015 : Excellent Women Academics : AcademiaNet

2013 : Elected Member : Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW)

2003 : Best reviewer award : IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

2003 : Swiss National Science Foundation Career Award : Swiss National Science Foundation

2001 : The Outstanding Young Person in Science and Innovation : Swiss Junior Chamber of Commerce

1996 : Innovative Teaching Grant : Intel Corporation

Teaching & PhD

Teaching

Microengineering

Mechanical Engineering

Courses

Machine learning programming

This is a practice-based course, where students program algorithms in machine learning and evaluate the performance of the algorithm thoroughly using real-world dataset.

Robotics practicals

The goal of this lab series is to practice the various theoretical frameworks acquired in the courses on a variety of robots, ranging from industrial robots to autonomous mobile robots, to robotic devices, all the way to interactive robots.

Learning and adaptive control for robots

To cope with constant and unexpected changes in their environment, robots need to adapt their paths rapidly and appropriately without endangering humans. this course presents method to react within millisecunds.