Karim Ibrahim
Customer Success Engineer at IBM Switzerland (MSc Computer Science from HSG) with over six years of progressive experience spanning security engineering, cybersecurity consulting, and enterprise pre-sales. I support Enterprise & Strategic Accounts across the Swiss market on IBM's Maximo Application Suite, TRIRIGA, and Envizi portfolios, guiding clients through Proof of Value engagements and adoption strategy, while expanding into commercial deal execution.
Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, a Full Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics at EPFL, became the school’s president in January 2025. With a PhD from École Polytechnique in Palaiseau and leadership experience at institutions such as Caltech, TU Munich and EPFL, she has advanced sustainable semiconductors and quantum technologies while co-founding Aonex Technologies to bridge scientific innovation and entrepreneurship. She actively served on the Presiding Board of the Swiss National Foundations’ Research Council. She is a member of the EPFL-WISH foundation, whose goal is to support female students in accomplishing their professional goals.
Professor Fontcuberta i Morral has received numerous prizes and accolades, such as the Emmy Noether Distinction of the European Physical Society, the ERC Starting Grant, the Marie Curie Excellence Grant and the prize for the best teaching from the engineering students at EPFL. Of Spanish and Swiss origin, she is fluent in five languages.
Olga Fink
Olga Fink is Associate Professor at EPFL, where she heads the Intelligent Maintenance and Operations Systems (IMOS) Laboratory. She is the recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant and a Fellow of the Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Society. Her research focuses on AI for understanding, predicting, and optimizing infrastructure and complex engineered systems, with interests in Physical AI, multimodal learning, foundation models, and trustworthy autonomous decision-making.
Elma Electronic als neues IngCH-Mitglied
Elma Electronic als neues IngCH-Mitglied
Wir freuen uns bekannt zu geben, dass Elma Electronic per Januar 2025 IngCH beigetreten ist. Wir freuen uns gemeinsam mit Elma Electronic und unseren weiteren Mitgliedern, Partner:innen und Unterstützende junge Menschen für Technik zu begeistern!
Über Mikron
Elma Electronic ist ein weltweit führender Anbieter von Embedded-Computing-Lösungen. Als globales Unternehmen sind sie mit Vertriebs-, Design- und Produktionsstätten auf drei Kontinenten vertreten. Sie produzieren und entwickeln massgeschneiderte Systemlösungen, hochwertige Elektronikgehäuse, Baugruppenträger, Drehschalter und Schaltschränke. Mit ihrem Know-how unterstützt Elma eine Vielzahl von Industrien, darunter die Luft- und Raumfahrt, Verteidigung, künstliche Intelligenz, industrielle Automatisierung, Kommunikation und Transport.
Markus W. Fehr
Markus Fehr is Technical Leader for IBM Automation in Switzerland, specializing in intelligent automation, AI, and digital transformation. Based in Zurich and with international experience including two years in Singapore, he helps organizations modernize operations and drive innovation through technology. Markus is passionate about translating emerging technologies into measurable business outcomes.
Vincent Ducrot
Vincent Ducrot has held the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) since 1 April 2020. The engineer from Fribourg, a specialist in rail transport in Switzerland, has thus become the first French-speaking Swiss person in nearly 50 years to head the SBB. From 2011 to 2020, the electrical engineer, specialising in IT, held the post of Managing Director of Fribourg Public Transport (TPF). It was also at SBB that the Fribourg native, who is also an expert in project management, spent the bulk of his career (1993 to 2011) in various roles. After obtaining his A-levels (Latin and languages) at the Collège du Sud in Bulle, he graduated with a degree in electrical engineering (specialising in computer science) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in 1987. He supplemented this training with a postgraduate diploma in industrial organisation from the Centre for Industrial Management (BWI) at the ETH Zurich, as well as a certificate in portfolio management (Certified Portfolio Director IPMA Level A) and the OWP (Orchestrating Winning Performance) continuing education programme at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne.
Francesco Corman
Francesco Corman has been a professor of Transport Systems at the Institute of Transport Planning and Systems at ETH Zurich since 2017. He likes to design and apply new methods for the measurement, observation, description, prediction and optimization of transport systems, including public transport systems for mobility of people, like railways and transit. He has academic working experience in TUDelft, the Netherlands; KU Leuven, Belgium; and IBM.
Eleni Chatzi
Eleni Chatzi is Full Professor and Chair of Structural Mechanics and Monitoring at ETH Zürich. Her work spans physics-enhanced machine learning, structural health monitoring, digital twinning, and data-informed decision support. She currently chairs the Swiss Community for Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and the International Association on Structural Control & Monitoring. Her distinctions include the ASCE Huber Research Prize, and the 2024 SHM Person of the Year Award.
Edouard Bugnion
Prof. Edouard Bugnion is a Full Professor in the School of Computer Science and Communications at EPFL. His primary focus in both teaching and research lies in the field of datacenter systems. Before joining EPFL in 2012, he spent 18 years in the US, during which he earned his PhD from Stanford University and cofounded two startups: VMware and Nuova Systems (acquired by Cisco). He served as VMware’s first CTO and was later the VP/CTO of Cisco’s Server, Access, and Virtualization Technology Group. Prof. Bugnion is an ACM Fellow, a member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences (SATW), and a recipient of the ACM software systems award. Prof. Bugnion served as EPFL Vice President for Information Systems between 2017 and 2020. Since January 2025, he holds the position of Vice President for Innovation and Impact at EPFL. He additionally serves as an independent Director on the boards of Logitech and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Michel Bierlaire
Michel Bierlaire is Full Professor and Director of the Transport and Mobility Laboratory at EPFL, where he has been a faculty member since 1998 and a full professor since 2012. Holding a PhD in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Namur, he is internationally recognized for his contributions to transportation systems, mobility modelling, operations research, and demand analysis. Throughout his career, he has held research and leadership positions at EPFL and MIT, and has directed several major EPFL institutions, including the Transportation Center and the Civil Engineering Institute. He serves on the editorial boards of leading transportation and operations research journals and is a member of the research council of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB).