Computer and Communication Sciences 2026-27

Core courses

Courses
Language
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Advanced Topics in Information Theory (Next time: spring 2027 )
COM-621 / Section EDIC
Gastpar
EN
Project report
2
Agentic-Systems Security
CS-620 / Section EDIC
Bracevac, Odersky
EN
Oral presentation
2
Constructive Computer Architecture (Cancelled for 2026-2027)
CS-629 / Section EDIC
Bourgeat
EN
Oral presentation
4
Fault-tolerant quantum computing (TBD)
CS-630 / Section EDIC
Soeken
EN
Project report
3
Interactive Theorem Proving Project (Next time: spring 2027)
CS-642 / Section EDIC
Pit-Claudel
EN
Multiple
4
Project FALL (Click on the arrow to fill out the description with the name of the professor (enseignant) and your project title)
CS-698 / Section EDIC
Various lecturers
EN
Project report
6
Project SPRING (Click on the arrow to fill out the description with the name of the professor (enseignant) and your project title)
CS-699 / Section EDIC
Various lecturers
EN
Project report
6
Topics in Computational Social Science (TopiCSS) (TBD)
CS-727 / Section EDIC
West
EN
Multiple
2
Topics in Machine Learning for Education (Not offered this year)
CS-702 / Section EDIC
Käser
EN
Oral
2
Topics in Machine Learning Systems (TBD)
CS-723 / Section EDIC
Falsafi, Jaggi, Kermarrec
EN
Oral presentation
3
Topics in Natural Language Processing (Not offered this year)
CS-612 / Section EDIC
Bosselut, Montariol, Sotnikova, Weiss
EN
Oral
2
Topics on Datacenter Design (Not offered this year)
CS-728 / Section EDIC
Falsafi
EN
Oral
2
Transfer learning and meta-learning (Not offered this year)
CS-625 / Section EDIC
Brbic
EN
Oral
2

Other doctoral courses (EDOC)

Courses
Language
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
EECS Seminar: Advanced Topics in Machine Learning (Next time: Spring 2027)
ENG-704 / Section EDEE
Bosselut, Cevher, Faltings, Flammarion, Frossard, West
EN
Autre (reprise)
2
Lecture series on scientific machine learning (Next time: Fall 2026)
PHYS-754 / Section EDPY
Bitbol, Carleo, Ceriotti, Harvey, Schrimpf, Schwaller, Zdeborová
EN
Oral presentation
2
Online learning in games (Next time: Spring 2027)
EE-735 / Section EDEE
Cevher
EN
Oral presentation
4
Reasoning in artificial intelligence (Spring 2027. The class discusses theoretical and applied developments on AI reasoning; the main class output is an experimental project (including typically training/finetuning of foundation models))
MATH-700 / Section EDMA
Abbé
EN
Oral
3

Master courses

Courses
Language
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Advanced multiprocessor architecture
CS-471 / Section IN
Falsafi, Ning
EN
Winter session
During the semester
8
Advanced probability and applications
COM-417 / Section SC
Shkel
EN
Summer session
Written
8
Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies (This course is a "depth" for Cyber Security master program and Cyber Security minor.)
CS-523 / Section IN
Vacat
EN
Summer session
Written
8
Algorithms II
CS-450 / Section IN
Kapralov
EN
Winter session
Written
8
Cryptography and security (This course is a "depth" for Cyber Security master program and Cyber Security minor.)
COM-401 / Section SC
Vaudenay
EN
Winter session
Written
8
Distributed algorithms
CS-451 / Section SC
Guerraoui
EN
Winter session
Written
8
Formal verification (This course is a "depth" for Cyber Security master program and Cyber Security minor.)
CS-550 / Section IN
Kuncak
EN
Winter session
During the semester
8
Foundations of Data Science
COM-406 / Section IN
Gastpar, Urbanke
EN
Winter session
Oral
8
Information theory and coding
COM-404 / Section SC
Shkel
EN
Winter session
Written
8
Interactive theorem proving (This course is a "depth" for Cyber Security master program and Cyber Security minor.)
CS-428 / Section IN
Pit-Claudel
EN
Summer session
During the semester
8
Learning theory (Pas donné en 2026-27)
CS-526 / Section IN
EN
Summer session
Written
6
Machine learning
CS-433 / Section IN
Flammarion, Jaggi
EN
Winter session
Written
8
Modern natural language processing
CS-552 / Section IN
Bosselut
EN
Summer session
During the semester
8
Principles of computer systems
CS-522 / Section IN
Argyraki, Candea
EN
Winter session
During the semester
8
Software security (This course is a "depth" for Cyber Security master program and Cyber Security minor.)
CS-412 / Section IN
Payer
EN
Summer session
Written
8
Sublinear algorithms
CS-448 / Section IN
Kapralov
EN
Summer session
During the semester
6
Systems for data management and data science
CS-460 / Section IN
Ailamaki, Kermarrec
EN
Summer session
Written
8