Matthias Grossglauser
Matthias Grossglauser is a professor at EPFL whose research centers on machine learning and stochastic networks. He completed a PhD at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in 1998 and won the Cor Baayen Award from ERCIM. Before he joined EPFL as an assistant professor in 2003, he worked at AT&T's research laboratory, and from 2007 to 2010 he led the Internet Laboratory at Nokia Research Center in Helsinki. He joined the Swiss Federal Communications Commission (ComCom) in January 2020, and the IEEE named him a Fellow in 2021 for work on network traffic and data. He is also an ELLIS Fellow and co-directs the Information and Network Dynamics lab at EPFL.
Timeline
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1994–1998
Degrees in Lausanne, Atlanta and Paris
He earns an engineering diploma at EPFL and a master's degree at Georgia Tech, both in 1994. He completes a computer-science PhD at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in 1998.
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1998–2006
Cor Baayen and Rising Star awards
He wins the 1998 Cor Baayen Award, which ERCIM gives to a promising young researcher. He receives the 2006 CoNEXT/SIGCOMM Rising Star Award.
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2003
Assistant professor at EPFL
He takes an assistant professorship at EPFL in 2003, after several years as a scientist at AT&T's research laboratory.
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2007–2010
Heading Nokia's Internet Laboratory
He leads the Internet Laboratory at Nokia Research Center in Helsinki from 2007 to 2010.
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2011–2019
Returning to EPFL as associate professor
He returns to EPFL as an associate professor in 2011. From 2016 to 2019 he directs the Doctoral School in Computer and Communication Sciences.
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2020–2025
A seat on ComCom
He joins the Swiss Federal Communications Commission (ComCom) in January 2020. He is named full professor at EPFL in December 2020, and the commission lists him among its seven members in 2025.
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2021
Named an IEEE Fellow
IEEE names him a Fellow in 2021 for contributions to the modeling and analysis of network traffic and data. The recognition goes to less than 0.1% of voting members each year.
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As of October 2026
A professor at EPFL
He is a professor at EPFL, where he co-directs the Information and Network Dynamics lab. His current research interests center on machine learning, stochastic networks and discrete choice models. He is also an ELLIS Fellow.
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- Matthias Grossglauser Cor Baayen Award Winner 1998
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- Federal Council appoints Matthias Grossglauser to ComCom - EPFL
- Members
- Region 8 Fellows for the Class of 2021 – IEEE Region 8
- “My focus is on teasing information out of networks” - EPFL
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- Matthias Grossglauser | European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems