Denis Gillet

EPFL SCI STI DG
ELG 141 (Bâtiment ELG)
Station 11
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Web-based Interaction Systems
Human-Computer Interaction
Human-Device Interaction
Cyber Physical Systems
Explainable AI

Mission

The Interaction Systems Group (REACT) deals with the design, the implementation, and the adoption of innovative information systems (algorithms, services, platforms, and apps). Interdisciplinary domains of deployment are cyber physical systems, social media for digital education and knowledge management, capacity building for development and social action, as well as explainable artificial intelligence.

Faculty Member

Head React Group
School of Engineering
Station 11 - EPFL - Ecublens
CH-1015 Lausanne
Office: ELG 141
Phone: 41 21 693-5168

Current Work

Denis Gillet received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree in Information Systems also from the EPFL in 1995. During 1992 he was appointed as Research Fellow at the Information Systems Laboratory of Stanford University in the United States. He is currently Maître d'enseignement et de recherche at the EPFL School of Engineering, where he leads the React research group. His current research interests include Technologies Enhanced Learning (TEL), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Human Devices Interaction (HDI) and Optimal Coordination of Complex and Distributed Systems.

Research

Google Scholar Citations

Recent Outside Contracts Awarded (PI @ EPFL)

Swiss Digital Skills Academy, swissuniversities P8, 2021-2026
CLOC DEAR MENA, Swissuniversities SUDAC, 2021-2024
iHub4Schools, H2020, 2021-2023
GraphNEx, Graph Neural Networks for Explainable Artificial Intelligence, SNF, 2021-2023
ASPIRE, Open Evidence-Based Research in Digital Education, swissuniversities P5, 2020-2021
Smart eTrolley, innosuisse, 2020-2021
DIARY Digital Affordance for Protection, EPFLinnovators, 2018-2022.
MOOLs Massive Open Online Labs, swissuniversities, 2018-2020.
Go-Ga, Go-Lab Going to Africa, H2020 IST, 2018-2020.
Next-Lab, Next Generation Stakeholders and Next Level Ecosystem for ColLaborative Science Education with Online Labs, H2020 IST, 2017-2019.
DriveForAll, Autonomous and connected vehicles at roundabouts, PSA, 2016-2020.
CROSS, Making digital status physically perceptible, EPFL-UNIL, 01-12.2016.
Maxon, High Density Fiber Positioner Robotic Systems for Massive Astrophysical Spectroscopic Surveys, CTI, 03.2016-10.2017.
SCOPES, Enabling Web-based Remote Laboratory Community and Infrastucture, SNSF, 08.2015-07.2018.
Paddoc, Cloudless Communication Middleware for NGOs, Hasler Foundation, 04.2015-10.2015.
Graspeo, EPFL Innogrant, 01.2015-12.2015.
MSF-Graasp, Innovative Agile Social Media Platform for Knowledge Management in the Field, Médecins sans Frontières, 06.2014-03.2016.
DESI, Developing a high accuracy, cost effective robot-positioners system for cosmology spectroscopic surveys, SNSF, 07.2014-06.2016.
Go-Lab, Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School, EU, FP7, 11.2012-10.2016.
UAV, Collision Avoidance, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Honeywell, 12.2011-11.2015.
PLE, Personal Learning Environment, SWITCH Foundation, 09.2011-04.2013.
Jumpers, Jobzippers User-driven Multi-relational and Personalized Recommender System, Commission for Technology and Innovation CTI, 03.2011-08.2012.
STELLAR Network of Excellence in Technology Enhanced Learning, EU, FP7, 02.2009-05.2012.
ROLE, Integrated Project on Responsive Open Learning Environments, EU, FP7, 02.2009-01.2013.
6th Sense, End-to-End Adaptive Wearable Augmented Reality, Hasler Foundation, 10.2005-07.2010.
Autonomy 2.0, Introduction of Social Learning Approaches in Engineering Education, EPFL FIFO Innovation Funds, 09.2007-08.2009.
PALETTE, Integrated Project on the Exploitation of Tacit and Explicit Knowledge in Communities of Practice, EU, FP6, 02.2006-01.2009.
PRIMA, Optical Differential Delay Line for the European Southern Observatory, SNSF&EPFL, 01.2004-08.2008.

Research Group

See the Web site of my React Research Group.

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Jérémy Alain La Scala, Nour Ghalia Abassi

Past EPFL PhD Students

Thierry Prud'Homme, Christophe Salzmann, Anh Vu Nguyen Ngoc, Karim Zeramdini, Yvan Michellod, Damien Perritaz, Sandy Ingram, Evgeny Bogdanov, Alain Bock, Na Li, Laleh Makarem, Andrii Vozniuk, Wissam Halimi, Ezequiel González Debada, Matin Macktoobian, Juan Carlos Farah, Rania Islambouli

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Steven Adriaan Roelofsen

Courses

Global issues of the digital society

HUM-285

The course presents current global issues related to instant communication and social media. The interdisciplinary approach integrates humanities and social sciences, as well as engineering sciences and introduces students to group work and the scientific approach.