Martin Rajman is Scientific Advisor to the EPFL Vice Presidency for Support to Strategic Initiatives (VPS), where he serves as the VPS lead in a joint program with the Vice Presidency for Operations (VPO) to deploy AI tools across the EPFL administration. He is also Executive Co-Director of the Swiss National AI Institute (SNAI), which operates the Swiss AI Initiative developing Apertus, Switzerland’s open large language model (LLM).

Previously, he served as Executive Director of Nano-Tera.ch, a major Swiss research program funding multidisciplinary projects on complex systems for health and the environment, and as Director of the EPFL Global Computing Center (CGC), which fostered interdisciplinary research in Internet computing and distributed information systems.

Alongside his research management activities, Martin Rajman is a senior researcher specializing in artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and data-driven probabilistic machine learning. He previously worked at the Computer Science Department of Télécom ParisTech, where he developed research and teaching activities in natural language processing.

He has also contributed to major industry–research collaborations, including work on eBay’s product-ranking technology and enhanced article-recommendation techniques with Elsevier. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 publications and a former Director of the Computer Science Series at EPFL Press (PPUR).