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with child care. [We want] to create an environment that
becomes more and more attractive for female professors. "
COVID-19 TECHNOLOGY

Vetterli says the award recognized his students' teamwork. " Because I've [advised] more than 70 Ph.D. students,
I've been blessed with some absolute superstar students, "
Vetterli says. " The award was really a recognition of the
group and a research agenda that we have been pursuing
all these years. "

Like other leading research universities, EPFL has been
working on projects to fight the spread of the coronavirus.
In May EPFL released SwissCovid, a contact-tracing app
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for COVID-19 that uses Apple's and
Google's application programming
interfaces, according to news website Tech2. Using Bluetooth signals
from smartphones, the app notifies
users when they've been in close
contact with another person who
has the app and who has recorded
that they have been exposed to the
virus. It is designed to do so without
identifying the individual or collecting personal information.
Apple and Google announced on
1 September that future versions of
their mobile operating systems will
In addition to helping you stay abreast of the latest
include a COVID-19 notification system
developments, network with your peers, and gain access
based on SwissCovid, CNBC reported.
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Vetterli joined IEEE as a student member, and that's when he says he discovered IEEE's rich repository of
research papers. More than 160 of
Vetterli's articles are now available in
the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
" I knew that's where real research in
the field of electrical engineering was
being published, " he says. " An IEEE
paper is sort of an atom of knowledge
for me because I've lived with them
for so long. "
IEEE honored Vetterli's work with
its 2017 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal, sponsored by Texas
Instruments. He was cited for his contributions to " advanced sampling, signal representations, and multirate and
multiresolution signal processing. "

This article originally appeared online
as " EPFL President Martin Vetterli
Takes On Gender Equity, COVID-19, and
Science Policy. "

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