Director of the Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland F/M

Role description

The Idiap Research Institute invites applications for the position of Institute Director. The successful candidate will also receive an academic affiliation at the EPFL School of Engineering.

The Idiap Research Institute ( ) is an independent, not-for-profit, research institute of national importance, academically affiliated with the Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Geneva. Accredited and funded by the Federal Government, the State of Valais, and the City of Martigny, Idiap has, for the last years, been developing outstanding research, education, and technology transfer activities in multiple areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI). With an annual budget of MCHF and about researchers and collaborators, Idiap is today a key Swiss research institute in multiple AI fields, including machine learning (including deep learning, foundation models or agentic AI), human-centered AI (including social computing, multi-...