EPFL-LHST student projects

List of BA & MA semester and master projects carried out at EPFL’s Laboratory for the History of Science and Technology (LHST).

See also:

• 🔧 our technical documentation for students.
• 💻 our student projects page on the LHST website.

Fall 2023

• Mapping Open Science Platforms, MA semester project by Salma Ed-Dahabi (Data Science).

Spring 2023

• Quantifying anxiety about the future during the Second Industrial Revolution (1870-1915), BA semester project by Lina Bousbina and Tamara Antoun (SysCom).
• Indentifying Safety- Related Discourses In Patents, MA semester project by Danae Papadopoulos (Data Science). Report available here.
• Creation of a taxonomy for a corpus of US patents from the 19th century using non-supervised machine learning methods, MA semester project by Nicolas Jimenez (Data Science).
• A Topological Analysis of Researchers’ Online Behaviour, MA semester project by Mohamed Ben Chaabane and Ahmed Achiche (Electrical Engineering)
• Tracing the emergence of American psychology in France through Psychologie magazine (1970-1980) and Psychology Today (1967-1971), MA semester project by Nicolas Vannay (Computer Science).
• Distant Seeing: Applying Machine Vision Algorithms to Historical Scientific Images, MA semester project by Naël Dillenbourg (Robotics).
• Analyzing Public Opinion about Technology during the Second Industrial Revolution, MA semester project by Emmanuelle Denove (Computer Science).
• Applied Data Science and Artificial Intelligence to understand Climate Change Information, MA thesis by Thomas Benchetrit (Computer Science).

Template

- [Title of Project](Link to GH repo), [level: BA/MA] [semester project|master project] by **Name of Student** (Name of Section). Report available [here](Link to PDF).