Oliver Forster

Work at ZHAW

Position

Tools Manager, Swiss Centre for Responsible AI

Focus

Responsible AI, Natural Language Processing, Biomedical Engineering

Experience

Research Assistant
Integrative Spinal Research, Balgrist University Hospital
09 / 2022 - 03 / 2023

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Master of Science in Electrical Engineering an Information Technology / Biomedical Engimeering and Machine Learning
  ETH Zurich
  09 / 2017 - 08 / 2022
• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering an Information Technology / Systems and Control, Biomedical Engineering
  ETH Zurich
  09 / 2013 - 09 / 2017

Projects

• SCRAI – A Think-and-Do-Tank for Responsible Development and Societal Alignment of Artificial Intelligence Systems / Team member / ongoing
• certAInty – A Certification Scheme for AI systems / Team member / completed

Publications

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Frischknecht-Gruber, C., Denzel, P., Reif, M., Billeter, Y., Brunner, S., Forster, O., Schilling, F.-P., Weng, J., & Chavarriaga, R. (2025). AI assessment in practice : implementing a certification scheme for AI trustworthiness [Conference paper]. In R. Görge, E. Haedecke, M. Poretschkin, & A. Schmitz (Eds.), Symposium on Scaling AI Assessments (SAIA 2024) (pp. 15:1–15:18). Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.SAIA.2024.15
• Billeter, Y., Denzel, P., Chavarriaga, R., Forster, O., Schilling, F.-P., Brunner, S., Frischknecht-Gruber, C., Reif, M. U., & Weng, J. (2024). MLOps as enabler of trustworthy AI [Conference paper]. 2024 11th IEEE Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS), 37–40. https://doi.org/10.1109/SDS60720.2024.00013
• Denzel, P., Brunner, S., Billeter, Y., Forster, O., Frischknecht-Gruber, C., Reif, M. U., Schilling, F.-P., Weng, J., Chavarriaga, R., Amini, A., Repetto, M., & Iranfar, A. (2024). Towards the certification of AI-based systems [Conference paper]. 2024 11th IEEE Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS), 84–91. https://doi.org/10.1109/SDS60720.2024.00020

Other publications

Frischknecht-Gruber, C., Denzel, P., Forster, O., Billeter, Y., Iranfar, A., Repetto, M., Reif, M. U., Schilling, F.-P., Weng, J., & Chavarriaga, R. (2025, January 28). Assessment tool for trustworthy AI systems : operational workflows for compliance assessment with regulatory requirements. AI Days @ HES-SO, Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland, 27–29 January 2025. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-32422

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