Pascal Sager
Pascal Sager
ZHAW
School of Engineering
Machine Perception & Cognition Group
Technikumstrasse 71
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
PhD Student | Head of AI Demonstrators
Focus
AI, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Intelligence
Teaching
- Lab Assistant Artificial Intelligence 1 (BSc.)
- Lab Assistant Artificial Intelligence (MAS)
- Lead Lab Machine Learning and Data Mining (BSc.)
Experience
- Senior Data Scientist
AlpineAI AG
08 / 2023 - today - Member of the Board: Sustainable Impact Program
Zurich University of Applied Sciences
08 / 2023 - today - Head of GPU Infrastructure and AI Demonstrators
Zurich University of Applied Sciences
07 / 2022 - 08 / 2023 - Scientific Assistant at Centre for AI
Zurich University of Applied Sciences
09 / 2020 - 05 / 2022 - Software Engineer
Spühl GmbH
09 / 2018 - 09 / 2020 - Software Engineer PLC
Hardinge Europe
07 / 2015 - 08 / 2017 - Hardware Design Engineer
Spühl GmbH
08 / 2013 - 07 / 2015 - Apprenticeship Automation Engineering
Spühl GmbH
08 / 2009 - 07 / 2013
Education and Continuing education
Education
- Master of Science / Data Science
Zurich University of Applied Sciences
08 / 2020 - 08 / 2023 - Bachelor of Science / Computer Science
Zurich University of Applied Sciences
08 / 2017 - 07 / 2020 - Advanced Federal Diploma of Higher Education (ISCED 6) / Electrical Engineering
ZBW - Centre for Continuing Vocational Education and Training
08 / 2013 - 07 / 2016 - Automation Engineer EFZ / Automation
GBS Vocational and Further Training Centre St. Gallen
08 / 2009 - 07 / 2013
Network
Membership of networks
- Datalab, the ZHAW Data Science Laboratory
- CLAIRE Rising Researchers Network
- Digital Futures Lab
- CLAIRE, the Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe
- Data Innovation Alliance
Awards
Best overall performance in the field of electrical engineering at the ZbW
Electrosuisse
12 / 2016
Social media
Projects
- Stability of self-organizing net fragments as inductive bias for next-generation deep learning / Team member / Project ongoing
- ML-BCA: Machine Learning for Body Composition Analysis / Deputy project leader / Project ongoing
- AUTODIDACT – Automated Video Data Annotation to Empower the ICU Cockpit Platform for Clinical Decision Support / Team member / Project completed
- RealScore – Scanning of Real-World Sheet Music for a Digital Music Stand / Team member / Project completed
- FWA: Visual Food Waste Analysis for Sustainable Kitchens / Team member / Project completed
Publications
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Tuggener, Lukas; Emberger, Raphael; Ghosh, Adhiraj; Sager, Pascal; Satyawan, Yvan Putra; Montoya, Javier; Goldschagg, Simon; Seibold, Florian; Gut, Urs; Ackermann, Philipp; Schmidhuber, Jürgen; Stadelmann, Thilo,
2024.
Real world music object recognition.
Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval.
7(1), pp. 1-14.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.157
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Sager, Pascal; Salzmann, Sebastian; Burn, Felice; Stadelmann, Thilo,
2022.
Journal of Imaging.
8(8), pp. 222.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging8080222
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Tuggener, Lukas; Sager, Pascal; Taoudi-Benchekroun, Yassine; Grewe, Benjamin F.; Stadelmann, Thilo,
2024.
So you want your private LLM at home? : a survey and benchmark of methods for efficient GPTs [paper].
In:
11th IEEE Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS), Zurich, Switzerland, 30-31 May 2024.
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30279
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Simmler, Niclas; Sager, Pascal; Andermatt, Philipp; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Schilling, Frank-Peter; Rosenthal, Matthias; Stadelmann, Thilo,
2021.
In:
Proceedings of the 8th SDS.
8th Swiss Conference on Data Science, Lucerne, Switzerland, 9 June 2021.
IEEE.
pp. 26-31.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SDS51136.2021.00012