Dr. Joanna Weng
Dr. Joanna Weng
ZHAW
School of Engineering
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Technikumstrasse 9
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
- Senior lecturer (Mathematics, Physics and Physical Principles of Sensor Technology)
- Project Leader at the Safety-Critical Systems Research Lab Institute of Applied Mathematics and Physics (IAMP)
- Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) Associate
- Diversity Officer School of Engineering
Focus
- AI in Safety Critcal Systems, Physics, Deterministic and Probabilistic Safety Analysis for Nuclear Power Plants Functional Safety, STPA, IEC61508, Certification of AI systems, Particle Physics, Deterministic and Probabilistic Safety Analysis for Nuclear Power Plants
- CAS Projektmanagement; Functional Safety: FS Engineer (TÜV Rheinland) Certificate; IEEE CertifAIEd Authorized Assessor.
Professional development teaching
CAS Safe and Secure AI – Standards, Methods and Best Practices
Network
Membership of networks
- CERN Alumni
- ZHAW Datalab
- SheroES - community for women in tech at the School of Engineering (Intranet only)
- ETH Alumni
- Schweizerische Vereinigung der Ingenieurinnen
- Women in Power
- Advance
ORCID digital identifier
Social media
Projects
- Personnel Safety System at the European Spallation Source / Project leader / ongoing
- Certification program for assessing ethics of Autonomous Intelligent Systems (IEEE CertifAIEd Assessor Training) / Team member / completed
- Surveying the ZHAW Diversity Climate for students at the ZHAW / Team member / completed
- certAInty – A Certification Scheme for AI systems / Co-project leader / completed
- Machine Protection and Autonomous Predictive Interlock System / Deputy project leader / completed
- Sensitivity Analysis / Project leader / completed
- Personal Safety Systems / Project leader / completed
- Personnel Safety System (PSS) at the European Spallation Source / Project leader / 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
- Weng, J., Denzel, P., Reif, M. U., Schilling, F.-P., Billeter, Y., Frischknecht-Gruber, C., Brunner, S., Chavarriaga, R., Repetto, M., & Iranfar, A. (2024, June). Certification scheme for artificial intelligence based systems. 34th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL), Cracow, Poland, 23-27 June 2024. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30549
- Brunner, S., Frischknecht-Gruber, C., Reif, M. U., & Weng, J. (2023). A comprehensive framework for ensuring the trustworthiness of AI systems [Conference paper]. In M. P. Brito, T. Aven, P. Baraldi, M. Čepin, & E. Zio (Eds.), Proceeding of the 33rd European Safety and Reliability Conference (pp. 2772–2779). Research Publishing. https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-18-8071-1_P230-cd
- Frischknecht-Gruber, C., Heuberger, B., Reif, M. U., Weng, J., & Senn, C. (2023). Ensuring safety in highly automated vehicles : a review of testing and validation methods for robustness and reliability [Conference paper]. In M. P. Brito, T. Aven, P. Baraldi, M. Čepin, & E. Zio (Eds.), Proceeding of the 33rd European Safety and Reliability Conference (pp. 257–264). Research Publishing. https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-18-8071-1_P414-cd
- Reif, M. U., Weng, J., & Zaugg, C. (2020). Global sensitivity analysis of input variables for a train accident risk model [Conference paper]. In P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, & E. Zio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference and 15th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference (pp. 4923–4928). Research Publishing. https://www.rpsonline.com.sg/proceedings/esrel2020/pdf/3879.pdf
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
- Weng, J., Reif, M., Chavarriaga, R., & Schilling, F.-P. (2023, January 11). certAInty : a certification scheme for AI systems (Innosuisse project). Datalab Symposium, Winterthur, Schweiz, 11. Januar 2023. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27261
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
- Denzel, P., Brunner, S., Luley, P.-P., Frischknecht-Gruber, C., Reif, M. U., Schilling, F.-P., Amini, A., Repetto, M., Iranfar, A., Weng, J., & Chavarriaga, R. (2023, November 2). A framework for assessing and certifying explainability of health-oriented AI systems. Explainable AI in Medicine Workshop, Lugano, Switzerland, 2-3 November 2023.
- Weng, J. (2022, October 20). Hardware integrity assessment of the Fast Beam Interlock System (FBIS) at the European Spallation Source (ESS). Accelerator Reliability Workshop, Newport News, USA, 16-21 October 2022.