Dr. Joanna Weng

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.

Network

Membership of networks

• SheroES - community for women in tech at the School of Engineering (Intranet only)
• ZHAW Datalab
• CERN Alumni
• ETH Alumni
• Schweizerische Vereinigung der Ingenieurinnen
• Women in Power
• Advance

Social media

LinkedIn

Projects

• DICLIS - Surveying the ZHAW Diversity Climate for students at the ZHAW / Team member / Project ongoing
• certAInty – A Certification Scheme for AI systems / Project co-leader / Project ongoing
• Machine Protection and Autonomous Predictive Interlock System / Deputy project leader / Project ongoing
• Personal Safety Systems / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Sensitivity Analysis / Project leader / Project completed
• Relevanz von Risikomodellparameter / Project leader / Project completed
• SmartRail 4.0 / Team member / Project completed
• Personnel Safety System (PSS) at the European Spallation Source (ESS) / Project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Weng, Joanna; Denzel, Philipp; Reif, Monika Ulrike; Schilling, Frank-Peter; Billeter, Yann; Frischknecht-Gruber, Carmen; Brunner, Stefan; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Repetto, Marco; Iranfar, Arman,

  2024.

  Certification scheme for artificial intelligence based systems [paper].

  In:

  34th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL), Cracow, Poland, 23-27 June 2024.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30549

• Billeter, Yann; Denzel, Philipp; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Forster, Oliver; Schilling, Frank-Peter; Brunner, Stefan; Frischknecht-Gruber, Carmen; Reif, Monika Ulrike; Weng, Joanna,

  2024.

  MLOps as enabler of trustworthy AI [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-30443

• Denzel, Philipp; Brunner, Stefan; Billeter, Yann; Forster, Oliver; Frischknecht-Gruber, Carmen; Reif, Monika Ulrike; Schilling, Frank-Peter; Weng, Joanna; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Amini, Amin; Repetto, Marco; Iranfar, Arman,

  2024.

  Towards the certification of AI-based systems [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-30439

• Brunner, Stefan; Frischknecht-Gruber, Carmen; Reif, Monika Ulrike; Weng, Joanna,

  2023.

  A comprehensive framework for ensuring the trustworthiness of AI systems [paper].

  In:

  Brito, Mário P.; Aven, Terje; Baraldi, Piero; Čepin, Marko; Zio, Enrico, eds.,

  Proceeding of the 33rd European Safety and Reliability Conference.

  33rd European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL), Southampton, United Kingdom, 3-7 September 2023.

  Singapore:

  Research Publishing.

  pp. 2772-2779.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-18-8071-1_P230-cd

• Frischknecht-Gruber, Carmen; Heuberger, Benjamin; Reif, Monika Ulrike; Weng, Joanna; Senn, Christoph,

  2023.

  Ensuring safety in highly automated vehicles : a review of testing and validation methods for robustness and reliability [paper].

  In:

  Brito, Mário P.; Aven, Terje; Baraldi, Piero; Čepin, Marko; Zio, Enrico, eds.,

  Proceeding of the 33rd European Safety and Reliability Conference.

  33rd European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL), Southampton, United Kingdom, 3-7 September 2023.

  Singapore:

  Research Publishing.

  pp. 257-264.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-18-8071-1_P414-cd

• Reif, Monika Ulrike; Weng, Joanna; Zaugg, Christoph,

  2020.

  Global sensitivity analysis of input variables for a train accident risk model [paper].

  In:

  Baraldi, Piero; Di Maio, Francesco; Zio, Enrico, eds.,

  Proceedings of the 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference and 15th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference.

  30th European Safety and Reliability Conference and 15th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference (ESREL2020 PSAM15), Venice, Italy, 1-5 November 2020.

  Singapore:

  Research Publishing.

  pp. 4923-4928.

  Available from: https://www.rpsonline.com.sg/proceedings/esrel2020/pdf/3879.pdf

• Weng, Joanna; Reif, Monika; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Schilling, Frank-Peter,

  2023.

  certAInty : a certification scheme for AI systems (Innosuisse project) [poster].

  In:

  Datalab Symposium, Winterthur, Schweiz, 11. Januar 2023.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27261

• Denzel, Philipp; Brunner, Stefan; Luley, Paul-Philipp; Frischknecht-Gruber, Carmen; Reif, Monika Ulrike; Schilling, Frank-Peter; Amini, Amin; Repetto, Marco; Iranfar, Arman; Weng, Joanna; Chavarriaga, Ricardo,

  2023.

  A framework for assessing and certifying explainability of health-oriented AI systems.

  In:

  Explainable AI in Medicine Workshop, Lugano, Switzerland, 2-3 November 2023.

• Weng, Joanna; et al.,

  2022.

  Hardware integrity assessment of the Fast Beam Interlock System (FBIS) at the European Spallation Source (ESS).

  In:

  Accelerator Reliability Workshop, Newport News, USA, 16-21 October 2022.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

ORCID

Other publications

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