Dr. Joanna Weng

Work at ZHAW

Position at the ZHAW

Senior lecturer (Mathematics, Physics and Physical Principles of Sensor Technology)
Research projects at the Safety-Critical Systems Research Lab
Institute of Applied Mathematics and Physics (IAMP)
Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) Assossiate
Diversity Officer School of Engineering

www.zhaw.ch/iamp/sks

Education and Continuing education

Expertise and research interests

Functional Safety, STPA, IEC61508, Certification of AI systems, Particle Physics,
Deterministic and Probabilistic Safety Analysis for Nuclear Power Plants

Professional milestones

1998 - 2003 Master in Physics (KIT Karlsruhe)
2003 - 2006 Doctorate in Physics (KIT Karlsruhe/CERN)
2007 - 2011 Research Scientist (ETH Zürich)
2013 - 2017 Senior Engineer Safety Analysis (Nuclear Power Plant Mühleberg/BKW)

Educational background

CAS Project Management
Functional Safety: FS Engineer (TÜV Rheinland) Certificate

Membership of networks

• SheroES - community for women in tech at the School of Engineering (Intranet only)
• ZHAW Datalab
• CERN Alumni

Projects

• 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

• 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

Google Scholar: scholar.google.com/citations
ORCID: orcid.org/0009-0000-5334-100X

Theses
J. Weng, “Parameterisation of electromagnetic showers and search for large extra dimensions in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 14 TeV.” Ph.D. Thesis, University of Karlsruhe, CERN-THESIS-2006-062, IEKP-KA/2006-16, 2006


J. Weng, “Analysis of the H ->4 muons decay channel in the object oriented framework of CMS.” Diploma Thesis, University of Karlsruhe, IEKP-KA/2003-29, 2003


Journal Publications (excerpt)
1. CMS Collaboration, S. Chatrchyan et al., “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC,” Phys.Lett. B716 (2012) 30–61, arXiv:1207.7235

2. CMS Collaboration, S. Chatrchyan et al., “Measurement of W+W− production and search for the Higgs boson in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV,” Phys. Lett. B699 (2011) 25–47, arXiv:1102.5429

3. CMS Collaboration, V. Khachatryan et al., “First Measurement of Hadronic Event Shapes in pp
Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV,” Phys. Lett. B699 (2011) 48–67, arXiv:1102.0068

4. CMS Collaboration, J. Weng, “QCD Jet Physics with the CMS Detector at the LHC.” Proc. of the
4th Intl. Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High Energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard
Probes 2010), Eilat, Israel, 2010

5. CMS Collaboration, J. Weng, “Performance of Jet and Missing Transverse Energy Reconstruction
with CMS in pp Collisions at 7 TeV.” Proc. of 35th Intl. Conference on High Energy Physics, Paris,
France, 2010

6. CMS Collaboration, “Measurement of the Inclusive Jet Cross Section in pp Collisions at 7 TeV.”
CMS-PAS-QCD-10-011, 2010

7. J. Campbell, J. Huston, P. Nadolsky, F.-P. Schilling, P. Uwer, and J. Weng, “Common Ntuple
Output format for NLO Calculations.” Proc. of the 9th Workshop on Physics at TeV Colliders, Les
Houches, France, 2009

8. CMS Collaboration, “The Jet Plus Tracks Algorithm for Calorimeter Jet Energy Corrections in
CMS.” CMS-PAS-JME-09-002, 2009

9. J. Weng, “A Global Event Description using Particle Flow with the CMS Detector,”
arXiv:0810.3686. Proc. of 34th Intl. Conference on High Energy Physics, Philadelphia, USA, 2008

10. J. Weng, G. Quast, C. Saout, A. De Roeck, and M. Spiropulu, “Search for ADD direct graviton
emission in photon plus missing transverse energy final state at CMS.” CERN-CMS-NOTE-2006-129, 2006

11. CLIC Physics Working Group Collaboration, E. Accomando et al., “Physics at the CLIC multi-TeV
linear collider,” arXiv:hep-ph/0412251

12. J. Weng, E. Barberio, and A. Waugh, “Fast shower parameterization for electromagnetic cascades.” Prepared for 9th ICATPP Conference on Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications, Como, Italy, 2005

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