CAI Colloquium
We invite AI experts to present and discuss topics relevant to the scope of the CAI. The colloquium takes place on Thursdays from 11:00-12:00 at the Winterthur Campus of ZHAW.
Dates
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2026 |
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Fri 28.08 |
Prof. Dr. Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) | Evolutionary Machine Learning: Research, Applications and Opportunities | |
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Thu 09.07. |
Prof. Dr. Christoph Heitz (ZHAW IDS) | How to build non-discriminatory ML-based decision systems | |
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Thu 18.06. |
Dr. Rebecca Balebak (ZHAW InIT) | Are AI Red Teams the Thor or Loki of AI safety? | |
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Thu 26.03. |
Kristoffer Wickstrøm (UiT The Arctic University, Tromso, Norway) | Label-efficient computer vision through few-shot learning | |
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2025 |
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Thu 03.07. |
Dr. Cornelia Walther (U Penn/Wharton) | Cultivating ProSocial AI Through Hybrid Intelligence | |
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Thu 26.06. |
Dr. Ahmed Abdulkadir (ZHAW CAI) | Translating machine learning research into clinical image analysis | |
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Thu 24.04. |
Dr. Lukas Tuggener (RWAI AG) | How DeepSeek trained their own reasoning LLM | |
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2024 |
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Thu 21.11. |
Dr. Katya Mirylenka (Zalando) | Optimizing Large Language Models for Robust Domain-Specific NL2SQ | |
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Thu 18.04. |
Dr. André Meyer-Vitali (DFKI, German Research Centre for AI) | Mature AI Engineering for Trust by Design | |
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Thu 25.01. |
Dr Matteo Manica (IBM Research Europe, Zurich) | Harnessing the Power of Language Models to Accelerate Material Design | |
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2023 |
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Wed 22.11. |
Prof. Dr. Florian Tramèr (ETHZ) | Generative models have the memory of an elephant | |
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Wed 08.11. |
Prof. Dr. Jacob Whitehill, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), USA | AI Systems for Automated Guidance to Students, Teachers, and Workers | |
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Wed 18.10. |
Graham Budd (The Faraday Institute, Cambridge, UK) | AI - Challenging humanity | |
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Wed 11.10. |
Dr. Alisa Rupenyan-Vasileva (ZHAW, CAI) | Intelligent manufacturing in the era of Industry 4.0 enabled by data-driven optimization | |
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Wed 05.07. |
Prof. Dr. Lars Kaderali (Univ. Greifswald, D) | From Data to Discovery: Harnessing AI in Medicine for Improved Patient Care | |
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Wed, 07.06. |
Prof. Dr. Kurt Stockinger (ZHAW) | Quantum Machine Learning – The Next Big Thing? | |
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Wed, 24.05. |
Dr. Cristiano Malossi (IBM Research) | The Future of Visual Inspection for Civil Infrastructure | |
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Wed, 10.05. |
Prof. Dr. Jan Dirk Wegner (UZH) | Large-scale analysis of geospatial data with machine learning | |
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Wed, 26.04. |
Marcel Griesinger (ZHAW SML) | Das neue Datenschutzrecht und seine Umsetzung in der Praxis, u.a. im Bereich KI | |
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Wed, 01.03. |
Prof. Dr. Thomas Martinetz (Univ. Luebeck, D) | Large deep neural networks do learn with small data sets | |
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2022 |
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Wed, 23.11. |
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Grewe (ETHZ/UZH) | Why auto-encoding is not enough | |
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Wed, 19.10. |
Frank Wittmann & Meret Weiser (ZHAW) | Algorithms and ML in Social Work | |
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Wed, 20.7. |
2nd Panel Discussion (Ch.v.d. Malsburg, R. Douglas, Y. Sandamirskaya, B. Grewe, T. Stadelmann, R. Chavarriaga) | Pathways beyond present AI (Part 2): Artificial Intelligence: Game Over? | News |
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Wed, 27.04. |
1st Panel Discussion | Pathways beyond present AI | News |
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Wed, 30.3. |
Dr. Lucas Beyer (Google Brain) | Transformers as general vision backbones | |
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Wed, 2.3. |
Sebastian Welter (IKEA) | Scaling AI in Enterprises | |
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Wed, 16.2. |
Prof. Dr. Volker Dellwo (UZH) | Can speakers make themselves more recognisable?: Voice dynamics and its influence on voice recognition | |
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2021 |
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Wed, 17.11. |
Prof. Dr. Christoph von der Malsburg | How can kids learn so much faster than transformers? | Recording PDF |
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Wed, 8.9. |
Prof. Nicolaj Stache (HS Heilbronn) | From Simulation to Reality using Reinforcement Learning | |
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Wed, 25.8. |
Prof. Marco Gori (U Siena) | Learning to See by Motion Invariance |