Publications

Researchers from 14 institutes and centres are working with industry and institutional partners to develop innovative, scientifically based solutions. This research work is documented in a number of scientific publications.

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Ali, Waqar; Meyer, Benjamin; Stuhlmann, Linus Carl; Aschkenasy, Schlomo; Daniore, Paola; Stadelmann, Thilo; Abdulkadir, Ahmed,

2026.

Automated component testing for agentic AI in medical decision support systems[paper].

In:

12th IAPR TC3 Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition (ANNPR), Milan, Italy, 7-9 October 2026.

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37093
Willi, Leandra; Balebako, Rebecca,

2026.

The state of human (un) centered AI security research[paper].

In:

Workshop on Designing Human-AI Teaming for Security (HATS) @ Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), Hannover, Germany, 23 August 2026.

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37151
Eggimann, Hannah J.; Alejandre-Lafont, Enrique; von Allmen, Regula S.; Binder, Jörg; Herberth, Friedemann; Schiefer, Hans; Lutters, Gerd; Scheidegger, Stephan,

2026.

Measurement- and simulation-based evaluation and optimization of fetal radiation exposure for fluoroscopy-guided interventions demonstrated for a splenic artery aneurysm.

Physica Medica.

148(105857).
Navidi, Sina; Nowacki, Benjamin; Bajarunas, Kristupas; Arias Chao, Manuel; Hu, Chao,

2026.

SOC-agnostic rapid state-of-health estimation of lithium-ion batteries.

Applied Energy.

425(128451).
Meyer, Benjamin; Tuggener, Lukas; Hänzi, Sascha; Schmid, Daniel; Ayfer, Erdal; Grewe, Benjamin F.; Abdulkadir, Ahmed; Stadelmann, Thilo,

2026.

A document is worth a structured record : principled inductive bias design for document recognition.

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37194
Dul, Sithiprumnea; Wüthrich, Michael; Hufenus, Rudolf; Perret, Edith,

2026.

3D printing of continuous fiber self-reinforced thermoplastic composites.

Materials & Design.

(116621).
Assylbek, Damir; Aitymbetov, Nurmukhammed; Ristin, Marko; Zorbas, Dimitrios,

2026.

Efficient semantic image communication for traffic monitoring at the edge.

Internet of Things.

(102029).
Taoudi-Benchekroun, Yassine; Troyan, Klim; Sager, Pascal; Gerber, Stefan; Tuggener, Lukas; Stadelmann, Thilo; Grewe, Benjamin,

2026.

COGITAO : a procedural and object-centric framework to evaluate compositional and systematic generalization[paper].

In:

2nd Workshop on Compositional Learning: Safety, Interpretability, and Agents (CompLearn), Seoul, South Korea, 11 July 2026.

OpenReview.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36755
Park, Yu-Jin; Park, Jung-Wook; Auer, Michael; Shin, Joo Won; Kim, Seungmin; Yoon, Woojin; Yun, Hoseop; Kim, Dongwook; Puc, Uros; Kim, Chaeyoon; Rotermund, Fabian; Jazbinsek, Mojca; Kwon, O-Pil,

2026.

Fluorinated molecular engineering of nonlinear optical cationic chromophores in organic salt crystals for ultrabroadband terahertz wave generation.

Applied Physics Reviews.

13(3), pp. 031401.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37002
Rezayati, Maryam; Park, Kyu Min; van de Venn, Hans Wernher,

2026.

Learning-based contact interpretation : a transferable skill for robots.

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.
Kim, Seungmin; Jazbinsek, Mojca; Yoon, Woojin; Yun, Hoseop; Kwon, O‐Pil,

2026.

New fluoro-benzothiazolium crystals with non-centrosymmetric molecular ordering.

Macromolecular Research.
Apostolopoulou, Niki; Mavromatidis, Georgios; Knoeri, Christof,

2026.

Optimal decarbonization strategies for existing buildings : comparative analysis of retrofitting, repurposing and replacement.

Energy and Buildings.

368(117790).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37053
Plonczak, Antoni; Wüest, Matthias; Goren Huber, Lilach,

2026.

Physics-constrained deep learning for interpretable anomaly detection in large battery packs with limited monitoring granularity[paper].

In:

Do, Phuc; Ezhilarasu, Cordelia; Bregon, Anibal, eds.,

Proceedings of the European Conference of the PHM Society 2026.

9th European Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society, Oslo, Norway, 8-10 July 2026.

PHM Society.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37003
Kozadajevs, Jegenijs; Obusevs, Artjoms; Sauhats, Antans Saulius; Losevs, Marks,

2026.

Low-complexity price-based control strategy for residential PV-battery systems using low-cost PLC hardware[paper].

In:

Proceedings of IEEE GEPCOM 2026.

8th Global Power, Energy and Communication Conference (GPECOM), Naples, Italy, 3-5 June 2026.

IEEE.

pp. 685-690.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36911
Hearn, Adam Xavier; Schubert, Iljana; Koehrsen, Jens; Sohre, Annika; Hamed, Hagar,

2026.

Barriers, enablers and critical collaborations in the case of positive energy districts.

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities.

8(1808466).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36897
Bamdad, Marziyeh; Günther, Manuel; Darvishy, Alireza,

2026.

Navigating independence : a survey of visually impaired people's experiences and needs[paper].

In:

International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), Brno, Czech Republic, 15-17 July 2026.

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36427
Hürlimann, Manuela; Cieliebak, Mark,

2026.

ReproHum #0031–01 : reproducing a human readability evaluation for question–answer generation systems[paper].

In:

Mille, Simon; Gehrmann, Sebastian; Schmidtová, Patrícia; Dušek, Ondřej; Fadaee, Marzieh; Lo, Kyle; Santus, Enrico; Stanovsky, Gabriel, eds.,

Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM).

Fifth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM), San Diego, USA, 2-3 July 2026.

Association for Computational Linguistics.

pp. 1111-1116.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36904
Kölbl, Nikola; Tziridis, Konstantin; Maier, Andreas; Kinfe, Thomas; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Schilling, Achim; Krauss, Patrick,

2026.

The predictive brain : neural correlates of word expectancy align with large language model prediction probabilities.

NeuroImage.

334(121966).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36546
van Zelderen, Anand P. A.; Masters-Waage, Theodore C.; Affinito, Salvatore J.; Bekbergenova, Anely; Cowan, Kirsten; Hartmann, Tilo; Hausfeld, Mary M.; Jolink, Albert; Korbel, Jakob J.; Lynn, Theo; Renier, Laetitia; Singh, Dhruv P.; Wu, Sinuo; Banakou, Domna; Bayro, Allison; Bosse, Tibor; Derous, Eva; Draschkow, Dejan; Ferguson, Kristen A.; Fritz, Thomas; Gomez-Zara, Diego; Hauser, Christian; He, Vivianna Fang; Howe, Lauren C.; Jain, Devesh; Kinias, Zoe; Lukic, Yanick X.; Menges, Jochen I.; Mortezapour, Alireza; Nagaraj, Abhishek; Park, Chan Hyung; Persky, Susan; Remund, Moritz; Sanchez, Diana R.; Schellaert, Maaike; Streuber, Stephan; Viganò, Eleonora; Villano, Michael; Vleugels, Wouter; Zank, Markus; Hubbard, Timothy D.,

2026.

Creating common virtual ground : protocols to democratize open VR research.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

123(26), pp. e2524991123.
Egli, Jasmine; Balebako, Rebecca,

2026.

How to compare the security of code written by humans to LLM-generated code[paper].

In:

Joint Proceedings of the STAF 2026 Workshop, LLM4SE.

Second Workshop on Large Language Models For Generative Software Engineering (LLM4SE), Rennes, France, 30 June 2026.

CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36877