27.03.25

CAI Staff Receive DIZH Fellowship 2025

For the seventh time, the "ZHAW digital" initiative is supporting researchers working on projects related to digital transformation. This year, the scholarship is awarded to five junior and five senior fellows with doctoral students. Two of the…

26.03.25

Paper on ARMADA accepted at EDBT conference

The first paper from the ARMADA project "Towards Reliable Conversational Data Analytics" by Prof Bogojeska accepted at EDBT conference. It outlines and examines five key properties that drive a paradigm shift in system design and user interaction,…

20.03.25

Waqar Ali successfully defended his PhD thesis on GNNs

Waqar Ali successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Advanced Representation Learning Techniques For Graph Neural Networks" at Ca'Foscari University of Venice. On behalf of the CAI, we extend our heartfelt congratulations to Waqar Ali!

11.12.24

City of Winterthur and ZHAW Datalab: From Data to Action

More than 100 representatives from the City of Winterthur and ZHAW attended the WinLab Brownbag Lunch to discuss the question: "How can we use data to shape the future of Winterthur?" After short presentations on open government data, data-driven…

10.12.24

Sifting through the Data Jungle at Hospitals with AI

ZHAW researchers present their work at NeurIPS'24, one of the most impactful AI conferences worldwide. Their research focuses on electronic health records (EHRs) and querying them in natural language across various database systems, yielding new…

10.12.24

Paper “Towards Website X-Ray for Europe’s Municipalities: Unveiling Digital Transformation with Multimodal Embeddings” Accepted at iiWAS 2024

The paper “Towards Website X-Ray for Europe’s Municipalities: Unveiling Digital Transformation with Multimodal Embeddings” by ZHAW researchers Jonathan Gerber, Bruno Kreiner, Jasmin Saxer and Andreas Weiler has been accepted at the iiWAS 2024…

03.12.24

Automated Grading with AI?

In their Bachelor’s thesis, ZHAW graduates from the ZHAW Data Science and Informatics programs analysed the automatic creation of open examination questions and their evaluation. They investigated various automatic grading systems and large language…

26.11.24

Robotic Expectations

Insights into assistive robots, autonomous drones, and a demo of the humanoid robot Unitree G1 were some of the highlights of an event co-organised by ZHAW digital, the University of Zurich, Lab42, and Mindfire. At two locations, more than 200…

25.11.24

CAI to launch the AI-BRIDGE Think-and-do-Tank

The ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence launches a new initiative to create a center for Responsible AI Innovation in Zurich. The AI-BRIDGE Think-and-Do Tank brings responsible AI to the ground by bridging the gap between societal values and…

19.11.24

Research by CAI member published at NeurIPS

The paper “Safe Time-Varying Optimization” based on Gaussian Processes with Spatio-Temporal Kernel will be presented as poster during NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver.

29.10.24

CAI-led event series Apéro Digital releases infographics summarizing its recent events

Apéro Digital is a multi-stakeholder outreach activity effort that bridges the gap between sectors to drive impactful change. It disseminates the key takeaways of these exchanges via co-created infographic artefacts. We release now infographics on…

26.09.24

CAI offers training on ethical certification of AI systems in collaboration with IEEE Standards Association

As part of its focus on responsible development of AI systems, the ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence is offering for the first-time in Switzerland the IEEE CertifAIEd™ Assessor Training, providing tools for evaluating transparency, privacy,…

25.09.24

Highlights from the Datalab Symposium 2024

The ZHAW Datalab facilitates Data Science courses, initiated the largest Data Science Conference in Switzerland, and brings together researchers from various ZHAW departments. At the Datalab Symposium 2024, Jasmin Saxer received an award for the most…

11.09.24

AI meets radioastronomy: The ZHAW SKACH team attends the MWA and Swiss SKA conferences

SKACH researchers from ZHAW CAI and IWI attended their first MWA project meeting and just afterwards presented their work on generative deep learning for the SKAO at the Swiss SKA Days 2024.

25.07.24

ZHAW, UNEP and ETH release their report on the "Digital Public Infrastructure for Environmental Sustainability"

At the "World Summit on the Information Society" representatives from ZHAW, the United Environment Program (UNEP) and ETH Zurich presented their report on digital public infrastructure. It focuses on the pivotal role of environmental monitoring data,…

09.07.24

First Time Ever: Two papers at most important NLP conference accepted!

The NLP Team at CAI has published two papers at ACL 2024, the most important NLP conference worldwide. The first paper, part of the ChaLL Project, introduces an STT module for young English learners, enhancing language practice. The second paper,…

09.07.24

Best Poster Award for "Linguistics of Chess"

Two students of CAI, Lars Schmid and Jerome Maag, received the Best Poster Award at the 9th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) for their Bachelor thesis on "Linguistics of Chess".

09.07.24

CAI Project "Misinformation Detection in Videos" wins funding from ZHAW digital

The NLP team at the CAI of ZHAW receives funding from ZHAW digital to advance the project on detecting disinformation in videos.

25.06.24

MPC Group excels at the IEEE Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS) 2024

CAI’s Machine Perception and Cognition Group had a remarkable presence at IEEE SDS 2024, held in Zürich on May 31st. Three papers from our team were presented, and the event featured several highlights, including an award.

24.06.24

Research findings of CAI staff have potential to impact cancer diagnosis globally

The result of the BSc Thesis "Deep-learning-based Cell Segmentation for Rapid Optical Cytopathology of Thyroid Cancer" by Martin Oswald and Tenzin Langdun has been accepted as a paper in Nature's Scientific Reports