08.09.18

Digital Health Conference

The topic of the ZHAW's "Life in Numbers" conference is "Digital Health - Digital Technology for Innovating Health Care". This conference, organised by the Institute for Applied Simulation (IAS), covers a wide range of topics in the field of…

20.06.18

Deep Learning Day 2018

Dear deep learning enthusiasts, We had great fun organizing the first deep learning day 2016 and deep learning day 2017 and are pleased to announce the Deep Learning Day 2018 in September 14th https://tensorchiefs.github.io/dlday2018/ - the…

10.04.18

COST Conference AI in Finance and Industry

We aim to bring European academics, young researchers, students and industrial practitioners together in Switzerland to discuss the application of Artificial Intelligence to various practical fields. In a broader context, we want to promote…

22.01.18

SwissText 2018 - submit a presentation

We invite you to submit a presentation to the 3rd Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText 2018), which takes place on June 12-13 in Winterthur. Please see below for details on presentations types and how you can contribute to the…

14.01.18

Big Data Project presented in new official video of ZHAW

Our SNF Big Data Project on Bio-SODA was recently presented in the new official video of ZHAW School of Engineering. The video about Bio-SODA starts at min 4:50.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jys71tJFh4w&feature=youtu.be

18.12.17

ZHAW is world record holder in speaker recognition

As part of their bachelor thesis in computer science Yanick Lukic and Carlo Vogt have developed a software that can recognize and assign voices in audio files. Now the two were guests at a specialist congress in Japan to present their work to an…

24.10.17

5th Swiss Conference on Data Science

The 5th Swiss Conference on Data Science will be held on the June 7, 2018, at Kursaal Bern, Switzerland.

03.10.17

Paper "ZNS - Efficient Query Processing with ZurichNoSQL" accepted

03.04.17

Ca'Foscari scholarship

In conjunction with the Ca'Foscari University of Venice, we are going to offer a Ph.D. scholarship in Machine Learning in 2017 See www.zhaw.ch/datalab/teaching for more information.

27.03.17

Two new CTI-founded R&D projects

The Information Engineering group at InIT is happy to announce two new CTI-funded R&D projects in the area of deep learning: Ada will focus on automated machine learning, while QualitAI will innovate in the area of deep learning on small data sets…

11.11.16

Bio-SODA Project Accepted by SNF

The project "Bio-SODA: Enabling Complex, Semantic Queries to Bioinformatics Databases through Intuitive Searching over Data" was accepted by SNF as part of the NFP75 Big Data call. Bio-SODA is a research collaboration between ZHAW School of…

22.07.16

Gefährdungen systematisch ausschliessen

Wer ein neues Produkt auf den Markt bringen will, muss sicherstellen, dass es weder Mensch noch Umwelt einem nicht tolerierbaren Risiko aussetzt. Um diese Anforderung zu erfüllen, werden Gefährdungs- und Risikoanalysen durchgeführt. An der ZHAW…

20.07.16

ZHAW ist Teil der Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services

Als eine der führenden Forschungsinstitutionen auf den Gebieten Data Science und Service Science hat die ZHAW School of Engineering ein schweizweites Innovationsbündnis aus Hochschulen und Unternehmen initiiert. Die «Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive…

31.03.16

Summer Internship in Berkeley

Jonas Heitz, who is currently doing his Bachelor’s thesis on query processing of NoSQL databases with Kurt Stockinger and Richard Bödi, was accepted for an internship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This lab is located right across San…

06.03.16

CTI-Funding for SAVE-Project Granted

False alarms are a major cost driver for owners of alarm systems. To remedy this problem, we develop a novel alarm verification service by leveraging the power of an alarm data warehouse. By analyzing live streams of alarms, comparing them with…

25.09.15

Interview with MIT's Michael Brodie from SDS|2015

ZHAW Impact magazine has a fantastic interview with MIT's data-intensive analyiss thought leader Michael Brodie in its 03/2015 issue.

31.07.15

Joint Talk with European Central Bank on “Large-Scale Data-Driven Financial Risk Assessment“ at DW2015

The recent financial crisis revealed the unstable nature of the financial system. The lack of a global standard for financial contract modeling makes comparison of risk exposures between banks almost impossible. Simulation of the cash flows of…

17.07.15

Our journal “Big Data Analytics in a Connected World” (Kurt Stockinger, Frank van Lingen, Marco Valente) was cited by Cisco’s Technology Radar

The Cisco Technology Radar on “Evolution of Data Management and Data Fabric” describes the technological challenges of the Internet of Things (IoT) in manufacturing, which is often considered the forth industrial revolution. The report stresses the…

06.05.15

Datalab cordially welcomes two new members

We are very proud to announce two new member institutes within Datalab: The Institute of Applied Simulation, ZHAW School of Life Sciences and Facility Management The Institute of Applied Mathematics and Physics, ZHAW School of Engineering With…

13.04.15

CTI Funding for DaCoMo and PANOPTES Projects Granted

Two project proposals in Machine Learning received a positive (conditional) funding decision from CTI in March 2015. The overall grant volume for Datalab members exceeds 675'000 CHF.