Dr. Ricardo Chavarriaga

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Group Leader, Responsible AI Innovation
• Head, CLAIRE Office Zürich
• Keynote Speaker
• Consultant, mentor, networker

Teaching

• BSc module Reinforcement Learning
• MSc EVA Module Artificial Intelligence Seminar
• MSc EVA Module Machine Intelligence Lab
• Guest lecturer at several universities nationally and internationally

Experience

• Co-leader, Focus Topic: Responsible AI
  Innosuisse - Innovation Booster Databooster
  01 / 2023 - today
• Polymath Fellow
  Polymath Fellow
  04 / 2019 - today
• Chair, Industry Connections Group Neurotechnologies for Brain Machine Interface
  IEEE Standards Association
  04 / 2017 - today
• Research Scientist, Lecturer
  EPFL
  01 / 2009 - 08 / 2019
• Research Scientist
  Idiap research Institute, Switzerland
  01 / 2006 - 12 / 2008

Education and Continuing education

Education

• PhD / Computer Science - Computational Neuroscience
  EPFL
  08 / 2001 - 12 / 2005
• Graduate School / Computer Science
  EPFL
  09 / 2000 - 07 / 2001
• BSc / Electronics Engineering
  Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia
  07 / 1991 - 03 / 1998

Continuing Education

• EPFL, Switzerland
  Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Management of Biotech, Medtech, and Pharma Ventures.
  12 / 2019
• PMI, USA
  Professional Project Management (PMP) Certification
  06 / 2019

Network

Membership of networks

• CLAIRE, the Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe
• Databooster -co-lead Focus Topic: Responsible AI
• IEEE Standards Association group P7700 Recommended Practice for the Responsible Design and Development of Neurotechnologies (Vice-chair)
• IEEE Standards Association group P2863 Recommended Practice for Organizational Governance of AI (Chair Subgroup on Principles)
• IEEE EMBS, SMC, Brain community, Life Sciences community (Senior member)
• Datalab, the ZHAW Data Science Laboratory
• MIT Technology Review Global Panel

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8879-2860

Awards

DIZH Fellowship 2021
ZHAW Digital
12 / 2020

Social media

• LinkedIn
• X/Twitter

Projects

• Certification program for assessing ethics of Autonomous Intelligent Systems (IEEE CertifAIEd Assessor Training) / Deputy project leader / laufend
• Brain Research International Data Governance & Exchange - Phase II / Co-project leader / laufend
• Apéro Digital: Event Series / Co-project leader / laufend
• AI for REAL-world NETwork operation / Team member / laufend
• Stability of self-organizing net fragments as inductive bias for next-generation deep learning / Team member / laufend
• certAInty – A Certification Scheme for AI systems / Project leader / laufend
• Brain Research International Data Governance & Exchange / Co-project leader / abgeschlossen
• Enabling Scientific Diplomacy: Preparation of the GESDA Neurotechnology Compass / Project leader / abgeschlossen
• Mobile Inclusion Lab / Co-project leader / abgeschlossen
• Good practices for responsible development of AI-based applications in healthcare / Project leader / abgeschlossen
• FWA: Visual Food Waste Analysis for Sustainable Kitchens / Team member / abgeschlossen

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