22.08.23

ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence involved in Swiss version of ChatGPT

The Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) at the ZHAW School of Engineering has joined forces with researchers from other AI labs and companies to found the AI start-up AlpineAI, which is launching a Swiss version of ChatGPT. Under the name…

17.08.23

ZHAW students win regional Siemens Excellence Award with work on AI model for improving thyroid cancer diagnosis

Computer science graduates Tenzin Samdrup Langdun and Martin Oswald win the regional Siemens Excellence Award, endowed with 4'000 Swiss Francs, for their bachelor's thesis titled "Deep-Learning-Based Cell Segmentation for the Detection of Thyroid…

12.07.23

SwissText 2023 in Neuchâtel co-organised by CAI

The 8th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) was organized by CAI in collaboration with the Haute École ARC in Neuchâtel and the Swiss Association for Natural Language Processing (SwissNLP).

12.07.23

CAI experts discuss responsible AI at the SDS23 Workshop

ZHAW CAI contributes workshop on Responsible AI to provide support in the development of fair, transparent and regulatory compliant AI-based solutions

11.07.23

ZHAW CAI congratulates the CLAIRE network on its 5th anniversary

The CLAIRE network celebrates 5 years of working together with academia, industry and policy makers to promote Human-centred AI innovation and research in Europe. CAI hosts and supports the CLAIRE Office Switzerland since its creation.

03.07.23

Research under realistic clinical conditions: ZHAW Digital Health Lab is a partner of the OR-X research and teaching centre

The OR-X (Operating Room X) surgical research and teaching centre at Balgrist University Hospital has been recognised by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) as a research infrastructure of national significance. The…

28.06.23

New Swiss German Speech-to-Text Corpus Launched at ACL 2023

We present the STT4SG-350 (Speech-to-Text for Swiss German) corpus, which consists of 343 hours of audio with transcripts. The corresponding paper was accepted at ACL 2023.

26.06.23

Students at the ZHAW productize ChatGPT, Midjourney and Co.

Computer science students at ZHAW worked in groups to build new tech demos, using the latest generation of generative AI as part of the subject "Artificial Intelligence 2". The goal was to gain practical experience with the available tools within a…

16.06.23

New endowed professorship for Industrial Artificial Intelligence at the ZHAW School of Engineering

Together with the Johann Jacob Rieter Foundation, the Rieter Group is supporting an endowed professorship for Industrial Artificial Intelligence at the ZHAW School of Engineering. Dr Alisa Rupenyan will take up the new professorship, which deals with…

13.06.23

ZHAW researchers receive this year’s SwissNLP Award

Every year, the Swiss Association for Natural Language Processing (SwissNLP) selects a team, organization or project that pushes the boundaries of Natural Language Processing in Switzerland. In 2023, a team of researchers from ZHAW, FHNW and UZH…