24.10.24

ZHAW involved in EU project DataGEMS: A data discovery platform to benefit business and society

ZHAW researchers from the ZHAW Institute of Computer Science (InIT) are involved in the EU DataGEMS project, which aims to develop an innovative platform for discovering, managing and analyzing data. With a clear focus on FAIR principles and the…

07.10.24

Physicilly-based Product Visualization in Web Browser

The results of Simon Stucki's master's thesis on "Physically-based Path Tracer using WebGPU and OpenPBR" were presented as a scientific paper at the ACM SIGGRAPH Web3D conference. The software development is publicly available on GitHub as an open…

16.09.24

New InIT transcription service

The InIT now offers an automatic transcription service for Swiss dialects for all ZHAW members. The service transcribes any audio with Swiss dialect into standard German written language with unrivalled accuracy. The transcription of an audio file…

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,…

31.05.24

Paper “DIGILOG: Towards a Monitoring Platform for Digital Transformation of European Communities” Accepted as a Research Project at RCIS 2024

The paper "DIGILOG: Towards a Monitoring Platform for Digital Transformation of European Communities" by ZHAW researchers Jonathan Gerber, Jasmin Saxer, Bruno Kreiner and Andreas Weiler has been accepted as a Research Project at the RCIS 2024…

31.05.24

New book from the ICT Accessibility Lab

Alireza Darvishy, head of the ICT Accessibility Lab, has published the book "Barrier-free research and teaching at universities" together with partners from UZH. This book presents recommendations on how universities can be made (more) accessible…

27.05.24

Paper “StatBot.Swiss: Bilingual Open Data Exploration in Natural Language“ Accepted in “Findings of the ACL 2024” - The Major International Conference on Natural Language Processing

The paper “StatBot.Swiss: Bilingual Open DataExploration in Natural Language” by ZHAW researchers Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Yi Zhang and Kurt Stockinger has been accepted in “Findings of the ACL 2024” (Association of Computational Linguistics). ACL is…

27.05.24

New article published in IEEE Access

Felix Schmitt-Koopmann et al. from the ICT-Accessibility Lab of the InIT has published a new article in the IEEE Access Journal: "MathNet: A Data-Centric Approach for Printed Mathematical Expression Recognition", where a new more realistic data set…

10.04.24

ICT-Accessibility project on SRF Radio science magazine - Visually impaired people have major problems reading PDFs

The SRF science magazine recently published a report about the problems of visually impaired people reading PDFs and interviewed ZHAW researchers (A. Darvishy, F. Schmitt-Koopmann) about the SNSF Bridge project "Accessible PDFs for All". Link:…

14.03.24

New professor at the School of Engineering

On February 6, 2024, the Board of the University of Applied Sciences awarded Dr. Marcela Ruiz from the InIT Institute of Computer Science the title of Professor ZHAW for Software Engineering. The InIT and the School of Engineering warmly congratulate…

13.03.24

New scoping review shows a lack of ethical considerations for students with disabilities in AI EdTech applications

ZHAW and UZH researchers (O. Pierrès, M. Christen, F. Schmitt-Koopmann, A. Darvishy) recently published the article Could the Use of AI in higher education hinder students with disabilities? A scoping review in IEEE Access. The study investigated…

28.02.24

Paper on the Analysis of Learned Query Optimizers Accepted at VLDB 2024 - The Major International Conference on Database Research

The paper “Is Your Learned Query Optimizer Behaving As You Expect: A Machine Learning Perspective” by Claude Lehmann, Pavel Sulimov and Kurt Stockinger has been accepted at VLDB 2024 (International Conference on Very Large Databases), which is…

17.01.24

QuantumBasel and ZHAW School of Engineering join Forces for Quantum Machine Learning Research

QuantumBasel, the centre of competence for quantum computing and artificial intelligence, and the ZHAW School of Engineering are entering into a research partnership. The strategic collaboration focuses on cutting-edge research projects in the…

08.12.23

Successful launch of the “Swiss AI Initiative”

A collaboration between ZHAW, ETH, EPFL, and other Swiss universities and research organisations brings together Switzerland’s AI expertise. The researchers will use the new supercomputer “Alps” to build ethical and transparent AI systems that have…

05.12.23

Paper on ScienceBenchmark Accepted at VLDB 2024 – The Major International Conference on Database Research

The paper ScienceBenchmark: A Complex Real-World Benchmark for Evaluating Natural Language to SQL Systems by Yi Zhang, Jan Deriu, George Katsogiannis-Meimarakis, Catherine Kosten, Georgia Koutrika, Kurt Stockinger has been accepted at VLDB 2024 (Very…

27.10.23

New Innosuisse project on automatic Graphics Description

The ICT Accessibility research group has received an Innosuisse grant for its new project, "Accessible Graphics: Semantic graphic description in PDFs for visually impaired people." The project aims to exploit the latest AI to generate text…

27.10.23

ICT Accessibility research group publishes a paper on automatic formula recognition in Neural Networks journal

A paper resulting from a PhD project in ICT Accessibility has been accepted and published in the October 2023 issue of the prestigious Neural Networks journal (impact factor: 9.6 in 2021). The paper proposes a novel deep neural model for the…

06.09.23

New Innosuisse project: Monitoring of AV media

The InIT Institute for Applied Information Technology, together with the CAI Center for Artificial Intelligence and the company Publicom AG and Eurospider Information Technology AG, has launched an Innosuisse project on September 1, which deals with…

04.09.23

Machine Learning Paper at VLDB – the Major International Conference on Data Management

Kurt Stockinger and Jonathan Fürst from the Intelligent Information Systems group recently attended the VLDB 2023 conference in Vancouver, Canada. VLDB stands as the premier international conference on data management. We are thrilled to announce…

06.07.23

Current Trends in Data Science – Highlights of the Swiss Data Science Conference

In a data-driven world, ZHAW data scientists are in high demand and work on a plethora of problems. This year’s Swiss Data Science Conference reflected the currently strong emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI), but there is more to data science…

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…

15.06.23

Exploring Swiss Open Data in Natural Language

ZHAW researchers Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Ellery Smith, Yi Zhang and Kurt Stockinger have teamed up with the Swiss Federal Statistical Office as well as with the Statistical Office from the Canton of Zurich  to explore open data in natural language.…

24.05.23

ZHAW Researchers Successfully Use Quantum Computers in Practice

Compared to classical computers, quantum computers can solve complex problems in parallel and therefore faster. However, they are also more prone to errors. ZHAW researchers Ruedi Füchslin and Kurt Stockinger show how the strengths of quantum…

24.05.23

Prof. Dr. Martin Braschler is the new head of InIT

Martin Braschler, lecturer and lead of a research group at the Institute for Applied Information Technology (InIT) since 2005, will take over as head of the institute on June 1, 2023. He succeeds Marc Rennhard, who has been appointed head of the IEM…

17.03.23

The Role of Data Scientists in Modern Enterprises

What training is required to become a data scientist? What is the role of data scientists in current enterprises?

31.01.23

Quantum Machine Learning is on the Rise

How practical are quantum computers? Researchers from ZHAW Datalab under supervision of Ruedi Füchslin (IAMP) and Kurt Stockinger (InIT) demonstrate that quantum machine learning algorithms can outperform their classical counterparts. This is the…

02.12.22

Digital Health Zurich funded by DIZH

The ZHAW Datalab and the ZHAW Digital Health Lab will work together with University of Zurich and the Zurich University Hospital in the project Digital Health Zurich. The project is funded by DIZH (Digital Initiative Zurich) with close to 4 million…

30.11.22

DICOM router project: more efficient use of medical image data

Medical institutions use the DICOM data standard to exchange their medical image information. Until now, however, medical professionals have been unable to access the data in a targeted and efficient manner. A platform developed by ZHAW researchers…

07.09.22

DIZH Structure «Cyber Resilience Network for the Canton of Zurich» approved

The «Cyber Resilience Network for the Canton of Zurich» is one of four interdisciplinary innovation structures that will be funded during the next five years by the Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH). InIT…

29.06.21

ZHAW presents intuitive search engine for scientific datasets

The ZHAW School of Engineering has developed an intuitive search function as part of an EU project. This allows information, for example on cancer research or astrophysics, to be found and evaluated in huge databases. The INODE project is funded by…

10.05.21

Workshop of EU-project INODE (Intelligent Open Data Exploration)

The first international workshop on the progress of EU-project INODE (Intelligent Open Data Exploration) will take place on May 21 @ 10:00. ZHAW is leading house of the INODE project.

31.03.21

ZHAW launches Centre for Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning and Deep Learning have established themselves as major fields of research at the ZHAW School of Engineering. Scientific expertise around artificial intelligence is increasingly sought-after. By repositioning itself within the…

11.02.21

Allowing chatbots to talk to each other for research purposes

Machine dialogue systems should behave in a manner that is as human-like as possible. ZHAW researchers have now developed a new process for the reliable evaluation of such chatbots, enabling various systems to talk to each other and then be assessed.

19.01.21

First BRIDGE discovery project: PDF documents should be made more easily accessible

At present, making PDF files accessible to the visually impaired still entails too much manual effort. ZHAW researchers are developing a semi-automatic system to solve this problem. The project is being funded by the federal government’s special…

04.12.20

Checking contracts with artificial intelligence

The startup Legartis offers a software solution that legally analyses contracts in a matter of seconds. This helps companies in reproducing their own guidelines when drafting contracts. This innovative and efficient method was developed at the ZHAW…

17.07.20

“GraphQueryML: Using Machine Learning to Optimize Queries in Graph Databases” accepted by SNSF/DFG

The proposal “GraphQueryML: Using Machine Learning to Optimize Queries in Graph Databases" by Kurt Stockinger (ZHAW) and Michael Grossniklaus (University of Konstanz) was accepted by SNSF/DFG and thus will receive funding from the Swiss National…

05.06.19

ZHAW researchers develop revolutionary method to digitise sheet music

The new scanning method for musical notes represents a milestone in computer-aided object recognition. A digital music stand can now convert printed sheet music into machine-readable notes twice as precisely as was possible before.

10.04.18

COST Conference AI in Finance and Instustry

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…