01.02.24

ZHAW digital funds 14 new projects

14 new projects are being funded by ZHAW digital as part of the Digital Futures Fund (DFF). These include projects for internal digital transformation and innovative research projects.

18.01.24

Swiss Global AI Award 2023 presented to Yann LeCun

Congratulations to Yann LeCun for winning the Global Swiss AI Award for his outstanding global impact in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The French computer scientist is one of the pioneers of machine learning and is currently Vice…

11.01.24

Four start-up projects receive DIZH funding

As part of the DIZH Founder Call, four ZHAW projects will be funded that aim to establish a start-up or spin-off.

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

Climate change, health, education: 12 researchers start their DIZH Fellowships

For the fifth time, DIZH Fellowships have been awarded to outstanding ZHAW researchers who wish to work on digital transformation projects in a research cluster.

20.11.23

BSc Student with Internship at Harvard University

During the summer, our BSc Student Gabriel Nobel had the privilege of completing a three-month internship at Harvard University. He was part of the Visual Computing Group, led by Hanspeter Pfister.

01.11.23

DIZH funding for long-term projects: Apply now!

The Structure Call in the DIZH Innovation Program supports long-term innovation structures over a period of up to 5 years.

30.10.23

Mohammadreza Amirian successfully defends PhD thesis on trustworthy AI

The dissertation on “Deep Learning for Robust and Explainable Models in Computer Vision” brought about important discoveries over a series of applied research projects with practice partners and was evaluated with “magna cum laude” at Ulm University,…

30.10.23

ZHAW CAI expert on Responsible AI Innovation gives keynote on geopolitics of neurotechnology innovation

Ricardo Chavarriaga, group leader on Responsible AI Innovation of the ZHAW Center for Artificial Intelligence (CAI), gave a keynote on the topic of "Geopolitics of Neurotechnologies" at the Brain Innovation days in Brussels.

11.10.23

Digitisation in the nursing sector: People or robots – do we have a choice?

Nursing professionals can certainly imagine the use of robots in their workplace – at least within certain limits. A ZHAW study also shows care recipients to be surprisingly open-minded as regards the use of new technologies.