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…

24.05.24

First ZHAW Datalab Meetup on the topic of Quantum Machine Learning

The first ZHAW Datalab Meetup focussed on the topic of quantum machine learning - from theory to practical application.

17.05.24

ZHAW Datalab is scientific partner of the Swiss Conference on Data Science

The IEEE Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS) is the most important conference for applied data science in Switzerland. 11 years ago, the ZHAW Datalab kickstarted this event – this year it is the scientific partner and Datalab members are present…

16.05.24

CAI with SKACH at Fantasy Basel

For the first time this year, the «Square Kilometre Array Observatory» (SKAO), the world’s biggest radio telescope, was presented at Fantasy Basel. As member of the Swiss SKA consortium (SKACH), ZHAW (CAI) researchers helped in communicating the…

15.05.24

ZHAW CAI launches the Apéro Digital Event Series with a workshop on AI certification

Apéro Digital, a new series of interdisciplinary events, will discuss how can we assess and certify the trustworthiness of AI systems. Featuring different organizations developing labs for AI trust, we will discuss which criteria, methods and process…

08.05.24

CAI releases research report 2023

Need an AI inspiration, an idea, a solution? Chances are you find it in our research report 2023!

10.04.24

Deep neural networks are cheating

How do state-of-the-art models for automatic speaker recognition learn to recognize voices? A team of UZH and CAI researchers catches them "in flagranti": more comprehensive dynamic-prosodic features are not even learnt when forced.

10.04.24

CAI takes a look at AI‘s role in the energy transition

AI can help to better infer sub-surface conditions for safe use of geothermics; of course it should become more energy-efficient itself.

09.04.24

CAI to deliver keynote on AI in Medicine at Day of Innovation and Research 2024 at KSA

Stemming from the ongoing collaboration with the Cantonal Hospital Aarau, Prof. Dr. Thilo Stadelmann presents insights into the use and benefits of AI in Medicine

11.03.24

New Professor for Explainable AI

Dr. Jasmina Bogojeska was appointed as Professor for AI & ML on 6th February 2024 by the Council of the Universities of Applied Sciences of the Canton of Zurich after a rigorous selection process.

11.03.24

CAI in the news: 10vor10 report on the "Virtual Kids" project

The Swiss Television (SRF) program 10vor10 reports on the "Virtual Kids" project in "The Idea” segment.

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…

08.02.24

Three new research groups at the CAI

Since September 2023, the groups on Responsible AI, Industrial AI and Cybernetic Learning Systems started their endeavor.

07.02.24

Lab Sciences Award 2024 to BA Students Martin Oswald and Tenzin Langdun

After already receiving the regional Siemens Excellence Award 2023, Martin Oswald and Tenzin S. Langdun are among the winners of the Lab Sciences Award 2024.

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…

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…

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.

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.

19.10.23

Our paper on "Automated Machine Learning in Practice" wins Most Cited Paper Award at IEEE SDS 2023

On its tenth anniversary, SDS honored the publication with the most citations since its inception. The winner was the publication "Automated Machine Learning in Practice: State of the Art and Recent Results" by CAI researchers in collaboration with…