UZH Institut für Informatik

Join us for the IfI Colloquium to hear Michael Cochez from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.  In his talk, he will introduce how graph-based knowledge can be used by machine learning systems, retaining both flexibility and robustness. Talk: «Knowledge Infused Learning»  Date: 21 November 2024 Time: 17:15 - 18:30 Location: BIN 2.A.01, Campus Oerlikon Colloquium program: https://lnkd.in/eXjZAKAv #ificolloquium #research #ifiuzh

Join us next Monday at 19:30 in the Aula. In her inaugural lecture, Giorgia Ramponi will present an overview of fundamental concepts in learning for sequential decision-making, emphasizing its critical role in domains where decisions evolve over time, including robotics, finance, and automated systems. Inaugural lecture: «Learning to Act: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of Decision-Making» Date: 18 November 2024 Time: 19:30-20:15 Location: Aula of the University of Zurich (KOL-G-201, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich) Details: https://lnkd.in/ercrz6fU #autonomous #learning #ifiuzh #uzh

Join us for the IfI Colloquium to hear Philipp Leitner, Professor of Software Engineering at Chalmers and University of Gothenburg.  He will talk about the challenges of correctly measuring the performance of even simple code, and discuss why machine learning and large language models failed to provide the simple answers we were all hoping for. Talk: «Measuring, Predicting, and Improving the Performance of Software Systems»  Date: 14 November 2024 Time: 17:15 - 18:30 Location: BIN 2.A.01, Campus Oerlikon Colloquium program: https://lnkd.in/eXjZAKAv #ificolloquium #research #ifiuzh

«Wir erleben einen Durchbruch, der die KI ins Bewusstsein der breiten Bevölkerung katapultiert hat», sagte Abraham Bernstein, Informatik-Professor, auf die Frage, ob wir wegen der Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) vor einer Revolution der Arbeitswelt stehen. Er diskutierte im Talk im Turm mit David Dorn, Professor für Globalisierung und Arbeitsmärkte. Wer den Talk im Turm verpasst hat, kann das Gespräch hier nachhören: https://lnkd.in/e_Pu7uuN #KI #talkimturm #ifiuzh #uzh

Join us for the next talk in the IfI Research Talk Series. Aniko Hannak, head of the Social Computing Group, will present a selection of projects, including user-centred studies on various online technologies, the impact of recommender systems, and the use of simulations to complement empirical research. Talk: «The Social Computing Group: Intro to our research» Date: 6 November 2024 Time: 13:15 - 13:45 Location: BIN 2.A.01, Campus Oerlikon Program: https://lnkd.in/eY8iQh_U #researchtalkseries #ifiuzh #uzh

Congratulations! Juergen Bernard, head of the Interactive Visual Data Analysis Group at the UZH Department of Informatics, has been awarded a Schweizerischer Nationalfonds SNF Grant on «Personalized Visual Analytics: Human Preference Elicitation for Ranking-Based Multi-Criteria Decision Support». Together with Mennatallah El-Assady, head of the Interactive Visualization and Intelligence Augmentation Lab at ETH Zürich, he will explore multi-criteria decision support through interactive item ranking, as an understudied research direction for people lost in choosing between thousands of relevant items (cars, houses, stocks, etc.). Their Visual Analytics approach will support this complex human decision-making task by bringing together human intellectuality with the computational power of algorithms and AI in effective human-in-the-loop approaches. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/esF8w8Rm #SNFGrant #ifiuzh

Congratulations to Davide Scaramuzza and his team on being awarded the Jury Award at the CYBATHLON 2024!

Seit 25 Jahren analysiert Robert Weiss den Schweizer PC-Markt. Der Experte für Computergeschichte lädt diese Woche zur Zeitreise ein. Am Anfang steht der Mathematiker und Instrumentenbauer Jost Bürgin aus dem Toggenburg (1552-1632), der als kaiserlicher Hofuhrmacher zusammen mit Johannes Kepler arbeitete.  Zwölf Persönlichkeiten aus der Schweiz, zwölf Beiträge zur Digitalisierung. Vortrag: «Wer hat es erfunden?» Datum: 31. Oktober 2024 Uhrzeit: 17:15-18:00 Uhr Ort: Institut für Informatik, Campus Oerlikon, Raum BIN 2.A.01 #digitalisierung #kultur #ifiuzh

Together with Viktor von Wyl (Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care), also from the University of Zurich (UZH), I have received a DSI Infrastructure & Lab Grant from the Digital Society Initiative for our project STAG - Statistical Time Series Analysis Guide. Sensing, such as in wearable devices, presents clinicians and UZH researchers with novel opportunities, but also with difficult challenges. The data size, complexity, and multi-modality can lead to research workflows with poor replicability and a lack of robust protocols. STAG (Statistical Time Series Analysis Guide) will empower UZH researchers by easing time series data exploration, processing, and management in their scientific workflows, increasing their rigor and efficiency. https://lnkd.in/ddKyqfzC https://lnkd.in/dY6wbH6p

Congratulations to Dhivyabharathi Ramasamy on successfully defending her PhD thesis titled «Towards AI-Assisted Data Science Development. Decoding, Visualising, and Enhancing Human-AI Collaboration for Data Science Workflows in Practice». Her thesis addresses critical challenges in data science development and presents a robust framework for empirically studying data science workflows. She investigates the challenges and potential of AI assistants, such as the GPT-4 model, in performing data science tasks and proposes methods to generate more effective coding recommendations. Additionally, she presents solutions to improve the comprehension of data science code. Through these contributions, her research paves the way for smarter tools to support data scientists using computational notebooks and advances AI-assisted development in the field of data science. We wish Dhivya all the best for the future! #PhD #thesis #DataScience #GenerativeAI #AIAssistants #HCI #ifiuzh