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"Chat GPT has no idea about logic"
- Artificial intelligence
- Machine learning
- Faculty
- News
Professor Menna El-Assady shines a torch into the black box of generative AI and talks about how a model makes decisions and whether we can correct them.
How data provided by fitness trackers and smartphones can help people with MS
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- ETH AI Center
- Sensing, Interaction & Perception Lab
- Biomedical Informatics Group
- Researchers in focus
- Medical and bioinformatics
- News und highlights
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
Monitoring and treating a case of multiple sclerosis requires reliable and long-term data on how the disease is progressing in the person in question. Fitness trackers and smartphones can supply this data, as a research team led by ETH Zurich has now shown.
Faster diagnosis of endometriosis with AI
- Spotlight
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Artificial intelligence
- ETH AI Center
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
ETH spin-off dAIgnose is developing an algorithm that can be used to analyse ultrasound images of the womb on an automated basis. This should enable doctors to diagnose endometriosis more quickly in the future.
Master in Data Science
- ETH AI Center
- Video
- D-MATH
- D-INFK
- Front – Spotlight
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- D-ITET
- Machine learning
- Faculty
- Students
- SDSC - Swiss Data Science Center
- Data science
Studying Data Science at ETH Zurich means being part of one of the most exciting driving forces of today’s Information Age. To gain deeper insights into the field, we have talked to various students, professors, and an alumna. In these video conversations, the interviewees elaborate on the growing need and importance of data science – both now and in the future.
Welcome, April Yi Wang
- Spotlight
- Machine learning
- Human-computer interaction
- Institute for Intelligent Interactive Systems
- Front – Spotlight
- Welcome interview
In this interview, Professor Wang offers a brief insight into her research interests and explains why she decided to pursue an academic career. She also shares her advice for computer science students and discusses the three pedagogical principles that guide her teaching and mentoring.
New cleft lip and palate treatment solution
- News
- Medical and bioinformatics
- Machine learning
Researchers from the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, in collaboration with clinical care researchers at the University Hospital Basel, have developed a new treatment solution for children born with a cleft lip and palate. Learn more about the treatment and its implementation in the video.
Predictions of the effect of drugs on individual cells are now possible
- Spotlight
- ETH AI Center
- Biomedical Informatics Group
- News und highlights
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Centers and cooperations
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
Experts from ETH Zurich including Professor Gunnar Rätsch, the University of Zurich, and the University Hospital Zurich have used machine learning to jointly create an innovative method. This new approach can predict how individual cells react to specific treatments, offering hope for more accurate diagnoses and therapeutics.
Torsten Hoefler joins CSCS as Chief Architect for Machine Learning
- Artificial intelligence
- High-performance computing
- News
- Institute for High Performance Computing Systems
- Data centres
- Centers and cooperations
- Machine learning
- Faculty
From Sept. 1, 2023, Professor Torsten Hoefler will be affiliated with the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). CSCS, with its upcoming new “Alps” high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure, and the ETH professor want to jointly test and advance methods and applications for machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
How AI models teach themselves to learn new things
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- Scientific staff
- Algorithms and Optimization
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Institute of Theoretical Computer Science
Large language models such as GPT-3 are able to learn new concepts by interacting with their users. Doctoral student Johannes von Oswald reports in an interview on what lies behind this ability.
How AI technology from ETH animates the fire creatures in the latest Pixar movie
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- Artificial intelligence
- DisneyResearch|Studios
- Machine learning
- Visual computing
- Front – Spotlight
- Computer Graphics Laboratory
An AI-based 3D simulation technology developed in the Computer Graphics Lab of Professor Barbara Solenthaler brings life to the characters of Elemental, the latest animated film from Walt Disney Studios and Pixar Animation Studio. The movie was just released in Swiss cinemas.
Gaspard Zoss and Yifan Wang receive the Eurographics PhD Award
- Visual computing
- Machine learning
- Award
- Computer Graphics Laboratory
Gaspard Zoss and Yifan Wang have been awarded the 2023 Eurographics PhD Award for the high quality and impact of their doctoral dissertations. They received their price at the Annual Eurographics Conference that took place at the beginning of May.
Saving lives with Artificial Intelligence
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- Artificial intelligence
- Information Science and Engineering
- Algorithms
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
Doctoral student Fabian Laumer and his colleagues are using machine learning to develop new personalised 3D models of the beating human heart. Their objective is to assist clinicians and improve the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, the most prevalent cause of deaths worldwide.
A new form of human-computer interaction
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Secure, Reliable, and Intelligent Systems Lab
- Research
Luca Beurer-Kellner, Marc Fischer and Prof. Martin Vechev created a new open-source platform and programming language called LMQL that make it easier, cheaper, and safer to interact with large language models like ChatGPT.
Tracing a digital shadow
- Spotlight
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Information Science and Engineering
- Research
Psychologist Verena Zimmermann joins computer scientists Joachim Buhmann and Elgar Fleisch to discuss whether our feelings can be measured, what role they play in human-machine interactions, and the use of smart technologies.
In search for the intelligent machine
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- ETH AI Center
- Robotics and drones
- Algorithms
- Centers and cooperations
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
ETH AI Center fellow Elvis Nava teaches robots to carry out oral and written commands. To this end, he sends them to “training camps” where they learn to combine image, text and motion data.
More precise treatment
- Artificial intelligence
- Spotlight
- Biomedical Informatics Group
- Medical and bioinformatics
- News und highlights
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
The mTORUS project, funded by The LOOP Zurich, will use AI to explore novel treatments for urinary tract infections. Professor Gunnar Rätsch and Senior Scientist Andre Kahles from the Biomedical Informatics Lab are among the researchers involved.
D-INFK spin-off LatticeFlow raises $12M
- News
- Machine learning
- Spin-off
LatticeFlow, a spin-off from the Department of Computer Science, raises $12M to eliminate computer vision blind spots. The company helps machine learning teams improve their AI vision models by automatically diagnosing issues and improving both the data and the models themselves.
Google PhD Fellowship for Clara Meister
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Rycolab
- Machine learning
- Award
Clara Meister, doctoral student at Rycolab at the Department of Computer Science, was awarded the prestigious Google PhD Fellowship. The Fellowship programme was created to recognise outstanding students doing innovative research in areas relevant to computer science.
Welcome, Professor Florian Tramèr
- Institute of Information Security
- Security
- Welcome interview
- Machine learning
- Faculty
- Front – Spotlight
- Staff
Florian Tramèr joined the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich in August 2022 as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Get to know him in this short interview.
ICML Outstanding Paper Award for Riccardo De Santi
- Machine learning
- Award
- Students
Riccardo De Santi, Master’s student at the Department of Computer Science, has won the Outstanding Paper Award at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2022). Congratulations!
Cyber-Defence Fellowships: Alessandro Stolfo
- Machine learning
- News
- Security
- Cyber Defence Campus
In an interview with EPFL, Alessandro Stolfo, doctoral student at the Department of Computer Science and recipient of the third recipient of a Doctoral CYD Fellowship, talks about his current research and shares tips for future applicants.
A smart use of AI
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- Spin-off
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Machine learning
- Careers
- Front – Spotlight
- Diversity
- Data Analytics
ETH alumna Paulina Grnarova wants to use artificial intelligence to revolutionise the way the legal industry works. Her recent appearance on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list has catapulted her into the spotlight.
Using statistical methods to predict the course of disease
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- ETH AI Center
- Researchers in focus
- Medical and bioinformatics
- Medical Data Science
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Centers and cooperations
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
- Centres
Data contains much more than just the information on the surface. With statistics, deeper cause-and-effect relationships can be brought to light. This is what Alexander Marx is researching as a Fellow at the ETH AI Center using artificial intelligence. One of his goals is to be able to make predictions regarding diabetes in children.
New partnership with Bulgaria for artificial intelligence
- Artificial intelligence
- ETH AI Center
- Machine learning
- News
Today, in partnership with ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne, the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Technology (INSAIT) has been launched in Sofia. Professor Martin Vechev from the Department of Computer Science has supported the initiative from the beginning.
Automatically filter and block cookies
- Security
- Research Keywords
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
- Spotlight
- Institute of Information Security
- News und highlights
- Information Security Group
- Topic
- Format
- Research Groups
- Machine learning
- D-INFK
Cookie consent banners only appear to give users control over their data. Researchers from the Information Security Group have developed a browser extension that uses machine learning to recognise and block unnecessary cookies.
How human and artificial intelligence can augment one another
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- ETH AI Center
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Data science
Mennatallah El-Assady develops explainable AI programs that explain their own workings – and let users provide input. Her speciality is interactive information visualisation, a skill she has brought to the AI Center of ETH Zurich, where she was recently appointed a Pioneer Fellow. Her work can help analysts take a deep dive into political debate.
ERC Starting Grants for Julia Vogt and Ce Zhang
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Machine learning
- Award
- Medical and bioinformatics
- Institute for Computing Platforms (Systems Group)
Professor Julia Vogt from the Institute for Machine Learning and Professor Ce Zhang from the Institute for Computing Platforms receive ERC Starting Grants for their respective research projects. Researchers whose projects are selected in the ERC’s highly competitive procedure receive not only international recognition, but also substantial funding for their project.
The world is watching: youth and artificial intelligence combat climate change
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- News und highlights
- Studies
- Machine learning
- Initiatives
- Front – Spotlight
- Data Sciences, Data Systems, and Data Services
- Institute for Computing Platforms (Systems Group)
- Research
David Dao, a doctoral student in the DS3Lab at the Department of Computer Science, visited the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference and explains what computer science can do to help.
Facebook Research Award for Prof. Ana Klimovic
- Efficient Architectures and Systems Lab
- Machine learning
- Award
- Institute for Computing Platforms (Systems Group)
Professor Ana Klimovic from the Systems Group was granted the prestigious Facebook Research Award. The award aims to support innovative solutions to the challenges that still remain in the data management community.
“Trustworthy AI requires interdisciplinary collaboration”
- Learning and Adaptive Systems
- Artificial intelligence
- Spotlight
- ETH AI Center
- Video
- News und highlights
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Centers and cooperations
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
How transparent are decisions that are based on artificial intelligence and machine learning? Professor Andreas Krause, Chair of the ETH AI Center and head of the Learning and Adaptive Systems group, shares his thoughts on trustworthy artificial intelligence.
Professor Andreas Krause receives Rössler Prize
- Learning and Adaptive Systems
- Artificial intelligence
- ETH AI Center
- Machine learning
- Award
- SDSC - Swiss Data Science Center
Professor Andreas Krause, head of the Learning & Adaptive Systems Group at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, Academic Co-Director of the Swiss Data Science Center and Chair of the ETH AI Center, has been honoured with the Rössler Prize.
Early endeavours on the path to reliable quantum machine learning
- ETH AI Center
- Research Keywords
- Front – Spotlight
- Data Sciences, Data Systems, and Data Services
- Research
- Spotlight
- News und highlights
- Topic
- Format
- Research Groups
- Machine learning
- D-INFK
- Institute for Computing Platforms (Systems Group)
- Centres
The future quantum computers should be capable of super-fast and reliable computation. Researchers at the DS3Lab conduct an early exploration for reliable quantum machine learning.
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed an AI touchscreen with super-resolution
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- Sensing, Interaction & Perception Lab
- News und highlights
- Machine learning
- Human-computer interaction
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
Researchers from the Sensing, Interaction & Perception Lab have developed CapContact, an AI solution that enables touchscreens to sense with eight times higher resolution than currently existing devices.
Students find the answers with AI
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- Studies
- Teaching
- Machine learning
- Students
- Front – Spotlight
- Data Sciences, Data Systems, and Data Services
- Institute for Computing Platforms (Systems Group)
- Data science
How does one find what one is looking for among the numerous publications and research areas of ETH Zurich? To answer this question, ETH staff teamed up with students from the Master’s in Data Science.
Theodoros Rekatsinas appointed Tenure Track Assistant Professor
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Artificial intelligence
- Machine learning
- News
- Data science
Theodoros Rekatsinas has been appointed Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science. He researches databases, data processing and data science.
Welcome, Professor Niao He
- Foundations of Operations Research and Machine Learning
- Welcome interview
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Machine learning
- Faculty
- Front – Spotlight
- Diversity
- Data science
- Staff
Niao He joined the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Data Science. Get to know her in this short interview.
ELLIS PhD Award for former doctoral student Felix Berkenkamp
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Learning and Adaptive Systems
- Research Groups
- Machine learning
- Award
- Algorithms
Felix Berkenkamp, a former doctoral student in the Learning & Adaptive Systems Group, has received the annual ELLIS PhD Award for his doctoral thesis.
New centre for AI research
- Spotlight
- Learning and Adaptive Systems
- Artificial intelligence
- ETH AI Center
- Medical and bioinformatics
- Medical Data Science
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Centers and cooperations
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
- Centres
The newly opened ETH AI Center intensifies the dialogue with business, politics and society about an innovative and trust-building advancement of artificial intelligence.
Our actual attention is now measurable
- Spotlight
- Institute for Intelligent Interactive Systems
- News und highlights
- Visual computing
- Machine learning
- Human-computer interaction
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
Mihai Bâce, a doctoral student at the Institute for Intelligent Interactive Systems, has developed with a small group of researchers a system to measure the visual attention paid to a smartphone.
Giving computers a voice
- Spotlight
- Rycolab
- Institute for Machine Learning
- MTC - Media Technology Center
- Centers and cooperations
- Machine learning
- Human-computer interaction
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
- Centres
The Media Technology Center is teaching computers to speak Swiss German and searching for applications that could lend a hand with day-to-day editorial work. Professor Ryan Cotterell brings together linguistics, automated language processing and artificial intelligence to change the one-solution approach that modern translation programs typically offer.
Everything AI?
- Learning and Adaptive Systems
- ETH AI Center
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems
- Research
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- News und highlights
- Centers and cooperations
- Machine learning
- D-INFK
- Data Analytics
- Centres
ETH Zurich promotes innovation in AI technology. This includes the extension of its partnership with the Max Planck Society, the launch of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) and the opening of the ETH AI Center. Professors Thomas Hofmann and Andreas Krause are at the forefront of these efforts.
Foundations for trustworthy artificial intelligence
- Spotlight
- Learning and Adaptive Systems
- Artificial intelligence
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Centers and cooperations
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
The European AI network ELLIS celebrates its launch today, with ETH Zurich as a founding member. The ELLIS Unit is an integral part of the new ETH AI Center, which are both chaired by Prof. Andreas Krause.
Mapping the depths of the genome
- Spotlight
- Medical and bioinformatics
- News und highlights
- Computational Genetics and Epigenetics of Cancer
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Diversity
- Research
Valentina Boeva, Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Department of Computer Science, uses modern methods of machine learning to analyse the whole-genome sequence of a tumour. One focus of her research is on epigenetic changes in tumour cells. These are temporary and reversible changes in the genome.
Welcome, Professor Ana Klimovic
- Efficient Architectures and Systems Lab
- Artificial intelligence
- Welcome interview
- Data centres
- Machine learning
- Cloud computing
- Faculty
- Front – Spotlight
- Diversity
- Institute for Computing Platforms (Systems Group)
- Staff
Ana Klimovic officially joined the Department of Computer Science of ETH Zurich in August 2020 as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Due to the coronavirus crisis, her arrival was postponed until September. Get to know her in this short interview.
How Machine Learning can help in medicine
- Medical and bioinformatics
- Medical Data Science
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- News und highlights
- Algorithms
- Topic
- Machine learning
- Statistical Machine Learning
- Diversity
- D-INFK
In the latest episode of the ETH podcast Professors Julia Vogt and Fanny Yang explain why machine learning is an important tool in medicine.
Welcome, Professor Mrinmaya Sachan
- Machine learning
- Faculty
- Front – Spotlight
- Welcome interview
- Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
- Staff
Mrinmaya Sachan officially joined the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich in July 2020 as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. Due to the coronavirus crisis, his arrival was postponed until August. Get to know him in this short interview.
“It’s almost like a drug”
- Spotlight
- Studies
- Machine learning
- Students
- Careers
- Front – Spotlight
- Data science
- Start-up
From an early age, Patrice Becker had an interest in computer science. He was fascinated by the idea of being able to reach the whole world with just a laptop and some programming skills. Today, the computer science student successfully combines studies and entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich.
Niao He appointed Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Machine learning
- News
- Foundations of Operations Research and Machine Learning
Prof. Niao He’s research explores the point at which the optimisation of large-scale systems intersects with machine learning techniques.
Prof. Andreas Krause receives ICML Test of Time Award
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Learning and Adaptive Systems
- Machine learning
- Award
The International Conference on Machine Learning award committee has recognized Prof. Andreas Krause and his collaborators with a Test of Time Award for the paper "Gaussian Process Optimization in the Bandit Setting: No Regret and Experimental Design".
“The greatest success would be if the centre were to be absorbed into something bigger”
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Centers and cooperations
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems
- D-INFK
- Data Analytics
- Research
- Centres
The Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems has just been renewed for another five years. Co-director Prof. Thomas Hofmann explains the role he sees for the center in Europe.
One software for all documents
- Spotlight
- Machine learning
- Spin-off
- Careers
- Front – Spotlight
- Algorithms
Entering invoices, checking delivery slips, auditing expense receipts – all these tasks can be tedious and repetitive. ETH spin-off BLP Digital invented a solution to provide some relief.
Can AI help tackle climate change?
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- News und highlights
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Data Sciences, Data Systems, and Data Services
- Institute for Computing Platforms (Systems Group)
- Research
Doctoral student David Dao (D-INFK) and postdoctoral researcher Lynn Kaack (D-GESS) speak on the ETH Podcast about how we can use AI to help in the fight against climate change.
“This is a step forward in our quest to understand fatigue”
- Spotlight
- Pervasive computing
- Institute for Intelligent Interactive Systems
- Medical and bioinformatics
- News und highlights
- Machine learning
- Human-computer interaction
- Front – Spotlight
- Diversity
- Research
The majority of multiple sclerosis patients consider fatigue the single most wearing symptom. And yet, fatigue is still poorly understood. Doctoral student Liliana Barrios wants to change that by introducing smartphone-based methods enabling patients to measure their motor fatigability remotely and more frequently.
The virtual made real
- Spotlight
- Rycolab
- Institute for Machine Learning
- MTC - Media Technology Center
- Centers and cooperations
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Virtual and augmented reality
- Research
- Centres
A step towards new media worlds: The Media Technology Center at ETH Zurich is researching how Augmented Reality can be applied to everyday life and supports media companies on their path to the future.
ETH Zurich and the canton of Bern: fighting coronavirus together
- Biomedical Informatics Group
- News
- Medical and bioinformatics
- News und highlights
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Topic
- Machine learning
- D-INFK
- Research
To better track the coronavirus in Switzerland, biomedical informatics specialists from ETH Zurich and the canton of Bern have combined their online questionnaires on the shared platform covidtracker.ch.
FPGA Computing Platform for machine learning in data analytics
- Spotlight
- Information and Communication Systems
- News und highlights
- Topic
- Machine learning
- Cloud computing
- Front – Spotlight
- Institute for Computing Platforms (Systems Group)
- Research
In this interview, pioneer fellow Mohsen Ewaida (group Prof. Alonso) speaks about his first software product "SnowBell", using Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices to run machine-learning applications.
International Women's Day – interview with Prof. Julia Vogt
- Researchers in focus
- Medical and bioinformatics
- Medical Data Science
- Studies
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
- Staff
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- Topic
- Machine learning
- Faculty
- Initiatives
- Diversity
- D-INFK
- Data science
In light of International Women's Day 2020, ETH Zurich puts successful women centre stage. Read about Prof. Julia Vogt, tenure track assistant professor of medical data science, in this article.
Predicting circulatory failure with machine learning
- Spotlight
- Biomedical Informatics Group
- Medical and bioinformatics
- News und highlights
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
Prof. Gunnar Rätsch co-led the effort to develop a method to predict circulatory failure in patients in intensive care using machine learning.
Welcome, Professor Ryan Cotterell
- Artificial intelligence
- Rycolab
- Welcome interview
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Machine learning
- Faculty
- Front – Spotlight
Ryan Cotterell officially joined ETH Zurich’s Department of Computer Science in February 2020 as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Get to know him in this short interview.
Redrawing the map of cancer genome research
- Spotlight
- Biomedical Informatics Group
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Medical and bioinformatics
- News und highlights
Die genetischen Ursachen von Krebs sind noch vielfältiger als bisher wissenschaftlich belegt, sagt Prof. Gunnar Rätsch sowie Forschende der ETH Zürich und des Universitätspitals im Rahmen des Pan-Cancer-Projekts.
Welcome, Professor Siyu Tang
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- Welcome interview
- Machine learning
- Visual computing
- Faculty
- Front – Spotlight
- Diversity
- Computer Vision and Learning Group
- Institute of Visual Computing
- Staff
Siyu Tang officially joined the Department of Computer Science of ETH Zurich in January 2020 as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computer Vision. Get to know her in this short interview.
Welcome, Professor Fanny Yang
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- Welcome interview
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Machine learning
- Faculty
- Front – Spotlight
- Statistical Machine Learning
- Diversity
- Staff
Fanny Yang officially joined the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich in January 2020 as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Get to know her in this short interview.
Artificial intelligence can help combat climate change
- Artificial intelligence
- Spotlight
- Researchers in focus
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Data Sciences, Data Systems, and Data Services
- Institute for Computing Platforms (Systems Group)
- Research
Initially, he wanted to be a particle physicist. Today, he helps protect the rainforest using artificial intelligence and blockchain. David Dao, a doctoral student at the DS3Lab at the Department of Computer Science, travelled to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid in December to present his research. In an interview, he explains how artificial intelligence can help the climate, but how it also poses risks.
Leonel Aguilar awarded as an innovator under 35
- Artificial intelligence
- Machine learning
- Award
- Data Sciences, Data Systems, and Data Services
For his interdisciplinary research on how to evacuate large cities, postdoctoral researcher Leonel Aguilar won a prize for "Innovators under 35 in Latin America".
Rainforest preservation through machine learning
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- News und highlights
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Data Sciences, Data Systems, and Data Services
- Institute for Computing Platforms (Systems Group)
- Research
Doctoral student David Dao develops intelligent algorithms that use satellite and drone images of rainforests to predict deforestation. Today, he will be presenting his research at the climate conference in Madrid.
AI probes dark matter in the universe
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- News und highlights
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Data Analytics
- Data science
- Research
A team of physicists and computer scientists at ETH Zurich have programmed computers to teach themselves how to extract relevant information from maps of the universe.
New ETH centre for the fundamentals of data science
- Spotlight
- Centers and cooperations
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- SDSC - Swiss Data Science Center
- Data science
- Research
- Centres
The new ETH+ initiative to strengthen data science, spread across several departments, was launched in January 2019.
Professor Rätsch, welcome to ETH
- Biomedical Informatics Group
- Welcome interview
- Medical and bioinformatics
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Machine learning
- Faculty
- Front – Spotlight
- Data science
- Staff
Gunnar Rätsch joined the Computer Science Department as a Full Professor of Biomedical Informatics in May 2016. Prior to accepting this position, he was conducting research at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, NY, USA. Professor Rätsch develops machine learning algorithms for the analysis of biological and medical data. His research will be central in ETH Zurich's initiative for personalized medicine.
Professor Zhang, welcome to ETH
- Welcome interview
- Machine learning
- Faculty
- Front – Spotlight
- Data Sciences, Data Systems, and Data Services
- Institute for Computing Platforms (Systems Group)
- Data science
- Staff
Ce Zhang joined the Department of Computer Science as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor on September 1st of 2016. He joins us from his post-doctoral research at Stanford University, California, USA. His research interests are in the areas of databases, data processing, machine learning and data science. He links conventional areas of databases and information retrieval with new methods of machine learning.
When machines learn
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- Information Science and Engineering
- News und highlights
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems
- Data Analytics
- Research
Big data, artificial intelligence, industry 4.0 – the new opportunities information technologies offer will change the world. Take a glimpse inside the world of researchers who teach machines how to think.
Teaching machines how to learn
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Centers and cooperations
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems
- Data Analytics
- Research
- Centres
Machines will become not just more intelligent in the future, but also more capable of learning. To promote research in this field, ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Society officially open the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems today. The scientists want to understand the theoretical principles of learning and how these can be applied to real machines.
Teaching machines how to learn
- Spotlight
- Information Science and Engineering
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Centers and cooperations
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Data Analytics
- Data science
- Research
The machines that surround us in everyday life are not only becoming more intelligent, they’re also turning into gifted learners. To prepare the next generation of computer scientists for the challenges presented by this rapidly developing research area, ETH Zurich has joined forces with the Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems.
Shifting the paradigm: pioneering research network in learning systems established
- Learning and Adaptive Systems
- Spotlight
- Information Science and Engineering
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Computer Vision and Geometry Group
- Centers and cooperations
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Data Analytics
- Institute of Visual Computing
- Research
ETH and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have joined forces to form a research network in learning systems.
Deobfuscating JavaScript through program analysis and machine learning
- Spotlight
- Secure, Reliable, and Intelligent Systems Lab
- News und highlights
- Programming languages
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
- Institute for Programming Languages and Systems
Software reliability, piracy and tampering are serious and well known threats the world is faced with. Significant attempts have been made to protect software from reverse engineering and tampering. Last week, the Software Reliability Lab at ETH Zurich, headed by Prof. Martin Vechev, released a system called JSNice which makes obfuscated and minified JavaScript code readable again. The system has already been used by more than 34,000 developers in over 140 countries.
Automating experience
- Spotlight
- Information Science and Engineering
- News und highlights
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Data science
- Research
Nowadays, evaluating large amounts of data enables us to examine issues for which there were still no viable theories until only recently. Two ETH computer science-professors, Joachim M. Buhmann and Donald Kossmann, explain how this will change society.