Department of Informatics – DDIS

Already more than one month into 2024, there is still time to reflect back on a year filled with numerous accomplishments, both on personal and team levels. We’re proud to share with you the accomplishments of DDIS throughout 2023! People We are also so pleased to welcome Daan as a PhD student working on the […]

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We are very excited to share that our colleague Ruijie Wang won The Scholarly QALD 2023: Semantic Web Challenge on Question Answering over Linked Data organized in the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference! Congratulations! Ruijie implemented NLQxform, a question-answering system to answer natural language questions on scholarly knowledge graphs. The system integrates a fine-tuned transformed-based […]

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The article “Active querying approach to epidemic source detection on contact networks” has been published in Nature Scientific Reports by DDIS alumni Dr. Martin Sterchi in collaboration with Lorenz Hilfiker, Rolf Grütter & Abraham Bernstein! The paper’s problem of interest is the identification of an epidemic’s patient zero given a network of contacts and a set of infected […]

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As 2022 draws to a close, we look back onto a year of many achievements, both individually and as a team. 2022 has been a special year for the DDIS group as we celebrated our 20th anniversary! Fittingly for this milestone, we’ve celebrated three successful PhD defences and welcomed five new members to our team. […]

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Earlier this month, DDIS members Fynn Bachmann, Miklovana Tuci, Cristina Sarasua and Prof. Abraham Bernstein joined a seminar on “Challenges and Opportunities of Democracy in the Digital Society” at Dagstuhl. The seminar was co-organized by Prof. Bernstein, Anita Gohdes, Steffen Staab, and Beth Noveck. For five days, scholars in computer science, political science, law, and […]

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On August 30, our colleague Matthias Baumgartner defended his PhD Thesis “How to Compare Apples to Oranges: Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources with Representation Learning” supervised by Prof. Abraham Bernstein. We wish Matthias all the best in his future endeavors!

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Abraham Bernstein and Michael Böhlen were recently interviewed on their SNF NFP 75 project Privacy-preserving, stream analytics for non-computer scientists. The interview highlight the main takeaways of the project.

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Congratulations to Yasamin Klinger (former guest member of DDIS working at ZHAW) and colleagues for their paper at EDBT 2022! “Evaluation of Algorithms for Interaction-Sparse Recommendations: Neural Networks don’t Always Win“ Authors: Yasamin Klingler, Claude Lehmann, João Pedro Monteiro, Carlo Saladin, Abraham Bernstein, Kurt Stockinger Abstract: “In recent years, top-K recommender systems with implicit feedback […]

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In the context of his bachelor thesis, Alexander Theus developed a method for scene-text extraction in video called HyText, based on intermittent detection and bi-directional tracking. The method is able to match existing approaches in accuracy while being substantially faster. Alexander Theus, together with our colleagues Luca Rossetto (supervisor of the bachelor thesis) and Abraham […]

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On February 24, our colleague Suzanne Tolmeijer defended her PhD Thesis “The Right Thing To Do? Artificial Intelligence for Ethical Decision Making” supervised by Prof. Abraham Bernstein. While we are sad to see her leave our group, we are extremely happy for her and wish her all the best in her new endeavors! Suzanne will […]

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