Department of Informatics – DDIS

The Web Conference, the leading scientific forum on the web and related technologies, ran from April 20th to April 24th. Initially planned to be held in Taiwan, the conference moved to an online setting due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this unusual setting, DDIS presented a study on differentially-private stream processing for the semantic web. […]

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Last weekend, from April 3 to April 5, Versus Virus an online-hackathon took place to address challenges imposed on Switzerland and its inhabitants by the ongoing crisis caused by Covid-19. Over the course of 48 hours, more than 4600 people contributed to solutions in 263 teams. Among the participants were also two members of DDIS, […]

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We are glad to announce that our colleague Suzanne Tolmeijer got a paper accepted at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction 2020. This year, the conference will take place in Cambridge, UK from 23 to 26 March. The paper, titled ‘Taxonomy of Trust-Relevant Failures and Mitigation Strategies‘, will be presented there. It is the […]

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A few weeks ago, the 18th International Semantic Web Conference took place in Auckland, New Zealand. A delegation of DDIS visited the conference and made some valuable contributions to the conference. A little overview of our work: On Saturday the 26th of October, Prof. Abraham Bernstein and Dr. Daniele Dell’Aglio ran a tutorial on Blockchain […]

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We are happy to announce that our colleague Marc Novel has successfully defended his thesis ‘Contextualized Search for Nearness’. We congratulate him on his success and wish him a great start at his new job at Systemorph as a business & data analyst!

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During the beginning of this summer, our colleague and friend Daniel Spicar has successfully defended his thesis titled ‘Efficient Spectral Link Prediction on Graphs‘. He will continue his career at Swiss IT company ELCA, we wish him all the best! His talent for asking the right questions and bringing the right cookies will be thoroughly […]

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We congratulate one of our guest PhD students Martin Sterchi and his coauthors on their recent publication in PLOS ONE. The publication is part of an interdisciplinary project called PIG DATA, which focuses on health analytics for Swiss pig farming. PIG DATA is funded by National Research Programme (NRP75) on Big Data. Title: The pig transport network in Switzerland: Structure, patterns, […]

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Coming May, another DDIS paper will be presented at the Web Conference 2019 in San Fransisco. The paper, titled ‘Iteratively Learning Embeddings and Rules for Knowledge Graph Reasoning’, is a collaboration between – among others – DDIS’s own Bibek Paudel and former visiting PhD Student Wen Zhang.

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Research 2018 has been a turbulent and exciting year, and has provided many opportunities to do exciting research. More and more data is being produced, which calls for data mining & machine learning to make sense of this data. Technology is becoming more ubiquitous, and research on human computer interaction & computer supported cooperative work […]

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On Tuesday the 11th of December 2018, Bibek Paudel successfully defended his thesis ‘Improving recommendation diversity and identifying cultural biases for personalized ranking in large networks‘. As is customary, the team created a graduation hat symbolizing his time at DDIS. We wish him good luck and good research at his next position as postdoctoral researcher […]

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