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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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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A paper based on controllable models for simplifying medical text, co-authored by our colleague Rosni Kottekulam Vasu and external collaborators, was accepted at the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence! The paper is titled “Med-EASi: Finely Annotated Dataset and Models for Controllable Simplification of Medical Texts” and was jointly conducted with Chandrayee Basu, Michihiro Yasunaga […]

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In his Bachelor Thesis, Viktor Lakic investigated the decay happening in datasets when the resources that Web-URLs point to become unavailable. This Link-Rot can cause problems for reproducibility, as datasets can shrink over time, potentially changing the outcome of experiments which use them. A paper based on the data that Viktor collected in his thesis, […]

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2021 was a year of resilience: we continued to live through the pandemic, but we were able to be very successful, despite all the challenges posed by long-lasting remote/hybrid work. We published our research in several top conferences and journals, we acquired new research funding, we attended online scientific events, one of our colleagues obtained […]

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