Speaker: Prof. Giulia Guidi, Cornell University Abstract: Biobank initiatives include half a million phased genomes, outpacing the tools available to analyze them. Conventional genotype formats treat ...

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wellein, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg  Abstract: Growing demands from simulation and AI/ML are pushing HPC energy consumption to critical levels. Power ...

Speaker: Dr. Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia Abstract: At the Human-AI Interaction group at the University of British Columbia, we investigate how to support Human-AI collaboration via...

Speaker: Michael Weiss, Carleton University Abstract: This talk explores how AI will transform the research process. It envisions AI not merely as a tool for specific tasks, but as a partner in knowle...

Speaker: Elizabeth Gassiat, University Paris- Saclay Abstract: Membership inference attacks (MIA) can reveal whether a particular data point was part of the training dataset, potentially exposing sens...

Speaker: Igor Steinmacher, Northern Arizona University, USA Abstract: Open source software underpins much of the world’s digital infrastructure, yet its sustainability remains fragile. Communities dep...

Speaker: Prof. Jorg Peters, University of Florida Abstract: Control nets of splines are embedded graphs whose node x y z values scale basis functions  and whose edges define adjacency and support of t...

You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Fatima Ezzeddine on Friday 5 June 2026 at 09:00 in room D0.02. Abstract: Machine learning (ML) models are increasingly adopted in do...

Speaker: Edoardo Riggio, USI Abstract: Software supply chain attacks have become a significant threat to modern software systems. By exploiting the complex and transitive nature of dependencies, malic...

Speaker: Kenneth Goodenough, University of Siegen Abstract:A natural question in entanglement theory is when a state ψ can be transformed into another state φ using local unitaries, measurements and c...

Speaker: Leonhard Held, University of Zürich Abstract: Reducing the number of experimental units is one of the three pillars of the 3R principles (Replace, Reduce, Refine) in animal research. At the s...

Speaker: Danny Z. Chen, University of Notre Dame Abstract: We present new deep learning (DL) approaches for medical image analysis tasks (sparse annotation, segmentation, classification, denoising, et...

Speaker: Xiaobo Sharon Hu, University of Notre Dame Abstract: Large-scale search plays a crucial role in a broad range of machine learning applications, where achieving fast and energy-efficient searc...

Speaker: James Zheng, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia; USI-INF Visiting Professor 2026 Abstract: Learning-enabled cyber-physical systems (CPS), such as autonomous driving and UAVs, are increas...

Speaker: Akshatha Shenoy, USI Abstract: In this talk, we will be exploring techniques for automatically checking concurrency properties in programs. Some of the current techniques (like Java Pathfinde...

Speaker: James Henderson, Idiap Research Institute Abstract: Characterising deep learning in terms of probabilistic inference gives us a theoretical framework for understanding the information content...

Speaker: Jinhan Kim, USI Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have become the default way we deploy LLMs over proprietary knowledge, yet the way we test them has not kept pace. Most ...

Speaker: Alessandra Palmigiano, School of Business and Economics of the VU Amsterdam Abstract: We discuss a formal framework for modelling how agents extract reliable information from stories and comm...

Speaker: Abbas K. Rizi (DSc), DTU Compute Abstract: The spread and control of infectious diseases depend not just on the biology of a pathogen but on the social fabric of its host population. How peop...

Speaker: Mattia Giannaccari, USI Abstract: Understanding object-oriented software systems requires developers to mentally reconstruct the roles and relationships of classes from scattered lines of cod...

Speaker: Valerie Burgener, USI Abstract: LLMs are rapidly evolving and handling more and more tasks. They introduce low friction to problem solving and reward with immediate output. This talk dives in...

You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Mikhail Andronov on Tuesday 31 March 2026 at 15:30 in room D2.19. Abstract: Efficient organic synthesis planning is one of the corne...

Speaker: Prof. Iro Armeni, Stanford University Abstract: This talk explores three distinct technical paradigms for generative vision models in 3D reconstruction and synthesis. First, we present a nove...

Speaker: Prof. Jelena Milosevic, FHNW Abstract: Large Language Models(LLMs) are increasingly embedded in critical systems, yet they introduce a growing set of security risks. This presentation highlig...

Uno studio coordinato tra l’ETH Zurich e l’Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) solleva interrogativi importanti sulla sicurezza dei password manager cloud più diffusi. Il lavoro, che sarà present...

On Friday, 13 March, the partner-only inauguration of Phänomena took place. At the official ceremony, moderated by Bettina Zbinden, the speakers were: Urs Müller, General Manager of Phänomena; Helen B...

Speaker: Andréa Cristina de Souza Doreste, USI Abstract: Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) are inherently safety-critical applications and must be thoroughly tested before deployment. One way to achiev...

You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Cristian Tirelli on Monday 16 March 2026 at 16:00 in room D0.03. Abstract: Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) are low-powe...

You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Miguel Bosch Calvo on Tuesday 20 January 2026 at 10:00 in room D0.02. Abstract: Connectivity is among the most extensively studied b...

You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Samuel Adolfo Cruz Alegria on Tuesday 16 December 2025 at 16:00 in room D1.13. Abstract: Training large-scale neural networks is com...

You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Davide Molinelli on Thursday 4 December 2025 at 09:30 in room D0.10. Abstract: Testing is essential to ensuring software quality, bu...

Speaker: Elena Cordero, Università degli Studi di Torino Abstract: In this talk, we develop a phase-space framework for studying linear PDE evolutions via their Wigner kernels and Gabor matrices. Focu...

Speaker: Dr. Katerina Papagiannouli Abstract: In this talk, we will characterise the gradient flow dynamics of an almost-linear low-rank parametrized transformer trained for regression in the limit of...

You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Sajad MazraehKhatiri on Wednesday 10 December 2025 at 15:30 in room D1.14. Abstract: The increasing deployment of autonomous robotic...

You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Taimoor Tariq on Tuesday 28 October 2025 at 15:00 in room D1.13. Abstract: Imagine a day when memories unfold before us in videos an...

Speaker: Dr. Katerina Papagiannouli Abstract: In this talk, we will characterise the gradient flow dynamics of an almost-linear low-rank parametrized transformer trained for regression in the limit of...

Speaker: Dr. Katerina Papagiannouli Abstract: In this talk, we will characterise the gradient flow dynamics of an almost-linear low-rank parametrized transformer trained for regression in the limit of...

Speaker: Michael Floater, University of Oslo Abstract: There is a remarkable and important result in univariate spline theory: spline interpolation over a sequence of points has a unique solution if a...

You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Antoine Tinguely on Wednesday 22 October 2025 at 10:00 in room D2.19. Abstract: Many optimization problems are NP-hard, meaning that...

You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Antoine Tinguely on Wednesday 22 October 2025 at 10:00 in room D2.19. Abstract: Many optimization problems are NP-hard, meaning that...

Il Premio per contributi scientifici su tematiche di parità e diversità 2025 dell’USI, del valore di 2'000 franchi ciascuno, è stato assegnato ex aequo ad Andrea Esposito e Daniela Baiardi per le risp...

Speaker: Marcel Neugebauer, University of Cologne Abstract: Bayesian optimization is a state-of-the-art method for optimizing black box functions. It typically assumes that the unknown function is a s...

Speaker: Marco Raglianti, Università della Svizzera italiana Abstract: Research in software engineering puts many ethical roadblocks (or at least checkpoints) on our path when it comes to performing e...