USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

1 week ago

Towards improving chemical synthesis planning assistants 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...

📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Mikhail Andronov on "Towards improving chemical synthesis planning assistants"

📅 Tuesday 31 March at 15:30
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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11428

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

1 month ago

📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Malik Lechekhab on "Multilevel diffusion-based and spectral graph methods for clustering and anomaly detection"

📅 Friday 20 March at 13:30
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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11418

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

1 month ago

Solver-based Compilation for Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays and Scalable Logic Synthesis 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 invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Elia Cereda on "Learning on the Fly: From Domain Adaptation to On-device Learning on Autonomous Nano-UAVs"

📅 Tuesday 17 March at 14:00
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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11413

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

1 month ago

Approximation Algorithms for Survivable Network Design Problems 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 invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Cristian Tirelli on "Solver-based Compilation for Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays and Scalable Logic Synthesis"

📅 Monday 16 March at 16:00
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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11412

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

2 months ago

Stochastic Additively Preconditioned Trust-Region Strategies for Distributed Neural Network Training 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 invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Miguel Bosch Calvo on "Approximation Algorithms for Survivable Network Design Problems"

📅 Tuesday 20 January at 10:00
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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11367

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

3 months ago

A Neuro-Symbolic Oracle Generator 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...

📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Samuel Adolfo Cruz Alegria on "Stochastic Additively Preconditioned Trust-Region Strategies for Distributed Neural Network Training"

📅 Tuesday 16 December at 16:00
#USILife #PhDLife #USItalent🎓

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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11359

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

4 months ago

Simulation-Based Testing and Runtime Monitoring for Autonomous Robotic Systems 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 invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Davide Molinelli on "A Neuro-Symbolic Oracle Generator"

📅 Thursday 4 December at 09:30
#USILife #PhDLife #USItalent🎓

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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11343

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

4 months ago

Decoding Perceptual Realism for Real-Time Virtual and Augmented Realities 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...

📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Sajad MazraehKhatiri on "Simulation-Based Testing and Runtime Monitoring for Autonomous Robotic Systems"

📅 Wednesday 10 December at 15:30
#USILife #PhDLife #USItalent🎓

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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11339

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

5 months ago

Approximating Packing Problems 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 invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Taimoor Tariq on "Decoding Perceptual Realism for Real-Time Virtual and Augmented Realities"

📅 Tuesday 28.10 at 15:00
#USILife #PhDLife #USItalent🎓

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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11316

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

5 months ago

Approximating Packing Problems 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 invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Antoine Tinguely on "Approximating Packing Problems"

📅 Wednesday 22.10 at 10:00
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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11317

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

6 months ago

Generalized Barycentric Interpolation for Arbitrary Domains You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Qingjun Chang on Thursday 25 September 2025 at 14:00 in room D1.13. Abstract: Generalized barycentric coordinates are widely used in...

📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Qingjun Chang on "Generalized Barycentric Interpolation for Arbitrary Domains"

📅 Thursday 25.09 at 14:00
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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11290

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

7 months ago

Towards Human-like Perception with Connectionist Models You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Anand Gopalakrishnan on Monday 22 September 2025 at 17:30 in room D0.02. Abstract: The last decade has seen rapid progress in Artifi...

📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Anand Gopalakrishnan on "Towards Human-like Perception with Connectionist Models"

📅 Monday 22.09.25 - 17:30
#USILife #PhDLife #USItalent🎓

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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11281

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

7 months ago

Shape control tools for curve and surface design You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Andriamahenina Ramanantoanina on Wednesday 10 September 2025 at 14:30 in room D0.03. Abstract: Bézier curves are widely used in geom...

📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Andriamahenina Ramanantoanina on "Shape control tools for curve and surface design"

📅 Wednesday 10.09.25 - 14:30
#USILife #PhDLife #USItalent🎓

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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11278

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

8 months ago

Compiler-Intermediate-Representation-Level Pro?ling to Analyze and Perform Compiler Optimizations You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Matteo Basso on Wednesday 23 July 2025 at 15:30 in room D0.02. Abstract: Managed language runtime systems often improve runtime perf...

📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Matteo Basso on "Compiler-Intermediate-Representation-Level Pro?ling to Analyze and Perform Compiler Optimizations"

📅 Wednesday 23.07 - 15:30
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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11252

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

8 months ago

Practical Dynamic Program Analysis for Node.js - The NodeProf Framework and its Applications You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Haiyang Sun on Tuesday 22 July 2025 at 15:30 in room D0.02. Abstract: Node.js is an asynchronous, event-driven JavaScript runtime th...

📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Haiyang Sun on "Practical Dynamic Program Analysis for Node.js - The NodeProf Framework and its Applications"

📅 Tuesday 22.07 - 15:30
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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11251

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

9 months ago

Towards physiologically-driven human memory augmentation You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Matías Laporte on Friday 4 July 2025 at 13:00 in room D0.02. Abstract: Despite technological advances in lifelogging devices—capturi...

📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Matías Laporte on "Towards physiologically-driven human memory augmentation"

📅 Friday 13:00
#SYS #USILife #PhDLife #USItalent🎓

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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11242

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

10 months ago

Automating AI Research You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Louis Michel Kirsch on Tuesday 3 June 2025 at 18:00 in room D1.14. Abstract: A core element of artificial general intelligence (AGI)...

📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Louis Michel Kirsch on "Automating AI Research"

📅 Tuesday 03.06.2025 h18:00
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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11220

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

10 months ago

Approximate Computing via Effective SMT-Based Logic Synthesis You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Morteza Rezaalipour on Friday 6 June 2025 at 12:45 in room D1.15 Abstract: The relentless progress of semiconductor technology, hist...

📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Morteza Rezaalipour on "Approximate Computing via Effective SMT-Based Logic Synthesis"

📅 Friday 06.06.25 h12:45
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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11221

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

10 months ago

Lattice Boltzmann Methods for Hydraulic Turbomachines You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of David Roos Launchbury on Monday 19 May 2025 at 13:00 in room D1.14. Abstract: In the field of energy production, hydraulic turbomach...

📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of David Roos Launchbury on "Lattice Boltzmann Methods for Hydraulic Turbomachines"

📅 Monday 13:00
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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11200

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

10 months ago

Optimizing Visual Quality and Efficiency for Immersive Graphics You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Luca Surace on Wednesday 21 May 2025 at 09:30 in room D1.13. Abstract: Advancements in graphics algorithms and display technologies ...

📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Luca Surace on "Optimizing Visual Quality and Efficiency for Immersive Graphics"

📅 Wednesday 21 May - 09:00
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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11187

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

11 months ago

📣 Join us on May 8 for a talk by Edoardo Riggio on 'The SUNBURST Wake-Up Call: Why CI/CD Security Matters Now More Than Ever'.

📅 16.30 - 17.30

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@si.usi.ch #SI #USI #USILife

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

11 months ago

Estimating food security using Bayesian methods on auxiliary data sources Speaker:  Dr. Francesca Panero, Sapienza University, Italy  Abstract:  Food security is commonly monitored through household surveys, which are costly and vary in temporal frequency and spatial resolu...

📣 Join us on May 8 for a talk by Dr. Francesca Panero on 'Estimating food security using Bayesian methods on auxiliary data sources'.

📅 12.15 - 13.30

Details ⬇️
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#USI #USILife

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

11 months ago

Forward and inverse shape uncertainty quantification in time-harmonic scattering Speaker: Laura Scarabosio, Radboud University, The Netherlands Abstract: We study wave scattering from an object with uncertain shape, illuminated by a time-harmonic wave - such as sound or light - fr...

📣 Join us on April 29 for a talk by Laura Scarabosio on 'Forward and inverse shape uncertainty quantification in time-harmonic scattering'.

📅 15.30 - 16.30

Details ⬇️
www.inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11176

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USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

11 months ago

Recent Advances in Statistical Models for Rankings You can join online by clicking here. Speaker: Luiza Piancastelli, University College Dublin Abstract: This talk introduces distance-based probabilistic models for rankings and goes over two recent ad...

📣 Join us on April 15 for a talk by Luiza Piancastelli on 'Recent Advances in Statistical Models for Rankings'.

📅 12.30 - 13.30

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USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

11 months ago

Real Faults in Deep Learning Fault Benchmarks: How Real Are They? Speaker: Nargiz Humbatova, Università della Svizzera italiana Abstract: As the adoption of Deep Learning (DL) systems continues to rise, an increasing number of approaches are being proposed to test t...

📣 Join us on April 17 for a talk by Nargiz Humbatova on 'Real Faults in Deep Learning Fault Benchmarks: How Real Are They?'.

📅 16.30 - 17.30

Details ⬇️
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USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

11 months ago

Cost-Efficient Software Automation with Cooperative Small Language Models Speaker: Giuseppe Crupi, Università della Svizzera italiana Abstract: The increasing reliance on large commercial language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot for software engineering tas...

📣 Join us on April 10 for a talk by Giuseppe Crupi on 'Cost-Efficient Software Automation with Cooperative Small Language Model'.

📅 16.30 - 17.30

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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11158

#SInstitute #USI #USILife

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

1 year ago

Double Talk: Esterel in Racket / Teaching JITs/incremental compilers Speakers: Robby Findler, Northwestern University and Joe Gibbs Politz, UC San Diego Abstracts: Talk 1: Concurrency and thread preemption are tools that can make programs more modular. Unfortunately, i...

📣 Join us on April 4 for a double talk by Robby Findler and Joe Gibbs Politz

📅 16.00 - 17.30

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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11144

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@si.usi.ch

USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

1 year ago

Reasoning about Substitutability at the Level of JVM Bytecode Speaker: Marco Paganoni, Università della Svizzera italiana Abstract: While Java’s subtyping requires subclasses to implement superclass methods, this only provides limited compliance with Liskov’s Su...

📣 Join us on April 3 for a #seminar by Marco Paganoni on "Reasoning about Substitutability at the Level of JVM Bytecode"

📅 16.30 - 17.30

Details ⬇️
inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11141

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USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

1 year ago

Biases in Generative AI Speaker: Dr. Francesco Sovrano Abstract: This presentation examines the promises and pitfalls of using generative AI in different settings. The talk highlights significant challenges: inherent biases ...

Join us on March 26 for a #seminar by Dr. Francesco Sovrano on "Biases in Generative AI"

📅 13.30 - 14.30

Details ⬇️
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USI Faculty of Informatics

@inf.usi.ch

1 year ago

LiquidAI: Orchestrating Cloud-Edge Continuum with Isomorphic Software Speaker: Tommi Mikkonen, Kari Systä Abstract: The cloud-edge continuum has become an emergent environment for various applications, hosting complex computations with ML/AI. However, the fashion we bui...

Join us on March 20 for a #seminar by Tommi Mikkonen, Kari Systä on "LiquidAI: Orchestrating Cloud-Edge Continuum with Isomorphic Software"

📅 16.30 - 17.30

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