A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
The distinction between Finance and Sustainable Finance is what motivates Alexander Posth, Linus Grob and David Jaggi from the Institute of Wealth and Asset Management at the ZHAW School of Management and Law. The institute recently acquired a new supercomputer with which they can process huge volumes of alternative data and thereby detect companies engaged […]
Data Science is everywhere at the ZHAW. The ZHAW Datalab is a group of experts from all departments, solving practical problems with data. And the new Bachelor’s program “Data Science” at the ZHAW School of Engineering has started well in the last semester. But what does the career of a data scientist look like? Catherine […]
Corinna Hertweck arbeitet seit 2020 in einem Forschungsprojekt der ZHAW School of Engineering und ist Doktorandin an der Universität Zürich. In einem gemeinsamen Projekt mit der ZHAW, Universität Zürich und Universität St. Gallen beschäftigt sie sich mit der Schnittstelle von Technik und Gesellschaft. Anlässlich des Internationalen Frauentags 2022 spricht sie im Interview über Stereotypen, Gender […]
To create the political and economic framework conditions for Artificial Intelligence (AI), policymakers rely on advice from people in science and academia. Ricardo Chavarriaga, Head of CLAIRE Office Zurich and researcher at the ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI), is driving the responsible use of AI with the pan-European CLAIRE network. He explains what politicians […]
ZHAW-Student Ivo Elmer und sein Team haben mittels einer KI ausrechnen lassen, wie viel Pandemie-Schutzmaterial ein Krankenhaus benötigt. Dass die Software so treffgenau ist, hätten die vier jedoch nicht erwartet. Ivo Elmers Fazit ist klar. «Die Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) ist definitiv besser und schneller als der Mensch. Teilweise betrug die Abweichung gerade mal 0,01 Prozent», […]
Mathias Bonmarin is Head of the Sensors & Measurement Systems group at the ZHAW School of Engineering. In September 2019 he started his one-year DIZH Fellowship to study the impact of the digitalisation of dermatology on the society. Mathias, what do you want to study during the 12 months of your fellowship? The title of […]