USI Faculty of Informatics

PBT for Adversarial Reward Shaping - A Work in Progress 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...

📣 Join us on March 12 for a talk by Andréa Cristina de Souza Doreste on 'PBT for Adversarial Reward Shaping - A Work in Progress'.

📅 17:00 - 18:00
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📣 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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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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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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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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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
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Wigner and Gabor phase-space analysis of propagators for evolution equations 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...

📣 Join us on December 11 for a talk by Aitor Arrieta on 'Testing three generations of Cyber-Physical Systems'.

📅 10:30 - 11:30
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Low-Rank Parametrized Transformers and Saddle-to-Saddle Dynamics 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...

📣 Join us on December 16 for a talk by Prof. Elena Cordero on 'Wigner and Gabor phase-space analysis of propagators for evolution equations'.

📅 10:00 - 11:00
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inf.usi.ch/en/node/11351

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
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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
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Low-Rank Parametrized Transformers and Saddle-to-Saddle Dynamics 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...

📣 Join us on November 14 for a talk by Dr. Katerina Papagiannouli on 'Low-Rank Parametrized Transformers and Saddle-to-Saddle Dynamics'.

📅 12:30 - 13:30

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Low-Rank Parametrized Transformers and Saddle-to-Saddle Dynamics 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...

📣 Join us on November 13 for a talk by Helena A. Haxvig, on 'Reprogramming Bias: Exploring Gender Representation and Inclusive Design Through AI-Generated Synthetic Personas'.

📅 14:30 - 15:30

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On the theory of spline interpolation of values and derivatives 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...

📣 Join us on November 6 for a talk by Dr. Paul Rognon-Vael on 'Improving variable selection properties with transfer learning and data integration'.

📅 12:15 – 14:45

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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
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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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An exemplary work of #technology in the service of #dignity and #inclusion.

Focusing on the #redesign & #evaluation of the ACCESS+ app – a tool designed to improve the museum experience for people with intellectual #disabilities - his contribution is both academic & practical, advancing the field of human-computer interaction & promoting #equity in #access to #culture

Premio per contributi scientifici su tematiche di parità e diversità 2025 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...

🏆Congratulations to Andrea Esposito, joint winner of @usi.ch's 2025 Award for Scientific Contributions on Topics of #Equality & #Diversity for his Master's thesis "UI for cognitive accessibility: From redesign to evaluation"

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📣 We are #hiring a tenure-track Assistant #Professor in Theoretical Data Science and Machine Learning - find out more and #apply now!
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Scalable Bayesian Optimization via Online Gaussian Processes 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...

📣 Join us on October 3 for a talk by Marcel Neugebauer, on 'Scalable Bayesian Optimization via Online Gaussian Processes'.

📅 11:00 - 12:00

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Dataset Not Anonymized, Reject. A Personal Account of Ethics, Privacy, and Anonymization Issues in SE Research 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...

📣 Join us on September 25 for a talk by Marco Raglianti on 'Dataset Not Anonymized, Reject. A Personal Account of Ethics, Privacy, and Anonymization Issues in SE Research '.

📅 16:30 - 17:30

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📣 Join us on September 25 for a talk by Lucas Slot on 'The computational complexity of convex polynomial optimization '.

📅 15:30 - 16:30

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On the theory of spline interpolation of values and derivatives 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...

📣 Join us on September 26 for a talk by Michael Floater on 'On the theory of spline interpolation of values and derivatives'.

📅 15:30 - 16:30

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inf.usi.ch/en/node/11293

Beyond the Cloud: Decentralization with the Internet Computer Protocol Speaker: Yvonne-Anne Pignolet, Dr., director of research at Dfinity Abstract: The modern internet has become dependent on a handful of centralized cloud providers, creating challenges from platform ri...

📣 Join us on September 17 for a talk by Yvonne-Anne Pignolet on 'Beyond the Cloud: Decentralization with the Internet Computer Protocol'.

📅 14:00 - 15:00

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inf.usi.ch/en/node/11292

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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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
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Kinetic Methods for Consensus-Based Segmentation Speaker: Horacio Tettamanti, Department of Mathematics, University of Pavia, Italy Abstract: Image Segmentation is a fundamental task in the context of image processing and computer vision that consis...

📣 Join us on September 4 for a talk by Horacio Tettamanti on 'Kinetic Methods for Consensus-Based Segmentation'.

📅 15:30 - 16:30

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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
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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11278

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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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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