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News list
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PhD defense of Azza Bouleimen
Congratulations to Azza Bouleimen for defending her PhD thesis “Towards Intervention Policies on Social Media for a Better Society: Understanding User’s Behavior and Validating Generative Simulations” 🎉
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PhD defense of Ibrahim Al Hazwani
Congratulations to Ibrahim Al Hazwani for defending his PhD Thesis “Humanizing Recommender System – Interactive and Explanatory Recommendation through Data Humanism” 🎉
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Was macht KI mit Demokratie und Gesellschaft?
Im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts RAISD (Researching AI, Society & Democracy in Switzerland) untersuchten AlgorithmWatch CH und das Institut für Informatik, wie die KI-generierten Antworten von Google und Bing die Debatte um die «10-Millionen-Initiative» wiedergeben und welche Quellen sie nutzen.
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PhD defense of Nicole Bellert
Congratulations to Nicole Bellert for defending her PhD Thesis “On Dark Figures – Estimating and Simulating Hidden Population Sizes of Illegal Activity” 🎉
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Honorable Mention Award at Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2026
Clara-Maria Barth, Anton Fedosov, Chat Wacharamanotham, Jürgen Bernard, and Elaine M. Huang received the Honorable Mention Award at the Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2026 for their paper “How Do I Want to Live with Type 1 Diabetes? Understanding Self-Management Styles to Inform the Design of T1D Technologies” – Congratulations 🎉
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Engagement Award for Nimra Ahmed
Congratulations! By public vote, Nimra Ahmed won this year’s Engagement Award at the 2026 Graduation Ceremony of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics.
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MindfulPacer: Living with Long Covid
The current Oec. Magazin features an article about MindfulPacer, the app developed by Dr. André Meyer and his team and 👉 announced in March.
MindfulPacer helps people with energy-limiting conditions (such as Long Covid) better understand and manage their energy using smartwatch data and personalized reminders.
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Societal Digitalization: News Insights from a Five-Year Research Project
The National Research Program “Digital Transformation“ (NRP 77), led by Abraham Bernstein, has successfully concluded. Highlighting the social impact of the project, Abraham Bernstein emphasizes a key takeaway: “Digitalization is a societal transformation in which everyone should play a part.“
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Wiley High-Impact Recognition
Congratulations! The paper “PPSurf: Combining Patches and Point Convolutions for Detailed Surface Reconstruction” has been recognized by Wiley Online Library as one of the top 10% most-viewed papers in Computer Graphics Forum (2024). This was a joint work with the TU Vienna, led by the primary authors Philipp Erler (TU Vienna) and Lizeth Fuentes Perez (UZH).
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ACM SIGMOD 2026 Service Awards for IfI Researchers
ACM SIGMOD is the flagship ACM conference on data management and a leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences.
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Promotion of Alberto Bacchelli
As of 1 April 2026, the Board of the University of Zurich has appointed Alberto Bacchelli as Full Professor ad personam of Empirical Software Engineering. Congratulations!
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Double Honors for Sustainable HCI: CaseCompass wins Inspirational Research Award at ACM CHI 2026
Congratulations to the authors of “CaseCompass: Designing Sustainable, Community-Led Socio-Technical Systems for Gender-Based Violence Support Work”, whose work was recognized in Barcelona both for their outstanding research and their commitment to sustainable, practical outcomes.
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Best Paper Honorable Mention Award for Nimra Ahmed, Angelika Strohmayer, and Elaine Huang
For their paper “Scattered Searches, Broken Apps, Quiet Repairs: A Feminist Autoethnographic Critique of Technology and Research on Gender-Based Violence” Nimra Ahmed, Angelika Strohmayer, and Elaine Huang received a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at the CHI 2026 conference – congratulations!
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In the media: The Impact of Prediction Markets on Democratic Processes
Burkhard Stiller, Professor of Communication Systems at the Department of Informatics, explores what happens when complex political decision-making processes are reduced to game-theoretic frameworks.
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MindfulPacer: Smartwatch-based activity pacing support
MindfulPacer is a new smartwatch and smartphone app that helps people with Long COVID and ME/CFS pace their daily activities using personalized biometric limits, real-time notifications, and a reflection journal.
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Celebrating Our Newest Doctoral Graduates
The Department of Informatics warmly congratulates nine PhD students who have successfully defended their dissertations.
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Claudio Tessone: Indo-Swiss Blockchain Forum 2026
In collaboration with the University of Zurich (UZH), the Rashtriya Raksha University hosted an international conference bridging decentralized technology and national security. Claudio Tessone joined the opening panel and later delivered the opening lecture.
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UZH-Kyoto University Symposium 2026
In early February, researchers from the University of Zurich (UZH) and Kyoto University met in Zurich. In their fourth joint symposium, they shared ideas from different fields. Abraham Bernstein and Claudio Tessone, both professors in the Department of Informatics (IfI), joined the workshops with postdoctoral researcher Patricia Kahr.
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Rico Sennrich takes over dual Professorship
Rico Sennrich, Head of Text Technology at the Institute for Computational Linguistics (CL), will be offering his lectures in both the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics from the spring semester of 2026. Warmly welcome, Rico!
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Eva Bittner becomes Full Professor of Information Systems
As of 1 February 2026, Eva Bittner joins the Department of Informatics as Full Professor of Information Systems. Warmly welcome, Eva!
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Semester Award for Natasha Obukhova
Congratulations! Natasha Obukhova has been awarded a Semester Award for her outstanding Master’s thesis, entitled “Because I can promise you: if you’re studying people with lived experience of trauma, secondary trauma will happen”.