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Institute for Data Science

Institute for Data Science

AI-based methods for the benefit of society and the economy

Our mission is to develop computational methods and technologies to address real-world societal challenges. As an interdisciplinary computer science institute, we focus on artificial intelligence, data science and high-performance computing, and apply these fields to business, health, the environment and space science. We work closely with external partners to ensure that our methods and solutions have a tangible impact. Our goal is to develop and apply computational approaches that drive meaningful progress across disciplines.

Our researchers teach in the Data Science and Computer Science programs. This provides students with the opportunity to participate in top-tier, international research projects.

New:

AI&HPC:
The new study track for the next generation of Deep Learning and Foundation Models. Design and scale AI applications on modern HPC systems using GPUs, TPUs, and the newest state of the art accelerator architectures.

Competencies

Machine Learning

Classification and regression models, predictive modeling, time series analysis, recommendation systems, deep learning

Natural Language Processing

Topic modelling, sentiment analysis, text analysis and generation, speech recognition

Exploratory Data Science

Explorative data analysis, descriptive statistics, data visualization, analysis of (social) networks

High Performance Computing

Parallelisation on distributed systems, performance optimisation in the use of GPUs, hybrid computing, design and construction of infrastructures for data management and processing

Image Analysis and Image Processing

Image reconstruction, image segmentation, object recognition, data compression and dimension reduction

Fields of competence

  • Cooperation with business and industry

  • Astroinformatics and Space Sciences

  • Digital society

Projects from the field of cooperation with business and industry

  • Pioneering Swiss Building Renovation with Computer Vision and Digital Twins

    Buildings in Switzerland use about 40% of the country's energy. We are developing a system to create digital models of physical buildings to make the reno...

  • Marvel: Real-time pollen information

    Together with our project partners, we develop zero-shot learning and other machine learning tools for recognising pollen particles anywhere in the world....

  • Enhancing Third Party Patent Monitoring with Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing

    Application of state-of-the-art NLP models increases efficiency of third party patent monitoring in the nutrition and bioscience industry.

Projects from the fields of astroinformatics and space sciences

  • Euclid Space Telescope – dark energy and dark matter

    A software infrastructure that enables efficient and robust pipeline processing of the vast amount of data in distributed processing sites.

  • STIX for Solar Orbiter

    The Spectrometer / Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) is an X-ray telescope that makes images and spectra of solar explosions called flares. It is one of...

  • SKACH - The SKA Switzerland Consortium

    When you build the world’s largest telescope, you end up collecting an astronomical amount of data. We help the international mega-science project SKAO ma...

Projects from the field of digital society

  • FHNW Myosotis Garden

    Playing games with elderly people can be fun. It can facilitate communication between people from different generations.

  • SySTEM2020: Connecting Science Learning Outside The Classroom

    Research participant recruitment, data collection and mapping STEAM initiatives in Switzerland.

  • Speech Recognition for Swiss German

    The FHNW Institute for Data Science is working on speech recognition technology to transform speech in various Swiss dialects to Standard German text.

Our lab infrastructure

Our lab infrastructure

The Institute for Data Science has state-of-the-art laboratory and simulation infrastructure.
Discover our labs!

About FHNW

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André Csillaghy

Prof. Dr. André Csillaghy

Head of FHNW Institute for Data Science

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+41 56 202 76 85 (undefined)

E-mail

andre.csillaghy@fhnw.ch

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FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland School of Computer Science Bahnhofstrasse 6 CH-5210 Windisch

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