The organising team

Prof. Denis Lalanne

Denis Lalanne Denis Lalanne is full professor in the Department of Informatics of the University of Fribourg and director of the Human-IST institute. He is heading the "human-building interaction" group in the smart living lab and Swiss representative at the IFIP TC13. After completing a PhD at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) on computer supported creativity, a postDoc in the USER group in IBM Almaden research center, one year of teaching and research in the University of Avignon, and an experience as usability engineer in a swiss start-up, he joined the University of Fribourg in 2002 to work on the NCCR IM2 as a senior researcher first and became professor in 2015 on the topic of Human-Machine Interaction. He is broadly interested by different aspects of the domain of Human-Computer Interaction, with a focus on multimodal interaction and visual analytics. More recently his research are centered around the topic of Human-Building Interaction to understand and improve the comfort of buildings' occupants and on the topic of Human-AI Interaction to improve/evaluate the teaming or to support accessibility/rehabilitation.

Dr. Simon Ruffieux

Simon Ruffieux Simon Ruffieux is Senior Researcher and Lecturer in the department of Informatics of the University of Fribourg. He is a member of the Human-IST Institute. He is currently leading the HIP Initiative (Human-IST x SwissPost Initiative), coordinating all academic projects in relation with Swiss Post. He holds a diploma of Doctor of Science in Informatics, a Diploma in Higher Education from the University of Fribourg and a Master in Computer Sciences with a specialization in Bio-computing from the Swiss Federal Institute Of Technology (EPFL). His research is focused in the area of machine learning, augmented intelligence, data science, human-computer interactions and augmented \& virtual reality. He is particularly interested in leveraging recent advances in technologies to empower individuals, with a specific focus on individuals with special needs.

Prof. Paolo Favaro

Paolo Favaro Paolo Favaro received the Laurea degree (B.Sc.+M.Sc.) from Università di Padova, Italy in 1999, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 2003 and 2004 respectively. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the computer science department of the University of California, Los Angeles and subsequently in Cambridge University, UK. Between 2004 and 2006 he worked in medical imaging at Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, USA. From 2006 to 2011 he was Lecturer and then Reader at Heriot-Watt University and Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK. In 2012 he became full professor at Universität Bern, Switzerland. His research interests are in computer vision, computational photography, machine learning, signal and image processing, estimation theory, inverse problems and variational techniques. He is also a member of the IEEE Society.

Prof. Valerio Schiavoni

Valerio Schiavoni Prof. Valerio Schiavoni completed his Master's and Doctorate in Computer Science at the University of Rome Tre (Italy) and the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), respectively. He coordinated the Competence Centre for Complex Systems and Big Data at UniNE and currently coordinates the CUSO (Conférence Universitaire Suisse Occidentale) for Computer Science programmes. Since 2018, he has been a Senior Lecturer (Maître-Assistant) in the Computer Science Department (IIUN) at UniNE. He co-founded SafeCloud Technologies Sarl, a Swiss start-up. He co-founded AHUG, a Swiss non-profit group for practitioners using ARM technology for high-performance computing. His interests span several areas, including system security, large-scale and distributed systems, deep learning and system support for effective data science.