At UNIL, the richness of artificial intelligence lies in the diversity of our experts, whose internationally recognized research spans advanced algorithms as well as social, legal, and cultural issues. More than 250 researchers contribute to this momentum, and the UNIL community has produced over 3200 publications related to AI.
The panel of experts below reflects this diversity of perspectives on artificial intelligence.
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Marc Atallah
Senior lecturer
Faculty of arts
Littérature, Science-fiction, Représentations des technologies, Métaphore
Meritxell Bach Cuadra
Senior lecturer
Faculty of biology and medicine
Computational imaging, Medical image analysis, Radiology
Boris Beaude
Associate professor
Faculty of social and political sciences
NLP, Embedding, Deep learning, Politique
Sven Bergmann
Associate professor
Faculty of biology and medicine
GWAS, Retina, Deep learning, Foundation model, RETFound, Vasculature, CVD
Romain Bionda
Lecturer
Faculty of arts
Écritures contemporaines, Imaginaires
Noémie Boillat Blanco
Senior lecturer and clinician
Faculty of biology and medicine
Multimodal clinical decision algorithms, AI-guided lung ultrasound, Large language models for clinical decision making
Oliver Yibing Chén
Tenure-track assistant professor
Faculty of biology and medicine
Statistics, Machine learning, Neuroscience, Digital health
Adrien Depeursinge
Collaborateur scientifique
Faculty of biology and medicine
Medical image analysis, Radiomics, Geometric deep learning, Personalizes medicine
Marie-Anne Durand
Full professor
Faculty of biology and medicine
Chatbot, Outils d’aide à la décision, Inégalités sociales de santé, Prévention des cancers, Endométriose
Luise Eisfeld
Tenure-track assistant professor
Faculty of business and economics
Competition, Big Tech, Market Dynamics, Entrepreneurship, Startups, Venture Capital, M&As, Regulation
Isabelle Engeler
Full professor
Faculty of business and economics
Synthetic data, Market insights, Productivity, Wellbeing
Frédéric Erard
Associate professor
Faculty of biology and medicine
Faculty of law, criminal justice and public administration
Santé, Données de santé, Responsabilité médicale, Nouvelles technologies médicales
Guillaume Fahrni
Senior registrar
Faculty of biology and medicine
Radiology, Clinical, LLM
Eric Giannoni
Associate professor
Faculty of biology and medicine
Sepsis, Infection, Nouveau-né, Détection précoce, Signes vitaux
Olivier Glassey
Senior lecturer
Faculty of social and political sciences
Usages ordinaires, appropriation, régime épistémique, anthropomorphisation
Alexandre Gouveia
Head physician
Faculty of biology and medicine
Incertitude, Médecine générale, Raisonnement clinique, Formation
Antoine Guisan
Full professor
Faculty of biology and medicine
Faculty of geosciences and environment
Modèles de distribution d’espèces, Prédictions spatiales, Scénarios
Patrick Haack
Full professor
Faculty of business and economics
Learning, Education, Skills, Fake news, Disinformation
David Hamidovic
Full professor
Faculty of theology and religious studies
Deep Learning, Deep SVDD, Machine Learning, Scribe
Guillaume Jouvet
Replacement professor
Faculty of geosciences and environment
Glaciology, Physics-Informed neural network, Numerical modelling
Ralf Jürgen Jox
Full professor
Faculty of biology and medicine
Ethics of AI, Medical ethics, Bioethics
Mario Jreige
Senior lecturer and clinician
Faculty of biology and medicine
Médecine nucléaire, Imagerie moléculaire, Radiologie
Zoltan Kutalik
Associate professor
Faculty of biology and medicine
Statistical human genetics, Personalised medicine, Large-scale population biobanks, Causal inference
Philippe Jacquet
Data scientist
Central IT Services DCSR
Scientific consulting, Machine learning, Projects
Rafael Lalive
Full professor
Faculty of business and economics
Faculty of social and political sciences
IA et créativité, IA et emploi, IA et compétences
Audrey Lebret
Full professor
Faculty of law, criminal justice and public administration
Faculty of biology and medicine
Acceptabilité, Droits humains, Santé numérique, Gouvernance
Thé Van Luong
Head of AI and information systems for research
Research service
Optimization algorithms, Industrial problem solving, GPU computing
Martino Maggetti
Full professor
Faculty of social and political sciences
Gouvernance, Politiques publiques, Régulation, Science politique
Sébastien Marcel
Adjunct professor
Faculty of law, criminal justice and public administration
Deep learning, Security, Privacy
Sylvain Métille
Associate professor
Faculty of law, criminal justice and public administration
Protection des données, Décision individuelle automatisée, Sphère privée, Secret de fonction, Secret professionnel
Tobias Mettler
Full professor
Faculty of law, criminal justice and public administration
Algorithmic control, AI governance, Public sector, Digital transformation, Surveillance
Sylvain Meylan
Senior lecturer and clinician
Faculty of biology and medicine
Sepsis, Clinical decision support, Pathophysiology, Genomics
Roxana Mihet
Tenure-track assistant professor
Faculty of business and economics
Financial Economics, Macroeconomics, Technology, Economic Growth, FinTech
Ariane Morin
Full professor
Faculty of law, criminal justice and public administration
IA et responsabilité civile
Sascha Nick
Part-time lecturer
Faculty of geosciences and environment
AI impact on society, Policy, Resource use, AI sustainability
Isaac Pante
Senior lecturer
Faculty of arts
Fiction interactive, Enseignement, Humanités numériques, Littérature, Jeu vidéo, Jeu
Christian Peukert
Associate professor
Faculty of business and economics
Digital Market Regulation, Economics of Data and AI, Copyright
Davide Picca
Senior lecturer
Faculty of arts
LLM, NLP, Digital Humanities
Michael Piotrowski
Associate professor
Faculty of arts
Humanités numériques, Humanités computationnelles, Épistémologie, Histoire de l’informatique
John Prior
Full professor
Faculty of biology and medicine
Radiomics, Machine learning, PET/CT, SPECT/CT, Medical imaging
Christophe Randin
Associate professor ad personam appointment
Faculty of geosciences and environment
Modèles prédictifs de distribution de la végétation, Monitoring adaptatif en régions de montagne
Marianna Rapsomaniki
Tenure-track assistant professor
Faculty of biology and medicine
Machine learning, Biomedicine
Caroline Roberts
Senior lecturer
Faculty of social and political sciences
Méthodologie d’enquête par sondage, Conception et évaluation de questionnaires
Céline Rozenblat
Full professor
Faculty of geosciences and environment
Geo-AI, Information management, Urban Digital Twins, Modelling
Philippe Ryvlin
Full professor
Faculty of biology and medicine
Epilepsie, Détection de crise, Prévention des mort subites inattendues, Wearable
Nicolas Salamin
Full professor
Faculty of biology and medicine
Modeling, Deep learning, Evolutionary genomics
Simon Scheidegger
Associate professor
Faculty of business and economics
Deep learning for solving and estimating dynamic stochastic models, Computational economics, Climate change economics
Marianne Schmid Mast
Full professor
Faculty of business and economics
Compétences interpersonnelles, Communication, Leadership, Deepfake
Yash Raj Shrestha
Tenure-track assistant professor
Faculty of business and economics
Machine learning, Organization design, Human AI collaboration
Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux
Full professor
Faculty of law, criminal justice and public administration
Legal AI and legal automation, Trustworthy AI and regulation, Transparency of automated decision-making and AI
Franco Taroni
Full professor
Faculty of law, criminal justice and public administration
Probabilistic assessment of scientific evidence, Discrimination between populations, Bayesian probabilistic models
Josef Philipp Trein
Tenure-track assistant professor
Faculty of social and political sciences
Administration publique, Politiques publiques, Gouvernance
Jeff Van de Poël
Digital learning deputy
Centre for Teaching and Learning
Instructional design, Digital learning, MOOC, Higher ed strategy
Alessandro Villa
Full professor
Faculty of business and economics
Machine learning, Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence, Brain Theories
Olivier Voirol
Senior lecturer
Faculty of social and political sciences
IA et espace public, Enquêter et calculer, Numérisation et capitalisation, Durabilité et écologie
Sophie Weerts
Full professor
Faculty of law, criminal justice and public administration
Law and regulation studies, Public administration, Human rights and democracy
Andreas Ziegler
Full professor
Faculty of law, criminal justice and public administration
Droit international, Économie internationale, Droit international humanitaire, Droits humains
PhD students and postdoctoral researchers
Maria Elena Castiello
Senior lecturer
Faculty of arts
Archaeology, Machine and deep Learning, Site Detection, Image processing
Fernanda Conforto de Oliveira
Postdoc
Faculty of social and political sciences
Sentiment analysis, Latin America, Global economic, Governance, Policymaking
Ebi Antony George
Postdoc
Faculty of biology and medicine
Animal behaviour, Collective, Behaviour, Social insects
Isis Giraldo
Postdoc
Faculty of arts
Critical cultural studies, Théories féministes, Pédagogie critique, Études décoloniales
Manuela Paolini E Silva
PhD student
Faculty of law, criminal justice and public administration
AI governance, AI literacy, AI act, Digital law
Laura Vowels
Postdoc
Faculty of social and political sciences
Chatbot, Digital health interventions, Relationship interventions