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Congratulations to Dr. Skanda Muralidhar for defending his thesis

On April 4th 2019, Skanda Muralidhar obtained the PhD degree at EPFL after successfully defending his thesis, advised by Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez at Idiap’s ...

Daniel Gatica-Perez among 2018th most influential scholars by AMiner

Recognized for his outstanding contributions to the field of Web and Knowledge Engineering, Multimedia, the head of Idiap’s Social Computing group is among the ...

Building a more inclusive Web supported by AI

How to empower communication among people through technology that is aware of diversity? To achieve this goal, the WeNet European project will develop a ...

Using mobile data to model the drinking habits of Swiss youth

Researchers from Idiap Research Institute have carried out a study using smartphone data from young Swiss people to better understand the circumstances in ...

Collaboration with Mexico at First National Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation

The Urbis project, which is a collaboration on citizen participation and mobile crowdsourcing between IPICYT Mexico and Idiap, was presented at the First ...

AI and diversity: the whole world is not yet represented

Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez (Social Computing Group) talks about social media, machine learning, and diversity with Amenaza Roboto, the new platform for science ...

Children education project supported by SenseCityVity at the World Water Forum 2018

Supported by the SenseCityVity research team in Mexico and Switzerland in 2017, the project "Education for Water Protection in Colombia" will participate at ...

Modeling human behavior with Airbnb

Researchers at Idiap and EPFL have been working with psychologists to understand how people form first impressions from photos. They focused on how people ...

What does Instagram reveal about food consumption in Switzerland?

The work by Trung Phan and Daniel Gatica-Perez (Social Computing Group) on analysis of Instagram patterns of food consumption in Switzerland was covered in ...

2017 Idiap Awards for James Newling and Gulcan Can

Idiap is proud to award James Newling and Gulcan Can for their outstanding work.