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The Swiss AI Center for SMEs and the HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland are pleased to announce the AI Days 2026, taking place from 23 to 25 March 2026 in Martigny and Fribourg. This event, now in its fourth edition, brings together researchers, companies, and institutions to explore concrete and useful […]

Asyril has kicked off a new collaboration with HEIA-FR institutes iCoSys and SeSi — co-supervised by researcher Wolf Beat (machine-learning) and Associate Professor (UAS) Jean-Luc Robyr (mechanical engineering), with scientific collaborators Vincent Magnin (ML, with Wolf Beat) and Sivanesan Nirosh (mechanical, with Jean-Luc Robyr) — to make its Asyfill hopper system smarter. The project, called FiLeML, is […]

Fribourg, August 6, 2025 – As burglaries rise for the third year in a row in Switzerland, Fribourg-based Mitipi is reinforcing its anti-burglary device KEVIN with artificial intelligence. The presence-simulation system, already known for mimicking daily life with lights and sounds, will soon generate realistic conversations, adapt to users’ routines, and even reproduce their voices. […]

The MSE Summer School 2025 AI & Data Services ran 25–29 August 2025 at HES-SO Master in Lausanne, co-organised by the Swiss AI Center for SMEs and HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland in the context of the Master of Science in Engineering (MSE).29 MSE students from across Switzerland combined morning expert […]

We’re happy to share that two iCoSys papers were presented at CISBAT 2025 and accepted for publication in the CISBAT special issue of the Journal of Physics: Conference Series (IOP Publishing). Posters Diffusion models for conditioned district heating network time-series generationPresented: 3 September 2025, 15:30–16:00Authors: Frédéric Montet, Benjamin Pasquier, Michal Bryxí, Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, Jean Hennebert.Presented: […]

The Swiss AI Center for SMEs is organizing the MSE Summer School 2025: AI & Data Services, a one-week program running 25–29 August 2025 at HES-SO Master, Av. de Provence 6, Lausanne. The format combines morning expert talks and afternoon case-study sprints with industry partners. What to expect Audience & format: 29 students, working in small […]

We are proud to share that Spirecut, our partner for advancing AI‑powered image analysis tools for ultrasound‑guided surgery, has been named a finalist in the prestigious GenAI Zürich Awards. The event took place on April 1, 2025, at Technopark Zürich (spirecut.com). Showcasing SoNIT: A Joint Innovation At the awards finale, Spirecut presented the innosuisse funded SoNIT project—Sonography Nerve Instrument Tracking—which integrates real-time […]

Frédéric Montet and Benjamin Pasquier (iCoSys, HEIA-FR/HES-SO) presented new research at ITISE 2025 in Granada on how today’s “foundation models” stack up for time-series forecasting in real-world settings. The work was supported by a young researcher grant from HES-SO won by Prof. Beat Wolf. The study compares popular models from Amazon, Salesforce and Google with […]

We had the pleasure of participating in the HotCarbon’25 conference, held on July 10 and 11 at MIT in Cambridge — a flagship event dedicated to sustainable computing. On this occasion, three colleagues from iCosys — David Bekri, Loïc Guibert, and Sébastien Rumley — presented a paper entitled: “Carbon Topography Representation: Improving Impacts of Data […]

We had the pleasure of contributing to the July 11 edition of the newspaper La Gruyère.Jean Hennebert and Sébastien Rumley, share their perspective on AI tools such as ChatGPT, and the broader issues they raise: Cognitive delegation: AI responds quickly, often without sources or justification. There’s a risk of accepting these outputs as truths without […]