Joseph Ollier and Tobias Hösli had their joint research on agentic AI in insurance presented on the international stage this week, at the 30th APRIA Annual Conference in Beijing. The work, presented by University of St.Gallen collaborator Felix Feig, tackles the question: what happens when consumers let an AI agent make their financial decisions for…
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Our PhD Student Rayna Ney presented her demo at the ACM Interactive Health Conference 2026 in Porto. Her project, Prompting for Mindfulness, lets participants describe out loud the kind of relaxation environment they want to see, and in under a minute, generative AI creates it for a guided box breathing exercise. Combined with cardiac biofeedback,…
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Can SMEs keep up to date with technological developments in AI? In the new paper in ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems, Hannes Kunstmann, Joseph Ollier, Joel Persson, and Florian von Wangenheim explore how SMEs can successfully leverage developments in Conversational AI in interactions with real customers in the field. The paper contributes to the developing…
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Want to collaborate with us on the topic of Conversational AI? 🦾 The Chair of Technology Marketing at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zürich is advertising a new PhD position, with the exciting chance to work alongside two research groups at the chair: and Center for AI Value. During the PhD, the…
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We are proud to announce that the MTEC Foundation has awarded funding to two standout projects within Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH Zurich (Chair of Technology Marketing). 🏆 These grants highlight D-MTEC’s mission to ensure technology serves human well-being and autonomy: Congratulations to the awardees and a special thanks to Professor Florian Wangenheim for…
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Our PhD student Aydin has co-authored the paper “Compose and Fuse: Revisiting the Foundational Bottlenecks in Multimodal Reasoning,” which has been accepted at #ICLR2026. The paper, led by first authors Yucheng Wang and Yifan Hou and co-authored with Mubashara Akhtar and Mrinmaya Sachan, takes a systematic look at how Multimodal Large Language Models integrate signals…
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Digital fatigue, monotony and a cluttered screen of open tabs remain the everyday reality of many virtual exchanges and meetings. But what does it take to design online formats in which participants feel genuinely addressed, cognitively supported and motivated to contribute actively? In our recent contribution to HANDELSZEITUNG, our PhD candidate and researcher Melanie Baumgartner…
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Mélodie Mousset’s Empathy Creatures has been awarded the Social Impact Media Art Award for XR at SIMA 2026. The project was recognized among this year’s winners for its contribution to impact-driven storytelling through immersive media. Congratulations to all collaborators and contributors involved in the project. More information about the SIMA 2026 winners can be found…
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Happy to share that the paper RAxSS: Retrieval-Augmented Sparse Sampling for Explainable Variable-Length Medical Time Series Classification has been accepted to the Learning from Time Series for Health (TS4H) workshop at NeurIPS 2025 as a joint effort by Aydin Javadov and co-authors. They introduce a lightweight, retrieval-augmented convex aggregation approach for clinical time series. Evaluated…
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Our PhD student Aydin attended the Google PhD Summit 2025 in Warsaw, which was an exclusive event bringing together talented PhD researchers from across Europe and Google’s leading scientists and engineers! It was a great opportunity for valuable networking with Googlers and fellow PhD students, and for gaining insights into the latest developments in AI…
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