About

The AI@UNIL Day is a research‑focused scientific event that brings together UNIL’s AI research community and AI experts from neighboring academic institutions. The event aims to showcase the breadth of AI research conducted at UNIL as well as within regional academic institutions.

More than a scientific meeting, it provides a space for exchange and collaboration, highlighting how artificial intelligence serves as a shared language across disciplines and strengthens connections both within UNIL and with the broader regional research ecosystem.

Through interdisciplinary dialogue and shared expertise, the AI@UNIL Day supports the emergence of new collaborative projects and promotes a dynamic, responsible, and inclusive approach to AI research.

Practical information

Dates

Abstract submission deadline
10 May 2026 [Sunday]
Registration without abstract
28 May 2026
Notification of acceptance
28 May 2026
Conference date
2 June 2026

Registration fees

Attendee submitting an abstract
  FREE

Attendee with no submission

  30 CHF

Keynote Speakers

Ernesto William De Luca
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg

Liudmila Zavolokina
Department of Information Systems
Faculty of Business and Economics

Programme

8:15 - 8:30
Welcome Coffee
8:30 - 9:30
Tutorials:
AI & Machine Learning: What is it?
Gen AI: What is it?
9:30 - 10:15

Ernesto William De Luca - Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg

"Situational Language Model: A Reasoning Paradigm Shift for Probabilistic Decision Support under Uncertainty"
10:15 - 10:45
Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:00

  • Axel Matthey Facuté de Lettres: Prosthesis or Partner? AI, Cognitive Sustainability, and Critical Thinking in the Digital Age
  • Lorenzo Zangari Facuté de Lettres: When Words Reflect Many Worlds: A Semiotic-Aware Framework for Evaluating the Fidelity and Coverage of LLM-Generated Outputs
  • Davide Morselli SSP: An automatic Gen-AI procedure to reconstruct online narratives
12:00 - 13:00
Poster pitch session
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch Break & Poster Session
14:30 - 15:15

Liudmila Zavolokina - University of Lausanne

"Slow Down or Speed Up? Designing AI Systems for Human Judgment"
15:15 - 17:00

  • Sylvain Meylan CHUV: An artificial intelligence-powered learning health system to improve sepsis detection and quality of care: a before-and-after study
  • Eric Ducret FBM: A Locally Deployable Small Language Model Pipeline for Clinical Genetic Variant Interpretation
  • David Presby FBM: Using genetics to interpret retinal foundation models
  • Thomas Sanchez CHUV: What automated quality control in prenatal imaging teaches us about building reliable medical AI
  • Renjun Tang HEC: When AI meets the clock: Vibe coding in Crisis Hackathons
17:00
Aperitif and social gathering

Scientific committee

Register or submit an abstract here


We invite contributions to the AI Day at UNIL, a cross-faculty event showcasing how artificial intelligence is shaping research, teaching, and society at UNIL.

Our goal is to foster interdisciplinary exchange: All faculties and disciplines are warmly invited to contribute, including AI developers and researchers applying or studying AI methods in their fields without necessarily being AI specialists. We especially encourage submissions from early-career researchers, including PhD students.


Cross-faculty themes of interest include, but are not limited to:


Abstract selection criteria:

Share a clear and creative AI project with a simple use case, easy-to-follow methods, solid proof of what it can do, and something fresh that people from different areas can appreciate. ~300 words

Registration and abstract submission


Please complete the full payment process, even if you have already submitted an abstract. In this case the cost will be 0.-

Venue

Address

Amphipôle
Amphipôle, Auditoire C, 1015 Ecublens

Room

Amphipôle C
Amphipôle, POL-344, Auditoire C

Venue photo

Organizers

Speaker Name

Philippe Jacquet

Speaker Name

Mariona Lopez Gil

Speaker Name

Thé Van Luong

Speaker Name

Mikhaël Salamin

Speaker Name

Nicolas Salamin

Speaker Name

Jean-François Van de Poël

Mariona Lopez Gil