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DIZH 5. Project-Call: Funded projects

In the 5th project call, the DIZH is funding 12 projects that are characterised by their innovative strength, social relevance and strong practical relevance. 10 of these with the participation of experts out of the UZH.

Funded projects with the participation of UZH experts – innovation with practical relevance

Vox Lapidum

Is an AI-powered inscription chatbot for research, education and cultural mediation

  • Team: Prof. Dr. Anne Kolb, UZH Historisches Seminar | Charlotte Axelsson, PHZH Zentrum Digital Learning | Dr. Ursula Stohler, PHZH Zentrum Bildung und Digitaler Wandel | Marcial Koch, PHZH Zentrum Digital Learning | Dr. Johannes Graën, UZH Zentrale Informatik Science IT | Dr. Jens Bartels, UZH Historisches SeminarDr. Phillip B. Ströbel, UZH Historisches Seminar 
ADAPT

is building an ADHD Data-driven Assessment for Phenotyping & Treatment Prediction

  • Team: Lukasz Smigielski, UZH Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie (KJPP) | Dr. Yanick Lukic, ZHAW School of Engineering | Flavio D’Intino, ZHAW School of Engineering | Dr. Josef Schönhammer, UZH Department of Psychology 

DiSpLA

 

 will be the first automatic speech recognition and language analysis app built for clinical use in Swiss German.

  • Team: Prof. Dr. Nathalie Giroud, UZH Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (KJPP) and Department of Adult Psychiatry and PsychotherapieProf. Dr. Sarah Ebling, UZH Department of Computational Linguistics | Prof. Dr. Volker Dellwo, UZH Department of Computational Linguistics | Dr. Jan Deriu, ZHAW School of Engineering | Dr. Srikanth Madikeri, UZH Department of Computational Linguistics | Manuela Hürlimann, ZHAW School of Engineering | Sarah Baur, UZH Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (KJPP)
Child Vaccination Cards

The project team is developing an AI-powered pipeline to digitize handwritten children’s vaccination cards into CH VACD-conformant HL7 FHIR/JSON data. 

  • Team: Dr. Phung Lang, UZH Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute | Dr. Dunja Nicca, UZH Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute | Dr. Yanick Lukic, ZHAW School of Engineering 
eFICUS

is a digital health intervention to improve Family health and self-care capacity in Intensive Care Units:

  • Team: Prof. Dr. Rahel Naef, UZH Institut für Implementation Science in Health Care, Centre for Clinical Nursing Science, University Hospital Zurich | Prof. Dr. Anna Lisa Martin-Niedecken, ZHdK Institut für Designforschung | Prof. Dr. Tobias Kowatsch, UZH Institut für Implementation Science in Health Care, School of Medicine, University of St.Gallen
MERLIN

is enabling real-time medical reasoning through multi-agent workflows 

  • Team:

    Dr. Tilman Beck, UZH Institut für Intensivmedizin | Dr. Farhad Nooralahzadeh, ZHAW School of Engineering | Dr. med. Jan Folkard Willms, USZ Institut für Intensivmedizin 

Delirium DynamiX

harnesses high-resolution USZ ICU data with on-prem LLMs and novel time-series Additive Bayesian Networks. This interpretable modeling of dynamic causal chains enables earlier delirium detection, targeted interventions, external validation, a co-designed dashboard, and a clinical pilot aiming at ≥20% fewer missed delirium-days.

  • Team: Dr. Dr. Georg Spinner, ZHAW Life Sciences und Facility Management 

    | Prof. Dr. Reinhard Furrer, UZH Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning | Dr. Jan Bartussek, UZH / USZ Institut für Intensivmedizin | Prof. Dr. Anna Lisa Martin-Niedecken, ZHdK Institut für Designforschung 

Adolescents coping with negative emotions induced by social media

is a development of social support strategies and a smartphone-based intervention.

  • Team: Dr. Timon Elmer, UZH Psychologisches Institut |

    Lilian Suter, ZHAW Angewandte Psychologie | Prof. Dr. Urte Scholz, UZH Psychologisches Institut | Prof. Dr. med. Claudia Witt, UZH Medizinische Fakultät 

SAGE

develops a speaker Recognition across Age-Groups for Cantonal Law Enforcement Agencies.

  • Team: Dr. Srikanth Madikeri, UZH Institut für Computerlinguistik | Prof. Dr. Thilo Stadelmann, ZHAW School of Engineering | Prof. Dr. Volker Dellwo, UZH Institut für Computerlinguistik   

Fake or real? Exploring brain signals for deepfake voice detection

Neural measurements are combined with AI methods to develop more robust detection systems that also work with new generators and low-resource languages such as Swiss German. Together with the practice partner aurigin.ai, the project team explores transferring these findings to real-world applications.

  • Team: Dr. Basil Preisig, UZH Linguistik Zentrum Zürich | Prof. Dr. Martin Meyer, UZH Institut für Interdisziplinäre Sprachevolutionswissenschaft | Prof. Dr. Volker Dellwo, UZH Institut für Computerlinguistik | Dr. Jan Deriu, ZHAW School of Engineering 

 

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