Three contributions, one message: good AI design begins with human judgment, not in place of it. That’s what my research team brought to the AI@UNIL Day. Renjun Tang presented “When AI meets the clock: Vibe coding in Crisis Hackathons” – how AI-assisted coding can support crisis practitioners and strengthen resilience. The long-term vision: can we…

On May 29, I’ll be sitting on the jury for the GovTech Hackathon 2026 in Bern, and I’m genuinely curious about what happens when you bring together developers, government experts, and civil society advocates around a single question: what can we build with public data? The hackathon theme “Exploiting data, generating impact” sounds straightforward, but…

Academia can be deeply rewarding, frustrating, uncertain, exciting, and exhausting, sometimes all in the same week. On May 13, I’ll join the next FINE tea at HEC Lausanne for an open conversation on academic careers and the realities of being a woman in academia. I’ll share a few pleasant and unpleasant truths I’ve learned along…

Last week, I had the pleasure of delivering a guest lecture at the University of Derby, kindly invited by Dr Chinthaka Jayananda Aluthgama-Baduge. Rather than focusing on AI as a standalone technology, the session explored the following question: How do we use AI to enhance design thinking without replacing human creativity? We explored how AI…