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  • Challenges presented in my course on Digital Innovation and Design Thinking

    Challenges presented in my course on Digital Innovation and Design Thinking

    What does AI for humanitarian action, organizational inertia, and sustainable forest investment have in common? These are the challenges that our student teams at University of Lausanne – UNIL will tackle in my Digital Innovation and Design Thinking course. Three quite different challenges, yet all requiring human-centered innovation and creative problem-solving. Last week, we kicked…

  • How AI technology helps refugees and identifies propaganda

    How AI technology helps refugees and identifies propaganda

    See Kilian talking about our research on the use of LLMs in crises. Well-done, Kilian Sprenkamp 👏🏻 Read the article (in German) here: Inside-IT

  • Data-driven intelligence in crisis

    Data-driven intelligence in crisis

    In the face of humanitarian crises, how can we ensure data becomes meaningful action? For nearly three years, my team and I have been working on solutions to the urgent and complex challenges of humanitarian and crisis response caused by the war in Ukraine. One part of our ongoing work is a new study, published…

  • 2nd runner up for the best paper award @ICIS24

    2nd runner up for the best paper award @ICIS24

    Happy and proud to share that our paper, “Resilience in Times of Crisis: Empowering Refugees with Self-Sovereign Identity,” co-authored by Aleksandra Garazha, Cédric Merz, and Gerhard Schwabe, received the 2nd runner up for the best overall conference complete paper award at the International Conference on Information Systems 2024 in Bangkok out of app. 260+ complete papers published.

  • Using Large Language Models for the Assessment of Sustainable Forest Investment Projects

    Using Large Language Models for the Assessment of Sustainable Forest Investment Projects

    How can AI support decision-making in the assessment of sustainable forest investment projects? This is what we’re looking into in our new research paper, “Using Large Language Models for the Assessment of Sustainable Forest Investment Projects,” co-authored by Maria Letizia Jannibelli, Jiayu Luo and Kilian Sprenkamp. Kilian will present it at HICSS 2025 in January. The paper…

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