Dr. Elena Gavagnin

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Co-Head of Information Systems and Technologies a.i.
• Senior Lecturer and Project Leader for Data Science

Focus

• Machine Learning
• Predictive Analytics
• Computational Astrophysics

Teaching

Senior Lecturer and Project Leader for Data Science

Experience

• Business Intelligence Data Scientist
  SWISS Intl. Air Lines
  11 / 2017 - 09 / 2019
• Teaching Assistant
  University of Zurich
  01 / 2013 - 02 / 2017

Education and Continuing education

Education

• PhD / Institute of Computational Science
  University of Zurich
  01 / 2013 - 02 / 2017
• MSc / Astrophysics
  Università degli Studi di Bologna
  09 / 2010 - 12 / 2012
• BSc / Physics
  Università degli Studi di Bologna
  09 / 2007 - 12 / 2010

Continuing Education

CAS Higher and Professional Education
Zurich University of Applied Sciences
07 / 2021

Network

Membership of networks

• SKACH
• Alumni Association of Collegio Superiore, University of Bologna

Projects

• Multimodal Anonymization of Gameplay Data / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Transforming clinical assessments: Explicitly articulating implicit clinical decision-making to train AI / Team member / Project ongoing
• Square Kilometre Array: Mock-observations via generative deep learning / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Digital Companion / Team member / Project ongoing
• Intent detection in citizen-based damage reporting systems / Project leader / Project completed
• Tele-Assessment: Leveraging Deep Learning to Assess Upper Limb Kinematics after Stroke with Off-the-shelf Webcams / Team member / Project completed
• Dynamic pricing against food waste in university catering facilities / Project leader / Project completed
• Acceptance of an app for contact-tracing of SARS-CoV-2 in the Swiss population / Team member / Project completed
• Gamification: A browser-based Tool for Experiments / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Unger, T.; de Sousa Ribeiro, R.; Mokni, M.; Weikert, T.; Pohl, J.; Schwarz, A.; Held, J.P.O.; Sauerzopf, L.; Kühnis, B.; Gavagnin, E.; Luft, A.R.; Gassert, R.; Lambercy, O.; Awai Easthope, C.; Schönhammer, J.G.,

  2024.

  Upper limb movement quality measures : comparing IMUs and optical motion capture in stroke patients performing a drinking task.

  Frontiers in Digital Health.

  6(1359776).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2024.1359776

• Schilling, Frank-Peter; Flumini, Dandolo; Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel; Gavagnin, Elena; Geller, Armando; Quarteroni, Silvia; Stadelmann, Thilo,

  2022.

  Foundations of Data Science : a comprehensive overview formed at the 1st International Symposium on the Science of Data Science.

  Archives of Data Science, Series A.

  8(2).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000146422

• Helland, Solveig; Gavagnin, Elena; de Spindler, Alexandre,

  2023.

  Divide et impera : multi-transformer architectures for complex NLP-tasks [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 8th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference.

  8th Swiss Text Analytics Conference – SwissText 2023, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 12-14 June 2023.

  Association for Computational Linguistics.

  pp. 70-75.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30386

• Brucker-Kley, Elke; Keller, Thomas; Borghoff, Birgitta; Stutz, Isabelle; Michot, Janick; de Spindler, Alexandre; Gavagnin, Elena; Turegard, Jonathan,

  2024.

  Science fiction prototyping : friendship with artificial intelligence.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2495

• Brucker-Kley, Elke; Keller, Thomas; Borghoff, Birgitta; Stutz, Isabelle; Michot, Janick; de Spindler, Alexandre; Gavagnin, Elena; Turegard, Jonathan,

  2024.

  Science Fiction Prototyping : Freundschaft mit Künstlicher Intelligenz.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2494

• Denzel, Philipp; Schilling, Frank-Peter; Gavagnin, Elena,

  2023.

  Map-to-map translation for SKA mock observations and cosmological simulations [poster].

  In:

  Hammers & Nails 2023 - Swiss Edition, Ascona, Switzerland, 29 October - 3 November 2023.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29047

• Denzel, Philipp Benedikt; Schilling, Frank-Peter; Gavagnin, Elena,

  2023.

  Deep learning the SKA : the Square Kilometer Array project [poster].

  In:

  Datalab Symposium, Winterthur, Schweiz, 11. Januar 2023.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27219

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Elena Gavagnin, Andreas Bleuler, Joakim Rosdahl, Romain Teyssier, Star cluster formation in a turbulent molecular cloud self-regulated by photoionization feedback, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 472, Issue 4, December 2017, Pages 4155–4172,
• Elena Gavagnin, Michela Mapelli, George Lake, A critical look at the merger scenario to explain multiple populations and rotation in iron-complex globular clusters, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 461, Issue 2, 11 September 2016, Pages 1276–1287,
• M. Mapelli, A. Vallenari, R. D. Jeffries, E. Gavagnin, T. Cantat-Gaudin, G. G. Sacco, M. R. Meyer, E. J. Alfaro, M. Costado, F. Damiani, A. Frasca, A. C. Lanzafame, S. Randich, R. Sordo, S. Zaggia, G. Micela, E. Flaccomio, E. Pancino, M. Bergemann, A. Hourihane, C. Lardo, L. Magrini, L. Morbidelli, L. Prisinzano and C. C. Worley, "The Gaia-ESO Survey: N-body modelling of the Gamma Velorum cluster", A&A, 578 (2015) A35,

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