Alain WegmannAlain Wegmann joined EPFL in 1996. His interests are in techniques to better align business and IT. He developed, with his group and partners, the SEAM methods: SEAM for business (strategic thinking), SEAM for enterprise architecture (business/IT alignment) and SEAM for software (IT). The originality of SEAM is in the integration of generic systems thinking principles into discipline-specific methods. This integration has three benefits: (1) the possibility to relate the different disciplines (by having common systemic principles); (2) the capability to leverage on discipline-specific knowledge (by using the vocabulary and the heuristics of each discipline) and (3) to be more efficient in solving problems (by benefiting from the problem solving techniques developed in systems thinking). SEAM is currently applied in master courses and consulting. Consulting is done for start-ups developing their business and technology strategies and for large companies having service-oriented architecture projects.
Prior to joining EPFL, Alain Wegmann worked for 14 years with Logitech in software development/engineering management (Switzerland, Taiwan, US), manufacturing (Taiwan) and marketing (US). When he left Logitech, Alain Wegmann was engineering vice-president and marketing director for large accounts.
Christian GiangChristian Giang is a researcher at the Machine Learning for Education Laboratory (ML4ED), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Laboratory for Technology and Media in Education, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). He received the PhD degree in Robotics from EPFL and the BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from ETH Zürich. His research focuses on the use of educational technologies in formal education.
Jauwairia NasirI am a doctoral candidate and a Marie Curie ITN Fellow in the field of Robotics at Computer-Human Interaction for Learning and Instruction Lab at EPFL where I currently work towards building Human-Robot Interaction technologies, leveraging AI, to help improve learning environments for kids. I did my Masters in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from KAIST, South Korea and my Bachelors in Electronics Engineering from School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (SEECS) NUST in Pakistan. During my Bachelors and Masters degrees, my research revolved around path planning algorithms for mobile robots and autonomous household robots for elderly, respectively.As the Women in AI (WAI) Education Lead in Switzerland, I organize WAI educational activities in the country such as WaiCAMPs and am also a part of WAI’s Global Education Task Force. I am passionate about causes such as safe and unbiased AI, education for all, and discrimination free society.
