We are the Sensing Group, part of the Institute of Computer Science in Vorarlberg (ICV), within the School of Computer Science at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), in Dornbirn.
Our research centres on integrated sensing and communication (ISAC): the signals and networks that connect devices can also sense the world, and the sensors that observe it must communicate, efficiently and securely. We study this in real-world applications, from Wi-Fi that detects people to acoustic monitoring of hydropower plants, under the lens of performance, efficiency, and security. We actively collaborate with industry partners in the Vorarlberg region and with research groups within the SCS and beyond.
Reading the Wi-Fi, RF, acoustic, and vibration signals a space already carries to understand people, activity, and machines, and finding the limits of what each modality can reveal.
We investigate what wireless and sensor systems fundamentally leak, and how to design architectures that keep inference private, on-device, and under the user's control.
Turning the partial, distrustful views of independent parties into reliable collective defence with no central authority, from cooperative DDoS mitigation to resilient off-grid communication.
Karim Khamaisi successfully presented both of his OpenCSI contributions at the 51st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2026) in Coimbra, Portugal: the full paper, which introduces a self-calibration layer for WiFi sensing on …
At the Bachelor project midterm session on Wednesday, 7 October, Karla Ruggaber and Thierry Suhner presented the progress of their project Can My Network Tell How I Feel?, on explainable depression indicators from network traffic metadata. …
Stefan Krummenacher completed his Master’s thesis, Self-Supervised Transfer Learning for Acoustic Anomaly Detection in Pumped-Storage Hydropower Plants (PDF), advised together with Jinyuan Zhang and co-supervised with Bernhard …
Our demonstration Tracing a DSM-5 Depression Assessment from Score to Formula on Edge Hardware has been accepted at IEEE WiMob 2026, the 22nd International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, in …
Karim Khamaisi’s demonstration OpenCSI: A Self-Calibrating, Cross-Hardware WiFi Sensing Mesh was accepted at the 51st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2026), taking place October 7 to 9, 2026 in Coimbra, Portugal. It …
We currently have one PhD position open. Prospective students, collaborators, and industry partners are welcome to get in touch.
