One of the frustrations of working with agents is that they forget. Every Claude Code [1] session starts fresh, from a system prompt, a project file, and whatever notes you maintain, and all of them share one property, that someone has to decide what is worth …
The latest issue of Alma (3/2026, “Trends”) features our work in its TechTonic column, titled “Der KI wachsen Ohren in Wasserkraftwerken” (“AI grows ears in hydropower plants”). Alma is the quarterly member magazine of HSG …
Zakaria Omarar completed his Master’s thesis, Multimodal Sensing for Acoustic–Vibration Based Fault Localization in Hydropower (PDF). The thesis combines microphone arrays and vibration sensors to detect and localize faults, and asks an adversarial …
Karim Khamaisi’s paper OpenCSI: Self-Calibration Layer for Heterogeneous Mesh Wireless Sensor Networks was accepted as a full regular paper at the 51st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2026), one of the longest-running IEEE networking …
Our joint hydropower project with illwerke vkw was featured in the Vorarlberger Nachrichten on 27 June 2026, as part of the WISTO series “Forschungskompetenzen nutzen” (putting research competencies to work), which highlights research partnerships …
Our paper Tracking Trackers: ML-based Personal Tracker Detection in Crowded IoT Environments was presented at the 31st IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2026), held on 23 to 26 June 2026 in Vilamoura, Portugal. The work is a collaboration …
Our paper Multi-Modal Acoustic-Vibration Array Monitoring for Anomaly Detection and Source Localization in a Pumped-Storage Turbine was accepted (Track 1) at Viennahydro 2026, the 23rd International Seminar on Hydropower Plants, organized by TU Wien’s …
On 10 June 2026, Bruno served on the PhD defense committee of Adnei Willian Donatti at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. Adnei defended his thesis Energy-Aware Orchestration in Network Slicing: An AI-Driven Approach to VNF …
Two Bachelor’s theses were concluded on the same day. Louis Hollinger completed Beyond Dots on a Map: Designing and Evaluating a Truck-First Visibility Prototype for B2B Road Freight Logistics, a full working prototype for truck-first shipment visibility …
Tibor Haller completed his Master’s thesis, Explainable Multimodal-based Depression Awareness at the Edge (PDF), co-supervised with Bernhard Bermeitinger. Congratulations, Tibor! More than 230 million people live with major depressive disorder, and most …
The group presented two papers at NOMS 2026, the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, held on 18 to 22 May 2026 in Rome, Italy, in a highly selective year for the conference (53 of 213 full-paper submissions accepted). Stephan Nef presented …
Together with Simon Mayer, we hosted a talk in the Computer Science Insights @HSG series of the School of Computer Science: AI in Industry: Expectations, Realities, and the Role of Computer Scientists, by Wilhelm Kleiminger, Head of Data Science at Ergon …
Maximilian Huwyler completed his Master’s thesis at UZH (co-supervised with Burkhard Stiller of the Communication Systems Group (CSG)): a five-node wireless acoustic-vibration testbed for industrial predictive maintenance, showing that detection and …
Bruno Rodrigues wrote a piece for the cybersecurity issue of the University of St. Gallen’s HSG Focus magazine, Your WiFi is watching you. It explains, for a general audience, how ordinary WiFi signals can reveal human presence, movement, and even vital …
Our work-in-progress paper Towards Interpretable Depression Detection: Linking Acoustic Features to DSM-5 Indicators was presented at IEEE PerCom 2026, the 24th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, held from 16 to 20 March …
Jorge Alejandro Ortiz Valério completed his Master’s thesis, Identity-verified Gesture Recognition based on Time-of-Flight Sensors (PDF), and we put together a short video that shows the system running. Congratulations, Jorge! Touch-free gesture control …
Bruno Rodrigues gave an invited lecture on network security in the Hacking Lab (8.863) at the University of St. Gallen, the hands-on security course run by our colleague Prof. Guido Salvaneschi and his Programming Group. The session ran as two blocks: 45 …
The School of Computer Science hosted David Kriesel in the Computer Science Insights @HSG talk series, this time collocated as the colloquium talk of the SCS Student Conference: Bahnmining - How to Setup Guerilla Data Projects. The SCS Student Conference is …
Congratulations to Colin Wai-Loen Berendt and Loris Fabian Klindworth, who won third place for Best Presentation at the SCS Student Conference on 11 December 2025 with their Bachelor Project BATradar: Acoustic Drone Localization Engine. The SCS Student …
Presenting at the 4th ICV-HSG CC-Workshop, under the theme “Intelligent Build and Buildings”, at the Tridonic Light Forum in Dornbirn On 9 December 2025, we spoke at the 4th CC-Workshop of the ICV-HSG, hosted by Tridonic at its Light Forum in …
At the 15th ACM International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2025), held on 19 to 21 November 2025 in Vienna, the group’s work was recognized twice. Best Paper Award — LongevIoT workshop Best Paper Candidate — main conference …
We had the pleasure of hosting Jordan Janeiro, PhD, Technical Program Manager at Google, in the Computer Science Insights @HSG series of the School of Computer Science, in the Arena at SQUARE. His talk, Web Crawling Infrastructures in Digital Advertising, …
Our work on off-grid civilian emergency communication was featured by the security news outlet Help Net Security, under the headline “New system aims to keep people connected when networks fail.” Help Net Security’s coverage of the …
Title slide of the lecture: Embedded Sensing, Enabling a Digital Perception of the Real World On 24 September 2025, Bruno Rodrigues gave a public lecture, Embedded Sensing: Enabling a Digital Perception of the Real World, in the University of St. Gallen …
On 9 September 2025 I gave a talk at the Communication Systems Group (CSG) Research Retreat in Wädenswil. CSG was my academic home during my PhD and postdoc, and it is always a pleasure to return for these retreats and to reconnect with the colleagues and …
The group presented two papers at the IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SmartComp 2025), held on 16 to 19 June 2025 in Cork, Ireland. Bruno Rodrigues presenting the “Beyond Training” poster at SmartComp 2025 Comparing Business …
In our Embedded Sensing Systems course (spring 2025), we welcomed Dr. Vana Jelicic, Domain Expert Sensors at Tridonic (part of the Zumtobel Group), for a guest lecture on 19 May 2025, titled “Sensing in smart lighting systems.” Dr. Vana Jelicic …
We were pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Charles Christian Miers, Associate Professor at the Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC), Brazil (LinkedIn), to the Computer Science Insights @HSG series of the School of Computer Science, in the Arena at …
On 1 April 2025 I gave an invited talk at Tridonic in Dornbirn, Passive Wireless Tracking in the Wild. It covered our work on passive, physical-layer sensing: inferring presence and movement from the wireless signals that are already around us, and the privacy …
We welcomed Manuel Eugster, CTO of Rhomberg Holding & Bau Holding, to the Computer Science Insights @HSG series of the School of Computer Science with his talk Construction in the Digital Age. Construction is one of the oldest human activities and one of …
Our “Hearing Problems” talk at the 2nd CC-Workshop, hosted by Haberkorn On 3 December 2024, we took part in the 2nd CC-Workshop of the ICV-HSG, hosted by Haberkorn in Wolfurt. The CC-Workshop is a recurring, cross-industry gathering that brings …
On 22 October 2024 I took part in a panel during the University of St. Gallen’s Latin America Week: the session Brazilian Research in Switzerland, organised with Rede Brasil Suíça. We talked about doing research in Switzerland and the paths that bring …
Title slide: Challenges, Opportunities, and Projects in Embedded Sensing Systems In June 2024 we took part in the first CC-Workshop of the ICV-HSG, the inaugural edition of what has since become a recurring, cross-industry gathering. The CC-Workshop brings …
