2026
News list
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Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Honours UZH Professor for research that helped shape today's AI systems
Rico Sennrich, Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Zurich, has been awarded the ACL 2026 Test-of-Time Paper Award for the landmark paper Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units, co-authored with Barry Haddow and Alexandra Birch.
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UZH.ai is hiring! (2 roles!)
UZH.ai, the AI hub of the University of Zurich, is expanding its core team – and we’re looking for people who want to build and scale AI collaborations at Switzerland’s largest university.
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UZH.ai x DSI Excellence Program
The UZH.ai Fellowship is a specialized, funded track within the DSI Excellence Program. It is designed for outstanding doctoral students at the University of Zurich whose research focuses on the development, application, or societal implications of Artificial Intelligence.
While following the full interdisciplinary curriculum of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI), UZH.ai Fellows receive additional financial support, dedicated industry mentoring, and access to a specialized AI research community. The goal is to empower a new generation of researchers to lead UZH’s human-centered approach to AI across all faculties.
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UZH.ai Student Board
Students shaping the future of AI at the University of Zurich
Artificial Intelligence is transforming research, education, and society. At the University of Zurich, students play an important role in exploring what this transformation means across disciplines.
The UZH.ai Student Board brings together motivated students who want to actively shape how AI is discussed, experienced, and developed at UZH.
Students from all faculties are invited to contribute ideas, organize activities, and help build a vibrant community around responsible and human-centered AI.