The Poster Sessions & Flash Talks of the AI Village take place in the Aare Foyer, offering an interactive environment for researchers and practitioners to present their work. While other workshops and presentations continue in dedicated rooms, attendees can explore various AI-related projects and innovations through poster displays and short flash talks.

For details, see the list of Poster Sessions & Flash Talks.

Presenters will be available at their posters to discuss their work, answer questions, and engage in detailed conversations about their research. Flash talks provide quick 5-minute overviews of key findings, allowing attendees to efficiently identify topics of interest for deeper discussion during the poster viewing sessions.

These sessions run throughout the day parallel to the main conference track, allowing participants to move freely between different formats. Please check the schedule below for specific presentation times:

The schedule for this event will be announced soon.

To see the schedule of the last event, see the archived site: Swiss Cyber Storm 2025.

About the speakers

Prof. Dr. Ariane Trammell

Head of Information Security Research at ZHAW

Prof. Dr. Ariane Trammell is an expert in the field of information security, currently serving as the Head of the Research Area Information Security at the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland. In addition, she is the Deputy Head of the Institute of Computer Science (InIT) at ZHAW.
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Maurice Amon

Research Assistant at ZHAW

Maurice Amon works as a research assistant within the Information Security Group (ISE) at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in Winterthur. He holds a B. Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Bern and is in the final stage of completing his M. Sc. in the same discipline. His academic and professional interests center on NLP, AI Software Engineering and LLMs, including their architecture.
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Dr. Nicolas Badoux

EPFL (HexHive)

Nicolas Badoux is a PhD graduate in software security from HexHive @ EPFL with expertise in low-level protection mechanisms, automated vulnerability detection, and security design. His research focused on library fuzzing and compiler-based mitigations for the C++ language. Curious by nature, he loves to understand how stuff works and what are their weakest points.
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Paul Bagourd

Graduate Intern at Cyber Defense Campus (Armasuisse S&T)

Paul Bagourd is an EPFL-trained applied mathematician with a background in Artificial Intelligence and Quantum technologies. At CYD Campus that he joined in May 2025, he develops Graph Neural Networks methods to map and forecast the evolution of emergent technologies such as quantum technologies. More generally, he enjoys exploring the forefront of scientific advancements to contribute meaningfully to our evolving world!
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Tomas Joaquin Anderegg

Master Student at EPFL

Tomas, a second year Robotics student at EPFL with a strong curiosity for exploring new ideas and technologies. Before entering engineering, I spent several years studying languages, which helped me develop a broad, open-minded perspective and a passion for learning. My spontaneous and adventurous nature drives me to constantly seek new challenges, both academic and personal. Through my studies, I discovered the fascinating world of Machine Learning and Deep Learning, where I’m eager to combine analytical thinking with creativity to build intelligent systems that can interact meaningfully with the world around me.
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Dr. Anastasiia Kucherenko

Scientific Collaborator at HES-SO Valais-Wallis (IEM)

Dr. Anastasiia Kucherenko is a postdoctoral researcher at HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland, working at the intersection of AI safety and cybersecurity in collaboration with the Cyber Defense Campus. Her research focuses on the safety of large language models, developing methods to trace and evaluate their training data and prevent harmful or biased outputs. She completed a PhD in Computer Science at EPFL on robustness and anonymity in large-scale distributed systems, and held cryptography research internships at Microsoft Research and the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. Her work has been presented at top conferences including ACL, CCS, DISC, and SRDS.
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Dr. Elena Nazarenko

Lecturer at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)

Dr. Elena Nazarenko is a lecturer at HSLU and Co-head of the LLMs and AI Agents bootcamp. Her work focuses on applying AI responsibly, with a special interest in bias mitigation and small language models. Her industry experience includes serving as Head of Data and AI at Witty Works, where she built the core algorithm for their inclusive writing assistant (Hugging Face startup accelerator participant and Microsoft Entrepreneurship for Positive Impact Cup 2024 finalist). She and her students recently earned the Best Paper Award at the Swiss Data Science Conference and Best Poster Award at Swiss Text.
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Alexander Sternfeld

Associate Researcher at HES-SO Valais-Wallis (IEM)

Alexander Sternfeld is an associate researcher at the Reliable Information Lab, at the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Management (HES-SO Valais-Wallis). In this position, he is currently focusing on the safety of Large Language Models, both considering their evaluation and training procedures. Additionally, he works in technology monitoring, focusing mostly on bibliometric methods. He has obtained bachelors in both economics and econometrics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Afterwards, he shifted his focus towards machine learning through a Master’s in Data Science at EPFL, Lausanne.
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Dr. Loic Marechal

Scientific Collaborator at HES-SO Valais-Wallis (IEM)

Dr. Loïc Maréchal is a Scientific collaborator at the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Management, HES-SO Valais-Wallis. His current research applies financial methods to estimate the costs of cyberattacks and the value of cybersecurity-providing firms. He has taught finance at the Universities of Neuchâtel and Geneva, ESSEC Business School, and Les Roches. With over 10 years of experience in commodity markets, including working on trading desks and completing his Ph.D. dissertation, he also has a strong interest in machine learning and market microstructure. He is a French and Swiss citizen based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Dr. Sébastien Rouault

Co-founder and CTO at Calicarpa

After double-graduating from CentraleSupélec and EPFL (MSc), Sébastien obtained his PhD in machine learning security at EPFL, where he pioneered algorithms at the foundation of his field. His scientific background spans from mathematics and statistics to design principles of computer systems, strengthened by well over a decade of real-world, hands-on experiences. Sébastien also co-founded Calicarpa in 2023, where he researches and develops advanced distributed software solutions at the intersection of information security and machine learning.
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