AI Applications and Deployment Lab

We develop and deploy intelligent AI solutions across diverse domains, specializing in predictive analytics, generative AI, and AI-driven automation, with applications ranging from demand forecasting and adaptive learning assistants to AI-powered document processing and gamified sustainability education . Our expertise extends to multi-modal AI, integrating text, images, and structured data to create practical, user-centric solutions.

We collaborate with industries, SMEs, and researchers to bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI research and real-world impact, ensuring responsible and efficient AI deployment on cloud, on-premise, and consumer hardware.

Our Offerings

We have expertise in carrying out end-to-end application development and deployment of AI in various fields. We work with state of the art generative as well as discriminative AI technologies like transformer models, large language models, diffusion models, and support multiple modalities like text, image, speech etc.

✓ Applied Research and Collaboration with Industry

✓ End-to-End AI Application Development and Deployment

✓ Smart AI Assistants and Agents

Our AI Research Projects

Automation and Digital Transformation

AI for Automation & Digital Transformation

  • AI for digitization for architectucal plans
  • Standardized report generation from unstructured documents

 

Predictive Analytics & Smart Planning

Predictive Analytics & Smart Planning

  • Forecasting demand for heavy manufacturing industries
  • Forecasting for cinemas to predict the viewers
  • AI-powered film selection, allocation and hall scheduling  for cinemas
  • Social Media Data for Forecasting

AI Assistants

AI Assistants

  1. A tutor for an adapative learning with AI
  2. A tutor to practice writing chemical formulas and identify errors
  3. AI-powered AR platform for teaching social workers, offering immersive simulations

AI for Well-being & Sustainability

AI for Well-being & Sustainability

  • AI assisted serious games to enable crowd sourcing of sustainability practices
  • AI-assisted Gamification and nudging in sustainability education
  • AI for smart meal planning, including recipe parsing, image processing, and nutrition calculation

Current Supervised student projects

Bachelor Projects

Current Bachelor Projects (FS'25)

  1. Visualization of nutritional progress through user avatar transformation for smart eating
  2. Development of a 2D video game with LLMs for control and nudging
  3. Who did what, to whom, where, and when?
  4. Generative AI for intelligent 8-D report generation

Masters Projects

Current MSE Projects (FS'25)

  1. Generative AI for Neutral Dialogues to Facilitate Easy, Educated, and Informed Voting in Switzerland.
  2. Optimal TinyML Deployment of AI Models for Computer Vision on Embedded Hardware Platforms.
  3. Wind Speed Interpolation with High Granularity Using Data from Existing Stations.

Team

Prof. Dr. Mitra Purandare

IFS Institut für Software Professorin, IFS

+41 58 257 46 44 mitra.purandare@ost.ch

Clemens Meier

IFS Institut für Software Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter II

+41 58 257 47 38 clemens.meier@ost.ch

Benjamin Plattner

IFS Institut für Software Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter AI

+41 58 257 18 06 benjamin.plattner@ost.ch

Lars Herrmann

IFS Institut für Software Wissenschaftlicher Assistent

lars.herrmann@ost.ch

Kevin Löffler

IFS Institut für Software

+41 58 257 38 72 kevin.loeffler@ost.ch

Ciro Brodmann

IFS Institut für Software

+41 58 257 18 45 ciro.brodmann@ost.ch