Organisation of the Faculty of Informatics
Faculty Council
The Faculty Council exercises its authority on all general matters related to the interests of the Faculty, especially those pertaining to teaching and research activities. More information are available in the Faculty statute. The list of professors and representatives of students, Phds, post-docs and lecturers is available in Plan of Studies of the Faculty.
Dean and Vice Deans
The Dean and the Vice Deans act as the Faculty's executive body. The Dean, assisted by the Vice Deans, leads and manages the Faculty by implementing the decisions of the Faculty Council and the Board of Professors. The Dean represents the Faculty in the USI Council. More information are available in the Faculty statute.
Current Dean and Vice Deans:
Ernst Wit
Ernst Wit
Dean of the Faculty of Informatics
Professor Ernst C. Wit is Professor of Statistics and Data Science and serves as the director of the Institute of Computing. He obtained PhDs in Philosophy (1997, Penn State) and Statistics (2000, University of Chicago) in the US. From 2000 until 2005 he was in the Statistics Department at the University of Glasgow, where he became a Reader. In 2005 he became head of the Medical Statistics Unit (12 FTE) at the University of Lancaster as full professor. From 2008 until 2018 Wit was at the University of Groningen. Since 2018 he is working in Switzerland, where he has continued to work on methodological development in high-dimensional inference with a specific focus on network modelling.
Gabriele Bavota
Gabriele Bavota
Prof. Bavota's research interests lie in the area of software maintenance and evolution. His current research is focused on the development of recommender systems supporting software developers, the mining of software repositories, and empirical software engineering. He heads the SEART research group.
Laura Pozzi
Laura Pozzi
Prof. Pozzi is interested in the interaction between compiler and architecture design in the field of embedded systems. Her research mostly revolves around the automation of embedded processor customization and the definition of innovative configurable fabrics.
Board of Professors
The Board of Professors identifies the Faculty members that are called upon to sit in a commission for the appointment of professors, assigns courses to lecturers, and proposes the awarding of Honoris Causa and Professor Emeritus. More information are available in the Faculty statute.
Other contact persons
Below is a list of other persons who hold managerial positions within the activities of the Faculty.
Coordinator of Faculty activities / projects and external relations
Ing. Mauro Prevostini
Delegate for International Relations
Prof. Paolo Tonella
Delegate for Innovation and Corporate Relations
Prof. Antonio Carzaniga
Delegate for Continuing Education
Prof. Carlo Alberto Furia
Delegates for Student Affairs
Prof. Olaf Schenk & Prof. Carlo Alberto Furia
Study curricula Directors
- Bachelor
- Bachelor in Informatics
Prof. Laura Pozzi & Prof. Gabriele Bavota - Bachelor in Data Science
Prof. Ernst Wit & Prof. Paul Schneider
- Bachelor in Informatics
- Master
- Master in Informatics
Prof. Kai Hormann & Prof. Evanthia Papadopoulou - Master in Artificial Intelligence
Prof. Luca Maria Gambardella & Prof. Piotr Didyk - Master in Computational Science
Prof. Olaf Schenk & Prof. Ernst Wit - Master in Financial Technology and Computing
Prof. Marc Langheinrich & Prof. Fernando Pedone / Prof. Erik Nowak & Prof. Peter Gruber - Master in Management and Informatics
Prof. Marc Langheinrich & Prof. Dirk Martignoni - Master in Software and Data Engineering
Prof. Cesare Pautasso & Prof. Matthias Hauswirth
- Master in Informatics
- PhD
Prof. Walter Binder & Prof. Stefan Wolf
Dean's office and services
Please visit the following page:
www.inf.usi.ch/en/practical-information/deans-office-and-services
Institutes
According to USI statute, Institutes are training and research units supported by one or more Faculties, subject to approval by the University Council.
The responsibilities, tasks, organisation and members of the Institutes are defined by specific agreements between the Faculties and the Rectorate. These agreements set the scope and limits within which an Institute can engage in its own right with third parties. The contract has limited duration and is renewable.
The Institutes do not have a distinct legal personality and are headed by a Director appointed among professors (Full or Associate) of the Institutes, according to the terms of agreement. Specialised sub-units (centres, observatories, laboratories, groups ...) can be created inside or in cooperation between the institutes, with the aim of carrying out specific research projects and/or handling specific aspect of the training.
The list of the Institutes supported by the Faculty of Informatics is available at this page: