The Idiap Research Institute in Figures
Human resources
14 permanent researchers
11 postdoctoral researchers
29 PhD students
9 development engineers
6 system engineers
20 interns and visitors per year
6 doctorates awarded
30 positions in start-ups on the IdeArk site 9 administrative employees 25 nationalities represented
Scientific activities
IM2 National Centre of Competence in Research (Interactive Multimodal Information Management) since 2001.
Participation in 37 research programmes
Project management of 5 consortiums
Participation in the economic development strategy of the Canton of Valais through The Ark programme and in particular the IdeArk company
133 scientific publications Organisation of a number of international conferences
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