Alisa Rupenyan
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Alisa Rupenyan is the Rieter endowed professor of Industrial AI at the Zurich University for Applied Sciences. She received a BSc in Engineering physics and an MSc degree in Laser physics from the University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria, in 2004 and 2005, and a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 2010. Between 2011-2014 she was a postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, studying dynamics of electron reactions (ETH Excellence Postdoctoral Fellowship), and between 2014-2018 a lead scientist in a Swiss robotics start-up. Between 2018 and 2023 she was a group leader in automation and advanced control at inspire AG, a technology transfer institute connected to ETH Zurich, and at the same time senior scientist and PI at the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich. Her research interests are on the intersection between machine learning, control, and optimization for industrial applications and robotics. Alisa Rupenyan is also an expert in IT and Engineering for the Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse).