Idiap is a research institute of national importance active in the field of artificial intelligence that engages in fundamental research, education, and technology transfer.

Expertise Domains
Including biometrics, attack and fraud detection, privacy preservation, synthetic data, fairness, and trustworthy identity technologies.
Including efficiency in AI systems, intelligent energy systems, sustainability & comfort optimisation, and decision support in environmental and energy applications.
Including computational biology, medical data science, evidence synthesis, knowledge representation, decision support systems, and multi-modal signal processing.
Including social computing, activity understanding, multi-modal processing, computer vision, assistive technology, human-robot interaction, robot learning & interaction, and demographic fairness.
Including deep learning, foundation models (e.g., large language models), Bayesian methods, neuro-symbolic methods, reasoning, agentic methods, optimal design, efficiency, robustness, interpretability, and explainability.
Including computational linguistics, multilinguality, language understanding, spoken language understanding, information extraction and retrieval, semantic modelling, and text mining.
Including speech recognition, speech synthesis, paralinguistics, environmental audio analysis, probabilistic inference from acoustic data, and signal processing for communication.
About us

About us
Established in Martigny since 1991, the Idiap research institute has continually pushed the boundaries of AI research and innovation.
In the last 5 years:
