Dr. Jürgen Bernard

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Jürgen Bernard is an Assistant Professor for Interacting Data at the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) at the University of Zurich. Before starting in Zurich in September 2020, he was a postdoc at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Jürgen studied Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt, focusing on Applied Computer Science, and obtained his doctorate in 2015 from the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research. Since 2016, he has led a junior research group on Visual-Interactive Machine Learning at the Technical University of Darmstadt, within the Graphics-Interactive Systems (GRIS) department. He has received several awards, including the Hugo-Geiger Prize for excellent dissertations from the Fraunhofer Society in 2016, the Dirk-Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine in 2017, and the EuroVis Young Researcher Award from Eurographics in 2021. His research interests are in Visual Analytics and Information Visualization, focusing on the characterization, design, and evaluation of visually interactive interfaces that combine the strengths of humans and algorithms in interactive machine learning and human-centered data science applications, with important application areas including climate and earth observation, digital libraries, human motion analysis, music classification, sports data analysis, stock chart analysis, shopping and ranking systems, and particularly medical and patient-centered research.

Research Interests

Experience

Assistant Professor

2020-09-01 — Present

University of Zurich • Zürich, Switzerland

Teaching and research in the field of Interactive Data as part of the Digital Society Initiative.

Postdoc

2019-01-01 — 2020-08-31

University of British Columbia • Vancouver, Canada

Postdoctoral research in Interactive Data Analysis.

Awards

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Hugo-Geiger Prize

2016-01-01
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Dirk-Bartz Prize

2017-01-01
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EuroVis Young Researcher Award

2021-01-01

Requirements for University of Zurich

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
IELTS
Listening
Required:6.5
Reading
Required:6.5
Writing
Required:6.5
Speaking
Required:6.5
Overall
Required:7
TOEFL
Listening
Required:25
Reading
Required:25
Writing
Required:26
Speaking
Required:25
Total
Required:100
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in Law or equivalent from a recognized university Minimum 180 ECTS credits
Application Checklist
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  • Official transcripts
  • CV/Resume
  • Copy of passport
  • Motivation letter
Specialization Notes

Department of Law