AI and Cyber Defence: Threats, mitigations, automation and monitoring

AI and Cyber Defence: Threats, mitigations, automation and monitoring

Workshop Details

March 25, 2026 • 09:00-12:10
Fribourg
Around 20 participants
English

Practical Information

Equipment Needed

No specific equipment required.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites.

About this Workshop

Cyber Defence Campus (armasuisse S&T) conducts various projects, in collaboration with Universities and Universities of Applied Sciences in Switzerland, in the domain of AI. Acting as a hub between the DDPS , Industry and Research Institutions its main goal facilitating the collaboration, knowledge and talent transfer between those parties. The goal of this workshop is to showcase the most prominent research results related to the AI and Cyber Defence.

Workshop Program

09:0009:05

Raphael Meier, Ljiljana Dolamic, CYD Campus

Welcome

09:0509:25

Julian Jang-Jaccard, CYD Campus

Leveraging AI for strategic technology monitoring in the defense sector

09:2509:50

Abraham Rubinstein, HEIG-VD, Etienne Voutaz, CYD Campus

Ground truth from the sky: multi-agent OSINT pipelines for event verification

09:5010:15

Mathias Graf, FHNW, Raphael Meier, CYD Campus

Benchmark for data drift and model decay

10:1510:30

Coffee break

10:3011:00

Flavio Gottschalk, ETHZ, Damian Pfammatter, CYD Campus

Augmenting static taint analysis with LLM-assisted bug triage

11:0011:30

Daniel Lopez Gala, ETHZ, Daniel Dorigatti, CYD Campus

Towards automated red teaming

11:3011:55

Andrei Popescu-Belis, HEIG-VD, Ljiljana Dolamic, CYD Campus

Design and evaluation of a coding assistant for private codebases using retrieval-augmented generation

11:5512:00

Ljiljana Dolamic, Raphael Meier, CYD Campus

Closing

Speakers & Organizers

Dr. Raphael Meier

Scientific Project Manager

CYD Campus, armasuisse W&T

Raphael Meier is a Scientific Project Manager at armasuisse S+T and the Cyber-Defence Campus. In his role, Raphael conducts scientific research at the intersection of machine learning and cyber influence activities. Furthermore, he supports clients from the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS) in projects involving data science and cyber defence. Raphael Meier has a background in biomedical engineering and informatics. He holds a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering (2013) and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering (2017) from the University of Bern, where he specialized in machine learning for the analysis of medical imaging data.

Dr. Ljiljana Dolamic

Scientific Project Manager

CYD Campus, armasuisse W&T

Ljiljana Dolamic is a Scientific Project Manager at armasuisse S&T, Cyber Defence Campus. Hers research interests are in Computational Linguistics, Multilingual and Cross lingual Information Retrieval, Machine Translation and Language Modelling. After finalising PhD at the University of Neuchâtel, Ljiljana worked as NLP expert at Health on the Net, developing public health domain specific search engine. She than collaborated on the corpus linguistics project “SERMO” at UniNE to finally join the CYD in 2019.