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About Mascha Kurpicz-Briki

Dr Mascha Kurpicz-Briki is Professor of Data Engineering at the Institute for Data Applications and Security IDAS at Bern University of Applied Sciences, and Deputy Head of the Applied Machine Intelligence research group. Her research focuses, among other things, on the topic of fairness and the digitalisation of social and community challenges.

Entries by Mascha Kurpicz-Briki

SmartSDM: The use of digital tools and wearables for people with severe mental illnesses

A BFH research project has investigated how digital tools and wearable devices are used by people with severe mental illness. Digital transformation and severe mental health problems People with severe mental illnesses such as psychosis or severe depression have hardly benefited from advances in digital healthcare to date. While numerous apps and online services have […]

BFH Applied Machine Intelligence at ACL 2025

The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) took place from July 27 to August 1, 2025, at the Austria Center Vienna. ACL is the world’s leading conference in the field of computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP), bringing together researchers from academia and industry to present the latest advances […]

Therapy Meets Metrics: How KPIs Make Success Visible in Blended Psychotherapy

13. May 2025/in Health Care and E-Health EN, Professional Contribution EN/by Mascha Kurpicz-Briki

In an interdisciplinary collaboration between the start-up YLAH and the Departments of Engineering and Computer Science as well as Health Science at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, KPI-based metrics in blended therapy were investigated. Context Blended Psychotherapy, the combination of digital and analog therapy elements, is gaining increasing importance. But how can the success […]

Active Sourcing Tools in Switzerland: Between Efficiency and Fairness

17. December 2024/in Augmented Intelligence EN, Focus, Interview EN, New Work EN/by Mascha Kurpicz-Briki

Large Swiss companies are increasingly relying on digital tools in recruiting – from LinkedIn Recruiter to ChatGPT. But how effective are these tools really? Caroline Straub and Mascha Kurpicz-Briki have investigated how widespread active sourcing tools are, where their strengths lie, and what role unconscious biases play in digital recruiting. You’ve researched the human-centered aspects […]

Threat, liberation and relationship – how AI is portrayed in films

2. October 2024/in Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution EN/by Mascha Kurpicz-Briki

Over the last few decades, there have been numerous films dedicated to the topic of artificial intelligence (AI). But how has it been portrayed? Our specialist, Mascha Kurpicz-Briki, describes the most common interpretations. Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a central theme in the film industry in recent decades. From early science fiction classics to modern […]

Bias in Language Models and Data Augmentation for AI in Mental Health

25. July 2024/in Augmented Intelligence EN, Event report EN/by Mascha Kurpicz-Briki

Are societal stereotypes encoded in German language models, and how can data augmentation techniques support classification task in the context of mental health? Recent results on these topics were presented at the annual SwissText conference 2024. The Applied Machine Learning group at the Bern University of Applied Sciences is involved in many innovative projects in […]