KARL DAHER

Researcher, Engineer and Project Manager

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Education

University of Fribourg

Ph.D. in Computer Science | 2017 – 2023

Lebanese International University

BS-MS in Computer and Communication Engineering | 2009 – 2014

Core Skills

Projects

Research and Development Projects - Management

  • Nutritional Survey – «OSAV» (2021 – 2023): In collaboration with the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO), developing a solution to launch parallel multilingual nutritional surveys throughout Switzerland. Investigating the latest changes in the domain of meat substitutes.
  • Co-Conception Learning Information System – Colearnis (2019 – 2022): In collaboration with HE-Arc, developed a collaborative platform for the acquisition and dissemination of corporate Know-How via interactive videos, guided by an intelligent virtual assistant.
  • Chatbot for Depression and Anxiety with passive data monitoring (2022 – 2023): In collaboration with the psychology department of the University of Fribourg, working on an application with an integrated chatbot to provide therapies for patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
  • Beat Digital Therapy Platform (2021 – 2022): In collaboration with the University of Fribourg psychology department, working on a digital therapy platform to connect therapists with their patients, providing online therapy programs and personal follow-up.
  • MonCosamo Mobile Application (2021): In collaboration with Haute école de santé fribourg (Heds-FR), developed an application to direct students towards appropriate support structures in the Fribourg canton.
  • Festineuch Mobile Application (2021): In collaboration with He-arc, developed an application for the FestiNeuch festival to run an interactive experience for their visitors.

Master Projects (Approx. 6 months full-time R&D) - Supervision

Emotion Detection and Response:

  • The effect of music and light on stress in occupational health – Andres
  • Influence of empathical machines on stress – Mathias
  • Driver states regulation through music and colored light to reduce stress – Khadija
  • Hidden emotion detection in body language – Fouad
  • Emotion detection vis micro expressions to reduce stress – Wendy

Chatbot Development:

  • Food Packaging Chatbot – Charles
  • Enhancing conversational agents with empathic abilities – Timo
  • Investigation of the effectiveness of a chatbot with emotion regulation through muscle and breath relaxation in a student population – Cécile
  • Empathic conversational agents, model evaluation, comparison, and questionnaire adaptation – Harika
  • Investigation of the effectiveness of a behavioral activation chatbot to reduce avoidance and remuneration behaviors in student population – Anouk

Innovative Web-Mobile Applications:

  • Creation of educational platform with a chatbot – Marianne & Marielle
  • Plastic food packaging data collection platform – Laurent
  • Smart agent application for post therapy care of depression and anxiety – Tatjana
  • Emotion regulation platform – Joé

Bachelor Projects (Approx. 3 months full-time R&D) - Supervision

  • The bidirectional link between chronic pain and sleep disorder – Cécile
  • Seismo Scraping, a monitoring tool for recent food safety related aritcels – Christelle
  • Micro-expressions detection system – Justin & Jean-Gérard
  • Natural language understanding (NLU) on edge – Nicolas
  • Web Platforms for architects in Thress.js – Guillaume
  • Meat substitute packagin data collection application – Joé

Internship Projects (Approx. 3 months full-time R&D) - Supervision

  • Behavioral analysis based on micro-expressions – Alain
  • Virtual Reality into Art – Chris
  • Beat platform for digital therapy – Christelle
  • Emotion recognition based on facial thermography -Joseph
  • Art and technology a gaming platform – Kevin
  • Human Resources portal platform – Melissa
  • Phoenician alphabet in Augmented Reality – Michel
  • X-sens integration in Unity – Mohamad
  • Emotion detection through micro-expressions analysis – Wendy
  • Emotion representation in dancing performances – Julie

Course Teaching

University of Fribourg

  • Co-Lecturer – Seminar of Affective Computing for Empathic Behaviour Change – Master (2018-2022)
  • Co-Lecturer – Seminar of Chatbots and Conversational Agents – Master (2020-2022)
  • Co-Lecturer – Informatics Security – Bachelor (2020-2022)

University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (Hes-so)

  • Co-Lecturer – Chatbots session in Advanced User Interfaces – Master (2020-2021)
  • Teaching Assistance – Business Intelligence – Bachelor (2018-2019)
  • Teaching Assistance – User Experience Design – Master (2018-2019)
  • Teaching Assistance – Multimodal Processing Recognition and Interaction – Master (2017-2019)

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