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Hugues Abriel,MD PhD, is a biologist (ETH Zurich, 1989) and physician (University of Lausanne, 1994). He completed his PhD in medicine and life sciences (specializing in medical physiology) at the University of Lausanne in 1995. Since 2009, Hugues Abriel has been a Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of Bern. He is since 2022 one of the members (vice-rector for research and innovation)of the executive board of the University of Bern. Hugues Abriel is particularly interested in the molecular and genetic aspects of medicine. He has been in close contact with young doctors and researchers from French-speaking African universities for several years. He has just finished an academic sabbatical spent at the Universities of Kinshasa (the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Fez (Morocco).

David Ginsbourger is heading the Uncertainty Quantification and Spatial Statistics Group and serving as Director of Studies in Statistics at the University of Bern, where I he is co-directing the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science. At the University of Bern, he is also a member of the Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medecine, and the Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases. On the editorial side, he is serving as Associate Editor of SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification, Technometrics, and regularly as Area Chair / Meta-Reviewer for major Machine Learning conferences (e.g., ICML 2023, AISTATS 2024).

Guillaume Obozinski is Deputy Executive Director and Chief Data Scientist at the Swiss Data Science Center. He graduated with a PhD in Statistics from UC Berkeley in 2009. He did his postdoc and held until 2012 a researcher position in the Willow and Sierra teams at INRIA and Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He was then Research Faculty at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech until 2018.