Pascal Andermatt

Research

Projects and publications — mostly artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing, built during my time at the University of Zurich | UZH.

RareSim

2025 – Present·Open project website

Shortening the diagnostic odyssey with intelligent phenotype-based reasoning.

Scientific Text Simplification

2023 – 2024·Open project website

Simplifying scientific abstracts for the SimpleText lab at CLEF, and explaining the complex terms a rewrite cannot remove.

News & Notable Work

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Walky. A 2016 Java simulator revived in the browser by Claude — one Dijkstra field per goal, ~2,000 pedestrians at 60fps.

SimulationTypeScriptdeck.gl
Aug 2026
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Beyond Money. Finding what's unusual in your spending — 26 anomaly detectors, LLM screening, and an agent you can chat with.

HackathonBärnHäckt 2026AI1st Place
Aug 2026
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Informfully. Open-source news platform for user studies — designed and built the landing page.

Open SourceWeb DevelopmentVitePress
Jul 2025
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Publications Widget. Embed your Zotero publication list on any website.

Open SourceVue.jsZotero
Sep 2024
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Wine Captain. Your AI-powered wine companion — never pick the wrong wine again.

HackathonBärnHäckt 2024AI3rd Place
Aug 2024
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Presentation Writer. Highlight slides with hand gestures, powered by computer vision. Made at Renuo.

Computer VisionPython
May 2024
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Multilingual Question Generation from Knowledge Graphs. Generate complex, multilingual, high-quality questions from any knowledge base.

Master ThesisNLPKnowledge GraphsGrade 5.75 / 6
Feb 2024
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Universal Turing Machine Emulator. Verify and emulate any Turing Machine encoded as a binary string.

Theory of ComputationWeb Development
Feb 2024
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Approximate Convex Hulls. Approximating convex hulls in high dimensions by sampling directions, where the exact algorithms become intractable.

ResearchAlgorithmsC++Grade 5.75 / 6
Jul 2023
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Hatey Bot. Detecting different types of hate speech with machine learning.

NLPMachine LearningGrade 6.0 / 6
Oct 2022
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KenSpace. Exploratory and complex search across unstructured documents.

Bachelor ThesisInformation RetrievalGrade 6.0 / 6
Jun 2020

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

— Steve Jobs

Previous Projects

Projects I still have a soft spot for, going back to 2014. Some have aged better than others.

Side Projects10 projects since 2018Hydranauts, a multiplayer spaceship gameBachelor ProjectsZHAW, 2017–2020Walky, a pedestrian simulatorCollege ProjectsKBW & Renuo, 2014–2017