Olga Fink is an assistant professor leading the Laboratory of Intelligent Maintenance and Operations Systems at EPFL since March 2022. Her research focuses on advancing intelligent maintenance and operations of complex infrastructure and industrial assets through the development of Physics-Informed Machine Learning, Graph Neural Networks, Domain Adaptation, Self-Supervised Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning, and Multi-Agent Systems. Previously, she was an assistant professor at ETH Zurich from 2018 to 2022, where she was awarded the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Professorship Grant. From 2014 to 2018, she led the “Smart Maintenance” group at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). Olga holds a Ph.D. from ETH Zurich and a Diploma in Industrial Engineering from Hamburg University of Technology. She serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals, including Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Reliability Engineering and System Safety and IEEE Internet of Things.
Olga has received numerous awards and honors including being named one of Switzerland’s ‘Top 100 Women in Business’ in 2018, recognition as a Young Scientist by the World Economic Forum and World Laureate Forum, and being named a Fellow of the Prognostics and Health Management Society in 2023.