The Advanced Learning and Research Institute (ALaRI) was a research and education institute of Università della Svizzera italiana, in Lugano, Switzerland. The institute focused on cyber-physical and embedded systems and offered international master programs.
ALaRI was established in 1999 at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano, to promote research and education in embedded systems and, later, it was incorporated into the Faculty of Informatics of the same university. In 2021, ALaRI has merged with the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence and it was transformed into the Graph Machine Learning Group (GMLG).
Over the years, the institute graduated more than 200 students from all around the world and affiliated researchers published more than 350 scientific papers.
ALaRI offered two main educational programs: the 2-year "Master of Science in Cyber-Physical and Embedded Systems" and the post-graduate 1-year "Master of Advanced Studies in Embedded Systems Design". The faculty was selected to be outstanding and strongly active at the international level where it contributed to major breakthroughs in both basic and applied research.