Michal Piovarci

Michal Piovarci is a Researcher (Postdoc) at ETH Zurich's Computational Design Lab led by Bernd Bickel. He holds a Ph.D. from USI Lugano (2020) under Piotr Didyk, receiving the Eurographics PhD Award for his thesis on Perception-Aware Computational Fabrication. His research focuses on computer graphics, computational fabrication, and haptic/appearance reproduction, emphasizing perception-driven solutions.

Education:

• Ph.D., USI Lugano (2020)
• Previous postdoc at ISTA's Visual Computing Group

Research interests include

• 3D Printing Innovations
• Haptic Feedback Systems
• Material Perception Modeling
• Directional Surface Design

Professional Activities: Area chair at ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (2024), program committee roles at SIGGRAPH, SAP, and Eurographics. Organized Computational Fabrication Seminars (2021-2022).

Grants: SNSF Project Funding (CHF 1M, 2025-2029) and FWF Lise Meitner Grant (2022-2023).

Teaching: Taught

• Scientific Machine Learning for Design (ETH Zurich, 2024)
• Computational Fabrication (TU Wien, 2022)