جست‌وجوی استاد و پژوهشگر

Olga Sorkine-Hornungمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Digital Content Creation
• Geometry Processing
• Shape Representation and Editing
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Olga Sorkine-Hornung is a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich and head of the Institute of Visual Computing. She leads the Interactive Geometry Lab, focusing on theoretical and practical advancements in digital content creation, geometry processing, and shape modeling. Current position: ETH Zurich, Department of Computer Science Previous roles: Courant Institute (NYU), Technical University of Berlin Education: BSc and PhD from Tel Aviv University, postdoc at TU Berlin Her research spans shape representation, digital fabrication, computer animation, and fundamental geometry processing. Key contributions include Laplacian surface editing, as-rigid-as-possible deformation, and generalized winding numbers. She works on applications in VR, AR, and autonomous systems. Awards include Test of Time Awards (2024), ACM Fellow (2020), ERC Consolidator Grant (2020), and EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award (2008). She has supervised numerous students and co-developed software libraries like libigl and Instant Meshes . Co-chair roles for SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, and Pacific Graphics Editorial board member for ACM Transactions on Graphics and other journals Keynote speaker at VMV, CVPR, and SIAM conferences Her work bridges mathematical rigor with practical implementation, advancing computer graphics and geometry processing through intuitive algorithms that maintain surface detail while enabling efficient computation.

Mathieu Salzmannمشاهده پروفایل

عضو هیئت علمی

• Computer Vision
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Mathieu Salzmann is a Senior Scientist and Lecturer at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), affiliated with the Computer Vision Laboratory (CVLAB) in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC). He also holds a courtesy appointment with the EPFL College of Humanities and serves as Deputy Chief Data Scientist at the Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC). He has held concurrent roles in teaching units including SIN, SODH, and SSC, reflecting his interdisciplinary engagement. His research focuses on the intersection of machine learning and computer vision, particularly in deep learning for 2D and 3D visual scene understanding, efficient and robust models, domain adaptation, and interpretable AI. These interests are evident across his extensive publication record in top-tier venues. His recent publications (2023–2024) show a consistent trend in advancing deep learning methods for visual recognition, with strong representation at CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, ICLR, and NeurIPS. Topics include domain generalization, 3D understanding, model robustness, and multimodal learning, often with applications in real-world systems. His editorial roles as Associate Editor for IEEE TPAMI and Action Editor for TMLR further highlight his leadership in the field. Area Chair: ICML 2023, CVPR 2023, ICCV 2023, NeurIPS 2023, AAAI 2024, ECCV 2024 Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) Action Editor: Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) Mathieu Salzmann has supervised numerous PhD students at EPFL, both current and past, including Bouquet Yann Yanis, Javed Saqib, Li Shuangqi, and others. He has also been involved in research grants and collaborative projects, such as his work with S. Süsstrunk and R. Baroni on comics reconfiguration. His part-time role as Senior GNC Engineer at ClearSpace (2020–2024) illustrates his applied research engagement in aerospace systems. He is actively involved in EPFL’s data science and AI research ecosystem through SDSC and multiple labs.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Deep Learning
• Computer Vision
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Lior Wolf is a Professor at the School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT's Center for Biological and Computational Learning (CBCL) under Prof. Tomaso Poggio and earned his PhD from Hebrew University of Jerusalem with Prof. Amnon Shashua. His educational background includes: PhD in Computer Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Postdoctoral Research, MIT CBCL Prof. Wolf's research centers on artificial intelligence with seminal contributions to deep learning, computer vision, and natural language processing. His work bridges theoretical foundations (e.g., attention mechanisms, transformer analysis) with practical applications in medical imaging, speech processing, and sign language technology. He pioneered methods for neural network interpretability, efficient sequence modeling, and multimodal fusion. Analysis of his 2023-2025 publications reveals dominant trends in large language model optimization (neuron pruning, attention analysis), efficient video generation, and cross-modal learning. His work increasingly integrates medical applications (fMRI/EEG analysis) while maintaining theoretical rigor in model architecture design. His scientific achievements include: Best paper award at EMNLP 2024 for 'Backward Lens: Projecting Language Model Gradients into the Vocabulary Space' Best paper award at SCIA 2023 for 'Gradient Adjusting Networks for Domain Inversion' Best paper award at FG 2021 for 'Generating Master Faces for Dictionary Attacks' Prof. Wolf mentors graduate students in the School of Computer Science and leads research at the ICRC building laboratory. His team collaborates with 'the friends of TAU' on projects spanning biometric security, medical imaging, and generative AI. Current work focuses on efficient transformers, neural network interpretability, and multimodal medical diagnostics.

• Distributed Computing
• Wireless Networks
• Distributed Systems
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Prof. Roger Wattenhofer is a Full Professor at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and Deputy head of the Computer Engineering and Networks Lab. He holds a doctorate in Computer Science from ETH Zurich (1998) and has held positions at Brown University and Microsoft Research before returning to ETH. His research focuses on distributed computing, wireless networks, and algorithmic systems design, with contributions to Byzantine agreement protocols, blockchain technologies, and neural network architectures. He teaches courses such as Distributed Systems and Computational Thinking. Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science (ETH Zurich, 1998). Research interests include distributed systems, network algorithms, and the intersection of machine learning with distributed computing. His work spans both theoretical foundations and practical implementations, addressing challenges in fault tolerance, consensus mechanisms, and algorithmic efficiency. Recent publications explore topics like adversarial robustness in voting systems, privacy in reinforcement learning, and generative music models. He actively contributes to open-source frameworks and benchmarks for neural algorithmic reasoning.

Andrea Cavallaroمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Vision
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Andrea Cavallaro is a Full Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Director of the Idiap Research Institute. He holds dual appointments in the School of Engineering (STI) within the Institute of Electrical Engineering and Measurements (IEM) and the School of Engineering's Education Unit (SEL-ENS). His research focuses on machine learning for multimodal perception, privacy-preserving AI, and autonomous systems. Cavallaro earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from EPFL in 2002 and has held leadership roles including Director of Research at Queen Mary University of London and Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. Education: PhD in Electrical Engineering (EPFL, 2002) Leadership: Idiap Director, Affiliate at ELLIS Society Editorial Roles: Editor-in-Chief of Signal Processing: Image Communication (2020–2023), Senior Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Research Interests: Machine learning for audio-visual sensing, privacy in AI, autonomous systems perception, and ethical AI frameworks. Key projects include AlignAI (trustworthy AI alignment) and CORSMAL (multimodal object manipulation). Recent articles explore privacy-aware AI models, adversarial attacks, and multimodal perception systems. His work bridges theoretical advancements with practical applications in robotics, healthcare, and education. Awards include the Royal Academy of Engineering Teaching Prize and IAPR Fellowship. Teaching: Leads courses on deep learning ethics and multimodal AI at EPFL. Advising: Supervises 11 PhD students in areas like privacy-preserving algorithms and autonomous systems. Labs/Teams: Coordinates Idiap’s Audiovisual Intelligence and Learning Lab (LIDIAP) and collaborates on projects like GraphNEx (explainable AI via graph neural networks).

• Computer Vision
• Egocentric Vision
• Machine Learning
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Dima Damen is a Professor of Computer Vision at the School of Computer Science, University of Bristol, where she leads the Machine Learning and Computer Vision Group. She also serves as a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. As an EPSRC Early Career Fellow (2020-2025) and a Fellow of ELLIS for Europe, her research focuses on advancing computer vision, particularly in egocentric (first-person) vision, video understanding, and action recognition. Her educational background and professional journey have positioned her as a leader in the field of computer vision, with a particular emphasis on understanding human activities from wearable cameras. She has received numerous awards including Best Paper at ACCV 2024 and Outstanding Paper at ICASSP 2021. Professor Damen's research interests span multiple areas of computer vision and machine learning. She specializes in egocentric vision, where she has made significant contributions to understanding human activities from first-person perspectives. Her work explores video understanding, action recognition, hand-object interactions, and the development of vision-language models that can interpret and generate instructions from visual data. She has pioneered approaches to unique video captioning, long video understanding through active memory representations, and spatial reasoning from egocentric videos. Her research often bridges the gap between theoretical computer vision and practical applications in human-centered AI. Her recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on egocentric vision, with papers like "AMEGO: Active Memory from long EGOcentric videos" (ECCV 2024) and "HOI-Ref: Hand-Object Interaction Referral in Egocentric Vision" (2024) advancing the state of the art in understanding long-form first-person videos. She has also contributed to vision-language models with works like "ShowHowTo: Generating Scene-Conditioned Step-by-Step Visual Instructions" (CVPR 2025) and "It's Just Another Day: Unique Video Captioning by Discriminitave Prompting" (ACCV 2024, Best Paper). Her research shows a consistent trajectory toward building systems that can understand human activities in natural environments with human-like capabilities. Professor Damen has received significant recognition for her work, including: EPSRC Early Career Fellow (2020-2025) ELLIS Fellow for Europe (Nov 2024) Best Paper at ACCV 2024 Outstanding Paper at ICASSP 2021 (awarded to only 3 out of 1700 papers) Outstanding Reviewer for CVPR 2020 and 2021 Program Chair for ICCV 2021 She has successfully advised numerous PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, many of whom have gone on to prestigious positions in academia and industry. Her group has secured significant research funding including the EPSRC Programme Grant Visual AI and the EPSRC UMPIRE grant. She actively collaborates with industry partners including Google DeepMind, Adobe, and Meta, ensuring her research has practical impact. Professor Damen leads the Machine Learning and Computer Vision Group at the University of Bristol, which focuses on egocentric vision, video understanding, and the development of vision-language models. The group has created influential datasets like EPIC-KITCHENS, which has become a standard benchmark in egocentric vision research. Her team regularly participates in and organizes workshops at major computer vision conferences including CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV.

Kyojin Chooمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Charge-domain circuits
• Sensor interfaces
• Energy converters
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Kyojin Choo is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in the School of Engineering , affiliated with the Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits Lab (MSIC-LAB). He also holds teaching roles in Microengineering and Electrical and Electronics Engineering at EPFL. B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University (2007, 2009) Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan (2018) His research focuses on charge-domain analog/mixed-signal circuits , low-power sensor interfaces , and compact ADCs for IoT, wearables, and millimeter-scale systems. He has pioneered charge-injection cell techniques for energy-efficient circuits in energy management, sensor front-ends, and communication. His work emphasizes reducing power consumption to nanowatt levels while enabling ultra-compact designs. His recent publications highlight advancements in compact SAR ADCs , low-power MEMS accelerometers , millimeter-scale imaging systems , and ultra-low-power timing generators . His research integrates charge-domain circuit design with sensor interface optimization , energy harvesting , and high-speed link architectures . He holds over 20 US patents and has taught courses in Microengineering and Electrical Engineering at EPFL. His group (MSIC-LAB) addresses challenges in battery-free sensor design, power-constrained system scaling, and commercialization of wearables with unconventional form factors.

• Neuromorphic Engineering
• Neural Networks
• Edge Computing
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Shih-Chii Liu holds the rank of Privatdozent (Associate Professor) in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zürich. He is affiliated with the Institute of Neuroinformatics , a joint institute between the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. His research focuses on neuromorphic engineering, bio-inspired neural hardware, and edge computing systems, emphasizing energy-efficient algorithms and sensor technologies. Key research areas include neuromorphic sensors for real-time data processing, sparsity-aware neural networks, and adaptive computing architectures for edge devices. His work spans applications such as speech enhancement, wearable health monitoring, and bio-inspired keyword spotting systems. He leads the Sensors Research Group, which develops neuromorphic systems integrating novel sensors, spiking neural networks, and low-power hardware accelerators. Recent projects include the DeltaKWS low-power keyword spotting IC, EFLOP computational cost metrics for spiking networks, and NeuroBench benchmarking frameworks for neuromorphic systems. His contributions emphasize bridging biological neural principles with practical engineering solutions for IoT and embedded systems. Liu teaches courses such as Neuromorphic Engineering I and collaborates on cross-disciplinary projects involving neuroprosthetics, smart wearables, and multimodal sensor fusion. His work is characterized by hardware-software co-design approaches to tackle challenges in real-time, low-latency, and energy-constrained computing environments.

Sarah Eblingمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Computational Linguistics
• Assistive Technologies
• Sign Language Technologies
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Sarah Ebling is a Full Professor of Language, Technology and Accessibility at the University of Zurich's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She leads the Language, Technology and Accessibility research group within the Institute for Computational Linguistics. Her work focuses on computational linguistics applications for assistive technologies targeting disabilities such as hearing impairments, visual impairments, and cognitive disorders. Key areas include sign language technologies, automatic text simplification, and audio description systems. She directs the large-scale Swiss innovation project 'Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies' (2022-2026, CHF12 million budget) and collaborates on EU H2020 and SNSF Sinergia projects. Education: Holds a doctoral degree (summa cum laude, 2016) from the University of Zurich with research on automatic translation to Swiss German Sign Language. Completed studies in German Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, and English Linguistics at Universities of Zurich and Heidelberg, with research stays in Dublin, Chicago, and Rochester. Research emphasizes multimodal accessibility solutions, including sign language fluency assessment, gesture-based interaction, and AI-driven text adaptation. Current projects explore audio description translation systems (SwissADT), sign language corpus development (SwissSLi), and digital tools for comprehensibility assessment in simplified texts. Her work bridges computational linguistics with ethical considerations in assistive technology deployment. Grants and Leadership: Principal Investigator on major accessibility-focused grants, including the CHF12M Swiss innovation project. Supervises PhD candidates in areas like sign language assessment tools and text simplification algorithms. Active in international collaborations, publishing extensively in computational linguistics and accessibility journals/conferences. Technology Development: Created the 'DigiSpon' benchmark for language sample analysis and developed open-source tools for sign language translation baselines. Her team's innovations include the SignCLIP model connecting text and sign language via contrastive learning, and pose estimation frameworks for sign language recognition.

Annette Riosمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

• Machine Translation
• Text Simplification
• Multimodal Processing
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Annette Rios is a Researcher at the University of Zurich within the Language, Technology and Accessibility group. Her work focuses on machine translation , text simplification , and sign language translation , particularly for multilingual and indigenous language contexts. Research highlights include contributions to the European EASIER project on sign language translation, the ZurichNLP consortium, and the development of tools for emotion detection and gender bias reduction in NLP systems. She has published extensively in top-tier venues like ACL and WMT, with a focus on multimodal translation and German language processing . Developed emotion_detection GitHub repository for German emotion analysis Contributed to ContraPro and ContraWSD projects on translation evaluation Created datasets for German text simplification and emotion detection Her publications reveal a strong emphasis on machine translation (7/15 recent works), sign language technology (3/15), and text simplification (2/15). While no formal advising is documented in the provided text, she has mentored GitHub contributors to her repositories. Current research directions include improving multimodal translation systems and expanding emotion detection capabilities beyond English.

Sophie Schwartzمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Sleep Neuroscience
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Neuroimaging (fMRI, hd-EEG, MEG)
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Prof. Sophie Schwartz is a leading neuroscientist at the University of Geneva , where she heads the Sleep & Cognition Lab within the Faculty of Medicine . Her research integrates neuroimaging (fMRI, hd-EEG, MEG) , behavioral testing , and computational modeling to unravel the neural mechanisms underlying memory consolidation , emotion processing , and dreaming during sleep, while also developing clinical interventions to enhance sleep in neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Volker Dellwoمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Phonetics
• Speech Recognition
• Computational Linguistics
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Prof. Dr. Volker Dellwo is an Associate Professor of Phonetics and head of the Department of Computational Linguistics. His research focuses on phonetics, speech recognition, computational linguistics, and dialectology, with applications in forensic analysis, voice biometrics, and multimodal emotion recognition. Academic Rank: Associate Professor Department: Computational Linguistics His work explores phonetic convergence , speaker discrimination, and the role of prosodic features in voice recognition. Recent studies analyze whispered speech processing, cross-dialect accommodation, and neural mechanisms of speaker identity encoding. Key article trends include self-supervised learning for speech recognition , multimodal emotion detection , and forensic voice analysis . Subfields span acoustic variability, temporal envelope dynamics, and voice quality metrics. Publications emphasize computational phonetics , cross-linguistic studies , and neural network applications in speaker identification. Research also addresses challenges in forensic audio analysis and synthetic speech dataset generation.

Paolo Prandoniمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس

• Signal Processing
• Audio Processing
• Image Processing
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Paolo Prandoni is a Lecturer at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC). He serves as a Scientist in the Audiovisual Communications Laboratory (LCAV) and teaches in the SSC-ENS and SIN-ENS units, focusing on signal processing theory and practical applications in audiovisual communications. He earned his PhD from EPFL after completing all prior education there, driven by childhood fascination with long-distance telephony. His doctoral work established foundations in communication systems that continue to inform his research. Prandoni's research spans audio/image processing, machine learning for media analysis, and DSP education. Key areas include computational photography (e.g., spectral imaging, stained glass rendering), speech quality assessment via transfer learning, music information retrieval (e.g., fingering prediction), and audience analytics through his company Quividi. His work consistently bridges theoretical signal processing with real-world implementation. Recent publications reveal a strategic shift toward machine learning integration in signal processing tasks, particularly non-intrusive speech assessment and lensless imaging reconstruction. Simultaneously, he advances DSP pedagogy through MOOC development and hands-on teaching tools using off-the-shelf hardware, emphasizing accessibility and practical skill development. No scientific awards are documented in the provided materials. He has advised PhD student Thanikachalam Niranjan (thesis: Image Based Relighting of Cultural Artifacts , 2016) and teaches Communication Systems and Computer Science courses. His educational impact extends through the open-access textbook Signal Processing for Communications (2008) and tools like MultiPub for maintainable online classes. Industry engagement includes Quividi co-founding (2006) and ongoing CSO role in attention analytics. As a core LCAV laboratory member, he collaborates on interdisciplinary projects including cultural heritage digitization, embedded signal processing systems, and real-time audience measurement, leveraging EPFL's infrastructure for both academic and commercial applications.

Elisa Pellegrinoمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر ارشد

• Phonetics
• Computational Linguistics
• Prosody
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Dr. Elisa Pellegrino is a senior Post-Doc in Phonetics at the Department of Computational Linguistics , affiliated with Zeppelin University and the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich . Her research focuses on voice individualization, vocal accommodation, and the role of speaker-specific information in speech temporal variability. Role: Senior Post-Doc in Phonetics University: Zeppelin University School: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Department: Department of Computational Linguistics Email: elisa.pellegrino@uzh.ch Research Interests: Prosody and speech rhythm in native and second language acquisition Vocal accommodation in cross-dialectal interactions Speaker individuality and forensic phonetics Age-related speech temporal variability Speech disorders and Parkinson’s disease Applications of speech technology in linguistics and education

Petr Motlicekمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس

• Speech Processing
• Audio Coding
• Signal Processing
• +۱ مورد دیگر

Petr Motlicek is a Lecturer at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the Institute of Electrical Engineering. His research focuses on speech and audio processing technologies. At the Laboratoire de l'IDIAP, he conducts interdisciplinary work bridging engineering and cognitive science. His primary research interests include digital speech coding algorithms and auditory perception models. His work examines how signal processing techniques can integrate knowledge about sound production and human auditory perception. Dr. Motlicek has supervised multiple PhD students including Kumar Shashi, Dey Subhadeep, He Weipeng, and Zuluaga Gomez Juan Pablo. He teaches the course Digital Speech and Audio Coding which covers state-of-the-art techniques in the field.