Teaching & theses

In the spring term 2025, we are teaching the following courses:

• Mobile Health and Activity Monitoring 2025 master's course
• Adaptive User Interfaces through Machine Learning 2025 bachelor's seminar
• Egocentric Perception for Human-World Understanding 2025 master's seminar
• Reinforcement Learning for Understanding and Modeling Human Behavior 2025 master's seminar

Available student thesis projects

Please directly apply through SiROP with your CV and transcripts. Contact the listed team member(s) in case of questions or email Max Moebus for all general inquiries about bachelor's and master's theses. Email addresses are firstname.lastname@inf.ethz.ch.

• Deliberate design of Digital Avatars for Learning and Creativity

  
  • contact: Dr. Julia, Chatain, Yi-Chi Liao
  • Master Thesis

  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Vision
  • Visualization
  • Rendering
  • Interaction
  • Human Motion
  • Embodiment
  • Embodied Interaction
  • Embodied Learning

• 3D Avatar and Scene Interaction, Visualization, and Rendering

  
  • contact: Jiaxi Jiang
  • Semester Project
  • Bachelor Thesis

  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Vision
  • Visualization
  • Rendering
  • Interaction
  • Human Motion

Current thesis students

• Spyridon Garyfallidis master's ETH Robotics, D-MAVT
• Rachel Schuchert master's ETH Computer Science, D-INFK

• Liuxin Qing semester ETH Electrical Engineering, D-ITET
• Samir Sulaimanov semester ETH Electrical Engineering, D-ITET

Past master's thesis students

• Shuyue Wang (ETH Computer Science, D-INFK)
• Andela Ilic (ETH Electrical Engineering, D-ITET)
• Ying Xue (ETH Computer Science, D-INFK)
• Yao Song (UZH Computer Science)
• Lars Hauptmann (ETH Electrical Engineering, D-ITET) ➤ led to IEEE-EMBS BHI 2024 publication Nightbeat.
• Xuejing Luo (ETH Robotics, D-MAVT, RSC) ➤ led to ECCV 2024 publication MANIKIN. next: PhD student at University of Aalto.
• He Liu (UZH Data Science, UZH OEC)
• Xintong Liu (ETH Robotics, D-MAVT, RSC) ➤ led to NeurIPS 2024 publication EgoSim.
• Sebastian Reidy (ETH Electrical Engineering, D-ITET). next: Software engineer at Helbling Technik AG, Lenzburg.
• Ailin Liu (RWTH, Data Science). next: PhD student at LMU Munich.
• Adriana Mohap (UZH Data Science)
• Andreas Brombach (ETH Computer Science, D-INFK) ➤ led to ACM IMWUT 2024 publication Detecting Users' Emotional States.
• Rayan Armani (ETH Robotics, D-MAVT, RSC) ➤ led to ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 publication Ultra Inertial Poser. next: PhD student with us.
• Thomas Roberts (ETH Computer Science / Imperial College London) ➤ led to ACM CHI 2023 publication InfinitePaint.
• Guy Luethi (ETH Computer Science, D-INFK) ➤ led to ACM UIST 2022 publication DeltaPen. next: Embedded software engineer at CyOne Security AG.
• Huajian Qiu (EPFL Computational Science) ➤ led to ECCV 2022 publication AvatarPoser. next: Software engineer at Huawei.
• Stephanie Vogt (ETH Robotics, D-MAVT, RSC) ➤ led to IEEE ICRA 2024 publication MiBOT. next: Development engineer at Helbling Technik AG, Zürich.
• Daniel Gstoehl (ETH Computer Science, D-INFK). next: Engineer at Passiv Energie Japan.
• Marilou Beyeler (ETH Computer Science, D-INFK) ➤ led to ACM ICMI 2023 publication Cross-Device Shortcuts. next: Associate consultant at Netlight.
• Philippe Andreu (ETH Computer Science, D-INFK). next: Machine learning software engineer at Meta, Munich.
• Christian Knieling (ETH Computer Science, D-INFK). next: Software Engineer at ESRI R&D Zürich.
• Nikola Kovacevic (ETH Computer Science, D-INFK) ➤ led to IEEE TAffC 2023 publication Personality Trait Recognition in the Wild. next: PhD student at the Computer Graphics Lab, ETH CS.
• Danil Ivanov (ETH Computer Science, D-INFK). next: Full stack developer at Felfel Zürich.
• Alice Mylaeus (ETH Robotics, D-MAVT, RSC) ➤ led to IEEE ICRA 2024 publication MiBOT. next: APM at Google Zürich.
• Manuel Meier (ETH Electrical Engineering, D-ITET) ➤ led to IEEE VR 2021 publication TapID. next: PhD student with us.

Past bachelor's and semester thesis students

• Junxiao Cao
• Laurenz Zehetner
• Jakob Schneider
• Jan-Oliver Seidenfuss
• Chang-Jin Lee
• Zhengxu Li
• Yifei Han
• Haoyu Cen
• Philipp Braune
• Aaron Zeller
• Florian Portmann
• Sivalingam Tharmeekan
• Nicolas Steck ➤ led to ACM UIST 2024 publication SituationAdapt.
• Emanuel Mairoll
• Filippo Tognina
• Tim Eilers
• Lukas Teufelberger
• Shao Zhou
• Timo Suess
• Minxuan Qin
• Andela Ilic
• Nicolas Kopp ➤ led to IEEE-EMBS BHI 2024 publication Nightbeat.
• Philipp Trachsel
• Armin Berger
• Orestis Oikonomou
• Hyeongkyun Kim
• Yves Inglin ➤ led to ACM UIST 2024 publication SituationAdapt.
• Alexander Zank
• Filip Stanisic
• Yiming Zhao
• Oskar Pilkington
• Jaro Meyer
• Siqi Bao
• He Liu
• Shubham Kumar
• Julien Wolfensberger ➤ led to IEEE EMBC 2024 publication Unsupervised Sleep Quality Estimation.
• Lara Lenz ➤ led to IEEE TVCG 2024 publication Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Reality.
• Derek Witzig ➤ led to ACM UIST 2023 publication PressurePick.
• Danilo Dordevic
• Vukasin Bozic
• Samuel Räber
• Marc Zünd
• Janosch Jungo
• Eren Oner
• Seraina Saurenmann
• Bowen Wang
• Robin Hänni ➤ led to ACM VRST 2024 publication HistoLab VR.
• Stefano Kron
• Robin Rudin
• Rachel Schuchert
• Fabio Bazzi
• Jens Brunner
• Alexander Eichhorn
• Simon Boehi
• Michael Thomas Schlegel
• Valentin Bieri ➤ led to PMLR UAI 2023 publication BeliefPPG.
• Catherine Schmit
• Christoph Salzer
• Cyrill Künzi
• Emanuel Pytlik
• Francois Pailleau
• Joshua Steiner
• Thomas Fischer
• Christian Rubin
• Rayan Armani ➤ led to ACM CHI 2023 publication HOOV.
• Jonathan Lampérth ➤ led to led to open source release SVG2Keynote.
• Jannik Gartmann
• Markus Pobitzer
• Boris Bernegger
• Fabian Mächler
• Yves Kempter
• Janik Baumer
• Guillaume Thivolet
• Lukas Walker
• Tom Cinbis
• Nicole Wenzinger
• Chris Buob
• Clemens Bachmann

Past Courses and Seminars

• Mixed Reality 2024 (fall 2024) master's course
• Human-Computer Interaction 2024 (fall 2024) bachelor's course
• Advanced Topics in Mixed Reality 2024 (spring 2024) bachelor's seminar
• Mobile Health and Activity Monitoring 2024 (spring 2024) master's course
• Mixed Reality 2023 (fall 2023) master's course
• Human-Computer Interaction 2023 (fall 2023) bachelor's course
• Advanced Topics in Mixed Reality 2023 (spring 2023) bachelor's seminar
• Mobile Health and Activity Monitoring 2023 (spring 2023) master's course
• Human-Computer Interaction 2022 (fall 2022, co-taught with Otmar Hilliges) bachelor's course
• Mobile Health and Activity Monitoring 2022 (spring 2022) master's course
• Advanced Topics in Mixed Reality 2022 (spring 2022) bachelor's seminar
• Human-Computer Interaction 2021 (fall 2021, co-taught with Otmar Hilliges) bachelor's course
• Ubiquitous Computing 2021 (spring 2021) master's course
• Advanced Topics in Technical Human-Computer Interaction and Computational Interaction 2021 (spring 2021) bachelor's seminar
• Human-Computer Interaction 2020 (fall 2020, co-taught with Otmar Hilliges) bachelor's course
• CAS ETH: Applied Information Technology, Humans & Machines (fall 2020) CAS CAS
• Ubiquitous Computing 2020 (spring 2020) master's course
• Advanced Topics in Technical Human-Computer Interaction 2020 (spring 2020) bachelor's seminar
• Human-Computer Interaction 2019 (fall 2019, co-taught with Otmar Hilliges) bachelor's course
• CAS ETH: Applied Information Technology, Humans & Machines 2019 (fall 2019) CAS CAS