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.

Designing Digital Avatars for Learning and Creativity

We will explore the design space of avatars in Virtual Reality to support learning and creativity. The project will leverage the concept of "embodied cognition", a set of theories that imply that our bodies and their interaction with the environment can impact how we learn. We will develop a Unity3D-based VR environment for embodied learning that can be deployed on everyday VR headsets.
- contact: Dr. Julia, Chatain, Yi-Chi Liao
- Semester Project
- Master Thesis
- Computer Graphics
- Computer Vision
- Visualization
- Rendering
- Interaction
- Human Motion
- Embodiment
- Embodied Interaction
- Embodied Learning
Reinforcement Learning-based 3D Human Motion Tracking for Mixed Reality

The goal of this project is to design an RL-based method for full-body human motion tracking.
Note: Applicants should have basic experience with Reinforcement Learning and deep learning frameworks (e.g., Pytorch).
- contact: Jiaxi Jiang
- Semester Project
- Bachelor Thesis
- Master Thesis
- Reinforcement Learning
- Computer Vision
- Deep Learning
- Human Motion Tracking
- Robotics

Current thesis students

Philipp Trachsel master's ETH Computer Science, D-INFK
Jan-Oliver Seidenfuss master's ETH Electrical Engineering, D-ITET
Shivangi Tanwar master's UZH Computer Science
Spyridon Garyfallidis master's ETH Robotics, D-MAVT
Rachel Schuchert master's ETH Computer Science, D-INFK
Shuyue Wang master's ETH Computer Science, D-INFK

Jingjing Qiu semester ETH Electrical Engineering, D-ITET
Liuxin Qing semester ETH Electrical Engineering, D-ITET

Past master's thesis students

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 JBHI 2025 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). 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

Samir Sulaimanov
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
Emanuel Mairoll
Filippo Tognina
Tim Eilers
Nicolas Steck ➤ led to ACM UIST 2024 publication SituationAdapt.
Lukas Teufelberger
Shao Zhou
Timo Suess
Minxuan Qin
Andela Ilic
Philipp Trachsel
Armin Berger
Orestis Oikonomou
Nicolas Kopp ➤ led to IEEE JBHI 2025 publication Nightbeat.
Yves Inglin ➤ led to ACM UIST 2024 publication SituationAdapt.
Hyeongkyun Kim
Alexander Zank
Filip Stanisic
Yiming Zhao
Oskar Pilkington
Jaro Meyer
Siqi Bao
He Liu
Shubham Kumar
Danilo Dordevic
Vukasin Bozic
Samuel Räber
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.
Marc Zünd
Janosch Jungo
Eren Oner
Seraina Saurenmann
Robin Hänni ➤ led to ACM VRST 2024 publication HistoLab VR.
Bowen Wang
Stefano Kron
Robin Rudin
Rachel Schuchert
Fabio Bazzi
Jens Brunner
Alexander Eichhorn
Simon Boehi
Valentin Bieri ➤ led to PMLR UAI 2023 publication BeliefPPG.
Michael Thomas Schlegel
Catherine Schmit
Christoph Salzer
Cyrill Künzi
Emanuel Pytlik
Francois Pailleau
Joshua Steiner
Thomas Fischer
Rayan Armani ➤ led to ACM CHI 2023 publication HOOV.
Jonathan Lampérth ➤ led to led to open source release SVG2Keynote.
Christian Rubin
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