Team SIPLAB

We're an international, cross-disciplinary team, hailing from backgrounds including software engineering, electrical engineering, computer vision, machine learning, and personal informatics. If you're interested in working with us, get in touch or swing by. Our contact emails are: firstname.lastname@inf.ethz.ch.

For all general inquiries, collaborations, and requests, please email Christian at christian/holz#inf/ethz/ch.

• Christian Holz (PI)

  physical, physiological, and spatial computing.

  
  

• Fiorella Meyer

  administrative assistant. operations and logistics.

  
  

• Manuel Meier

  sensing and embedded systems. master's at ETH Zürich in ITET/EE.

  
  

• Liliana Barrios

  neurological health monitoring. co-advised with Friedemann Mattern.

  
  

• Paul Streli

  computational interaction in mixed reality. master's from Imperial College London in EE/CS.

  
  

• Max Moebus

  applied statistics for large datasets. master's from University of Oxford in Statistics.

  
  

• Bjoern Braun

  physiological computing. master's at ETH Zürich in Robotics, Systems and Control.
  

• Julia Chen

  direct doctorate at ETH CS. previously undergrad at Georgia Tech in CS.
  

• Andreas Fender

  augmented reality & virtual reality. previously at U Sussex with Sri Subramanian.

  
  

• Tiffany Luong

  affective virtual reality. previously at INRIA with Anatole Lecuyér.

  
  

• Roman Kusche

  medical devices. consulting bioengineer. researcher at Fraunhofer.

  
  

• Yi Fei Cheng

  computational virtual user interfaces. intern from Swarthmore College.
  

• Huajian Qiu

  animation in Virtual Reality. intern from EPFL.
  

• Alicia Guo

  mixed-initiative interaction. intern from MIT CSAIL. ETH summer research fellow.
  

Team alumni

• Hugo Romat (embodied pen+touch interaction). next: Research Engineer in the NUI team at Microsoft Redmond, WA.

Current thesis students

• Thomas Roberts (ETH CS M.Sc. / Imperial College London.)

• Fabio Bazzi (M.Sc. Robotics, D-MAVT, ETH RSC.)

• Robin Hänni (ETH CS B.Sc.)
• Robin Rudin (ETH CS B.Sc.)
• Rachel Schuchert (ETH CS B.Sc.)
• Jens Brunner (ETH CS B.Sc.)
• Alexander Eichhorn (ETH CS B.Sc.)

Past visitors and interns

• Eric Weber (research intern. industrial design & physical prototyping. visiting from ZHDK)
• Rayan Armani (research intern. wearable sensing for interaction in mixed reality)
• Jiaxi Jiang (learning-based signal processing. visiting from RWTH Aachen). led ECCV 2022 publication AvatarPoser, contributed to ACM CHI 2022 publication TapType.
• Mohamed Kari (semantic AR and VR. visiting from University of Duisburg-Essen & Porsche)
• Karan Ahuja (3D from 2D. visiting from CMU HCII). led ACM UIST 2021 publication TouchPose.

Past master's thesis students

• Guy Luethi (ETH CS M.Sc.)
• Huajian Qiu (EPFL Computational Science M.Sc.). contributed to ECCV 2022 publication AvatarPoser.
• André Rodrigues (Universidade Nova de Lisboa CSE M.Sc.)
• Stephanie Vogt (ETH MAVT M.Sc.). next: Development engineer at Helbling Technik AG, Zürich.
• Daniel Gstoehl (ETH CS M.Sc.). next: Engineer at Passiv Energie Japan.
• Marilou Beyeler (ETH CS M.Sc.)
• Philippe Andreu (ETH CS M.Sc.). next: Deep learning engineer at presize, Munich.
• Christian Knieling (ETH CS M.Sc.). next: Software Engineer at ESRI R&D Zürich.
• Nikola Kovacevic (ETH CS M.Sc.). next: PhD student at the Computer Graphics Lab, ETH CS.
• Danil Ivanov (ETH CS M.Sc.). next: Full stack developer at Felfel Zürich.
• Alice Mylaeus (M.Sc. Robotics, D-MAVT, ETH RSC). next: APM at Google Zürich.
• Manuel Meier (M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, D-ITET, ETH EE). next: PhD student with us.

Past undergrads and project students

• Simon Boehi (ETH CS B.Sc.)
• Michael Thomas Schlegel (ETH CS B.Sc.)
• Catherine Schmit (ETH CS B.Sc.)
• Valentin Bieri (ETH CS B.Sc.)
• Cyrill Künzi (ETH ITET M.Sc.)
• Christoph Salzer (ETH MAVT B.Sc.)
• Emanuel Pytlik (ETH ITET M.Sc.)
• Francois Pailleau (M.Sc. Robotics, D-MAVT, ETH RSC)
• Joshua Steiner (ETH CS B.Sc.)
• Thomas Fischer (ETH CS B.Sc.)
• Christian Rubin (ETH ITET M.Sc.)
• Rayan Armani (M.Sc. Robotics, D-MAVT, ETH RSC)
• Jannik Gartmann (ETH CS B.Sc.)
• Markus Pobitzer (ETH Robotics B.Sc. D-MAVT)
• Jonathan Lampérth (ETH CS B.Sc.). led to open source release SVG2Keynote.
• Boris Bernegger (ETH CS B.Sc.)
• Fabian Mächler (ETH CS B.Sc.)
• Janik Baumer (ETH MAVT M.Sc.)
• Yves Kempter (ETH CS B.Sc.)
• Guillaume Thivolet (ETH ITET M.Sc.)
• Lukas Walker (ETH CS B.Sc.)
• Tom Cinbis (ETH CS M.Sc.)
• Nicole Wenzinger (ETH CS B.Sc.)
• Clemens Bachmann (ETH CS B.Sc.)
• Chris Buob (ETH CS B.Sc.)