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 from 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 from ETH Zürich in Robotics, Systems and Control.
  

• Berken Utku Demirel

  physiological signal processing. previously at UC Irvine.
  

• Jiaxi Jiang

  full-body motion estimation. master's from RWTH Aachen.

  
  

• Andy Kong

  ultra-wearable sensing. previously undergrad at CMU HCII.
  

• Juliete Rossie

  brain-computer interfaces in VR. research intern from Ecole Polytechnique.
  

• Andreas Fender

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

  
  

• Tiffany Luong

  affective virtual reality. previously at INRIA with Anatole Lecuyér.

  
  

• Shkurta Gashi

  mobile health monitoring. ETH AI Center fellow. previously at U Svizzera Italiana with Silvia Santini.
  

• Christoph Gebhardt

  adaptive systems. previously at Tinamu Labs.

  
  

Team alumni

• Roman Kusche (medical sensing principles). next: professor at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg).
• Hugo Romat (embodied pen+touch interaction). next: Research Engineer in the NUI team at Microsoft Redmond, WA.

Current thesis students

• Xintong Liu (ETH Robotics M.Sc., D-MAVT, RSC)
• Sebastian Reidy (ETH Electrical Engineering M.Sc., D-ITET)
• Adriana Mohap (UZH, Data Science, M.Sc.)
• Ailin Liu (RWTH, Data Science, M.Sc.)
• Andreas Brombach (ETH Computer Science M.Sc., D-INFK)

• Orestis Oikonomou (UZH Data Science M.Sc., UZH OEC)
• Hyeongkyun Kim (UZH Data Science M.Sc., UZH OEC)
• Filip Stanisic (ETH Electrical Engineering M.Sc., D-ITET)
• Oskar Pilkington (ETH Electrical Engineering M.Sc., D-ITET)
• Yiming Zhao (ETH Electrical Engineering M.Sc., D-ITET)
• Siqi Bao (UZH Data Science M.Sc., UZH OEC)
• He Liu (UZH Data Science M.Sc., UZH OEC)

• Armin Berger (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Yves Inglin (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Jaro Meyer (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)

Past visitors and interns

• Huajian Qiu (research intern. animation in Virtual Reality. visiting from EPFL)
• Yi Fei Cheng (research intern. computational virtual user interfaces. visiting from Swarthmore College). led IEEE ISMAR 2022 publication ComforTable User Interfaces, contributed to ACM CHI 2023 publication HOOV. next: Ph.D. student at CMU HCII.
• Julia Chen (direct doctorate at ETH CS). next: PhD student at the Computer Vision Lab, ETH CS.
• Alicia Guo (research intern. mixed-initiative interaction. visiting from MIT CSAIL)
• Eric Weber (student research assistant. industrial design & physical prototyping. visiting from ZHDK)
• Rayan Armani (student research assistant. wearable sensing for interaction in mixed reality). contributed to ACM CHI 2023 publication HOOV
• Jiaxi Jiang (research intern. learning-based signal processing). led ECCV 2022 publication AvatarPoser, contributed to ACM CHI 2022 publication TapType. next: Ph.D. student with us.
• Mohamed Kari (semantic AR and VR. visiting from University of Duisburg-Essen & Porsche). led ACM CHI 2023 publication HandyCast
• Karan Ahuja (3D from 2D. visiting from CMU HCII). led ACM UIST 2021 publication TouchPose

Past master's thesis students

• Rayan Armani (ETH Robotics M.Sc., D-MAVT, RSC)
• Thomas Roberts (ETH Computer Science M.Sc. / Imperial College London) ➤ led to ACM CHI 2023 publication InfinitePaint.
• Guy Luethi (ETH Computer Science M.Sc., D-INFK) ➤ led to ACM UIST 2022 publication DeltaPen.
• Huajian Qiu (EPFL Computational Science M.Sc.) ➤ contributed to ECCV 2022 publication AvatarPoser.
• Stephanie Vogt (ETH Robotics M.Sc., D-MAVT, RSC). next: Development engineer at Helbling Technik AG, Zürich.
• Daniel Gstoehl (ETH Computer Science M.Sc., D-INFK). next: Engineer at Passiv Energie Japan.
• Marilou Beyeler (ETH Computer Science M.Sc., D-INFK)
• Philippe Andreu (ETH Computer Science M.Sc., D-INFK). next: Deep learning engineer at presize, Munich.
• Christian Knieling (ETH Computer Science M.Sc., D-INFK). next: Software Engineer at ESRI R&D Zürich.
• Nikola Kovacevic (ETH Computer Science M.Sc., D-INFK) ➤ led to IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 2023 publication Personality Trait Recognition in the Wild. next: PhD student at the Computer Graphics Lab, ETH CS.
• Danil Ivanov (ETH Computer Science M.Sc., D-INFK). next: Full stack developer at Felfel Zürich.
• Alice Mylaeus (ETH Robotics M.Sc., D-MAVT, RSC). next: APM at Google Zürich.
• Manuel Meier (ETH Electrical Engineering M.Sc., D-ITET) ➤ led to IEEE VR 2021 publication TapID. next: PhD student with us.

Past undergrads and project students

• Shubham Kumar (ETH Computer Science M.Sc., D-INFK)
• Danilo Dordevic (ETH Electrical Engineering M.Sc., D-ITET)
• Vukasin Bozic (ETH Electrical Engineering M.Sc., D-ITET)
• Samuel Räber (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Julien Wolfensberger (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Lara Lenz (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Derek Witzig (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Marc Zünd (ETH Mechanical Engineering M.Sc., D-MAVT)
• Janosch Jungo (ETH Electrical Engineering M.Sc., D-ITET)
• Eren Oner (ETH Electrical Engineering M.Sc., D-ITET)
• Seraina Saurenmann (ETH Robotics M.Sc., D-MAVT, RSC)
• Bowen Wang (ETH Electrical Engineering M.Sc., D-ITET)
• Robin Hänni (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Stefano Kron (ETH Biomedical Engineering M.Sc., D-ITET)
• Robin Rudin (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Rachel Schuchert (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Fabio Bazzi (ETH Robotics M.Sc., D-MAVT, RSC)
• Jens Brunner (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Alexander Eichhorn (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Simon Boehi (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Michael Thomas Schlegel (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Catherine Schmit (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Valentin Bieri (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Cyrill Künzi (ETH Electrical Engineering M.Sc., D-ITET)
• Christoph Salzer (ETH Mechanical Engineering B.Sc., D-MAVT)
• Emanuel Pytlik (ETH Electrical Engineering M.Sc., D-ITET)
• Francois Pailleau (ETH Robotics M.Sc., D-MAVT, RSC)
• Joshua Steiner (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Thomas Fischer (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Christian Rubin (ETH Electrical Engineering M.Sc., D-ITET)
• Rayan Armani (ETH Robotics M.Sc., D-MAVT, RSC)
• Jannik Gartmann (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Markus Pobitzer (ETH Robotics B.Sc., D-MAVT, RSC)
• Jonathan Lampérth (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK) ➤ led to open source release SVG2Keynote.
• Boris Bernegger (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Fabian Mächler (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Janik Baumer (ETH MechE M.Sc., D-MAVT)
• Yves Kempter (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Guillaume Thivolet (ETH Electrical Engineering M.Sc., D-ITET)
• Lukas Walker (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Tom Cinbis (ETH Computer Science M.Sc., D-INFK)
• Nicole Wenzinger (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Clemens Bachmann (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)
• Chris Buob (ETH Computer Science B.Sc., D-INFK)