Team SIPLAB

We're an international, cross-disciplinary team, hailing from backgrounds including software engineering, electrical engineering, computer vision, machine learning, and personal informatics.

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

If you're interested in working with us, get in touch or swing by. Our contact emails are: firstname.lastname@inf.ethz.ch

• Christian Holz

  physical computing. team lead.
  
• Fiorella Meyer

  administrative assistant. operations and logistics.
  
• Manuel Meier

  sensing and embedded systems. master's with Lothar Thiele at ETH ITET/EE.
  
• Liliana Barrios

  neurological health monitoring. co-advised with Friedemann Mattern.
  
• Hugo Romat

  embodied pen+touch interaction. previously at INRIA with Caroline Appert.
  
• Paul Streli

  data-driven methods. master's from Imperial College London.
  
• Julia Chen

  direct doctorate at ETH CS. previously undergrad at Georgia Tech.
  
• Andreas Fender

  augmented reality & virtual reality. previously at Aarhus with Jörg Müller.
  
• Roman Kusche

  medical devices. consulting bioengineer. researcher at Fraunhofer.
  

Current thesis students

• Stephanie Vogt (on-body actuation for pain management, ETH MAVT M.Sc. Co-advised with Mirko Meboldt).
• André Rodrigues (cross-device interaction toolkit, Universidade Nova de Lisboa CSE M.Sc. External master's thesis).
• Christian Knieling (high-fidelity avatar interactions in VR, ETH CS M.Sc. Co-advised with Olga Sorkine-Hornung).
• Nikola Kovacevic (detecting personality traits on mobile devices, ETH CS M.Sc. Co-advised with Markus Gross).
• Tom Cinbis (modeling heat dissipation in urban environments, ETH CS M.Sc.).
• Danil Ivanov (VR interactions through avatars, ETH CS M.Sc.).
• Philippe Andreu (unobtrusive under-skin sensing, ETH CS M.Sc.).

• Fabian Mächtler (Mobile cognitive fatigability assessment, ETH CS B.Sc.).
• Lukas Walker (first-person interaction with machinery in AR, ETH CS B.Sc. Co-advised with Andreas Kunz).

Past master's students and visitors

• Alice Mylaeus (pain alleviation using on-body robotics, M.Sc. Robotics, D-MAVT, ETH RSC). next: APM at Google.
• Karan Ahuja (3D from 2D, visiting from CMU HCII).
• Manuel Meier (vital tracking in extreme situations, M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, D-ITET, ETH EE). next: PhD student with us.

Past undergrad students

• Nicole Wenzinger (posture monitoring using wearable devices, ETH CS B.Sc.).
• Clemens Bachmann (ink-based interaction, ETH CS B.Sc.).
• Chris Buob (audio and motion synchronization, ETH CS B.Sc.).