New faculty members join ETH AI Center
A warm welcome to Profsessors Jan Dirk Wegner and Kjell Jorner, who join our Associated Faculty! Also, Professors Marc Pollefeys and Rico Zenklusen, who have so far been asssociated faculty members, were appointed to the Core Faculty by the General Assembly.
Jan Dirk Wegner holds the "Data Science for Sciences" chair at the Institute for Computational Science, University of Zurich, as an Associate Professor and is head of the EcoVision Lab at ETH Zurich. His work is centered around automated analysis of satellite imagery and remote sensing data, which he leverages to address research questions in ecology, biodiversity and climate sciences.
Prof. Wegner says he is looking forward to collaborating with ETH AI Center colleagues on "developing novel, exciting AI metholodogy for applications that benefit society and the planet."
Kjell Jorner, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto and Chalmers University of Technology, will become Assistant Professor of Digital Chemistry at ETH's Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences in January and join ETH AI Center as an associated faculty member. As a computational chemist, he leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to catalysis and computer-aided synthesis planning and optimization.
"I’m really excited to join the ETH AI Center as associated faculty. The world-class community at the Center provides me as a chemist the opportunity to work together with leading experts in artificial intelligence methods to create game-changing advances in catalysis and sustainable chemical production."
Rico Zenklusen has been an associated faculty member at ETH AI Center since late 2020. As a professor at ETH's department of mathematics, he works on a wide range of problems within Combinatorial Optimization and its numerous applications. A main focus of the reserach done in his team is the design of fast algorithms for complex (mathematical) optimization problems by leveraging a variety of techniques. He now joins ETH AI Center's core faculty.
Marc Pollefeys is a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich and the Director of the Microsoft Mixed Reality and AI Lab in Zurich, where he works with a team of scientists and engineers to develop advanced perception capabilities for HoloLens and Mixed Reality. He has been an associated faculty member at ETH AI Center since late 2020 and was now appointed to the core faculty.
Pollefeys is best known for his work in 3D computer vision, having been the first to develop a software pipeline to automatically turn photographs into 3D models, but also works on robotics, graphics and machine learning problems. Recently, he has led the development of VR tools that enhance surgical training with Prof. Siyu Tang.
If you‘re looking for a PhD or post-doc position, you can work with any one of our new associated and core faculty members through our ETH AI Center phd & Post-Doc fellowships. Apply here until Nov 30, 2022.