A warm welcome to our new faculty members
Günther Dissertori, Tobi Delbruck, Shih-Chii Liu and Richard Hahnloser have recently joined our faculty. Their research interests span from particle physics to neural hardware to the science of birdsong.
Günther Dissertori is a renowned particle physicist. He has made important contributions to the CMS experiment at CERN, which is one of the two experiments that discovered the Higgs boson in 2012.
At the ETH AI Center, Dissertori aims to further strengthen the activities of his group and establish new collaborations with other experts, regarding the application of machine-learning (ML) techniques in particle physics, with focus on data analysis, anomaly detection with quantum machine learning and planned efforts in the area of ML-driven event reconstruction.
Shih-Chii Liu and Tobi Delbruck co-direct the Sensors research group at the Insittute of Neuroinformatics, a joint institute of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich.
They work on bio-inspired and neuromorphic sensory and motor processing such as spike-event-based silicon retina vision sensors, silicon cochlea auditory sensors, event-sensor algorithms and applications, neural prostheses, and hardware neural accelerators that exploit neuromorphic sparsity principles. They look forward to establishing collaborations with other AI center members interested in real time efficient perception, control, and continual learning in physical systems.
Richard Hahnloser researches the neural principles underlying vocal learning and imitation in songbirds.
Using a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches, he and his interdisciplinary team explore the boundary between biology and engineering, ethe organization of the songbird brain, and computational theories of vocal learning.
He is based at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, a joint institute of the University of Zürich and ETH Zürich, where he leads the Birdsong and Natural Language Group.