Faculty
We present the current faculty of the ETH AI Center. As of November 2023, the ETH AI Center is comprised of 122 Professors (36 Core Faculty + 86 Associated Faculty). The Center spans all 16 departments of ETH Zurich and also comprises nine external professors (9x University of Zurich and 1x University of St.Gallen) who have close ties to ETH & a strong thematic fit.
Core Faculty
Prof. Ana Klimovic
Research interests: Computer systems, cloud computing, storage systems, distributed systems & their intersection with machine learning
Prof. Andreas Krause
Research Interest: machine learning, reinforcement learning, Bayesian optimization, robustness and safety, uncertainty, submodularity
external pageProf. Bernhard Schölkopf
Research Interest: Machine learning, causality
Prof. Fanny Yang
Research interests: statistical learning, reliable and robust ML
Prof. Gunnar Rätsch
Research interests: machine learning, time series, medical data, genomics, cancer, intensive care
Prof. Joachim Buhmann
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Prof. Julia Vogt
Research interests: Machine Learning, Medical Data Science
Prof. Marc Pollefeys
Research interests: Computer vision, Machine Learning, Robotics, Autonomous Systems, Mixed Reality, Augmented Reality.
Prof. Martin Vechev
Research interests: Safe and Reliable Artificial Intelligence, Robust and Fair Deep Learning, Certification of Machine Learning
Prof. Menna El-Assady
Research interests: human-ai collaboration, intelligence augmentation, visual analytics, information visualization, computational linguistics, digital humanities.
Prof. Mrinmaya Sachan
Research interests: Natural Language Processing Knowledge Representation Reasoning NLP for Education
Prof. Niao He
Research interests: Optimization ; Reinforcement Learning; Algorithms and Complexities ; Trustworthy AI
Prof. Otmar Hilliges
Research interests: computer vision, machine learning, human-computer interaction, AR/VR
Prof. Ryan Cotterell
Research interests: natural language processing, computational linguistics, machine learning, statistics
Prof. Siyu Tang
Research interests: Computer vision, virtual humans, human motion capture, human body modelling, human activity understanding
Prof. Stelian Coros
Research interests: Robotics, Motion Modeling, Control, Physics-based simulation, Motor Learning
Prof. Thomas Hofmann
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Prof. Torsten Hoefler
Research interests: Deep learning, optimization, sparsity, high-performance, parallelism,
Prof. Valentina Boeva
Research interests: cancer, machine learning, sequencing
Prof. Afonso Bandeira
Research interests: Mathematics of Data Science, High Dimensional Probability, Random Matrices, Graph and Network Theory, Theoretical Computer Science, Statistical and Computational Tradeoffs.
external pageProf. Jonas Peters
Research interests: causal inference, distributional robustness, ML in the sciences
Prof. Peter Bühlmann
Research interests: Causal Inference, High-Dimensional Statistics, Machine Learning
Prof. Rico Zenklusen
Research interests: - Combinatorial Optimization and its applications - Operations Research - Decision support systems
Prof. Siddhartha Mishra
Research interests: Numerical Analysis, Scientific computing, Computational fluid dynamics, Computational Astrophysics, Computational Geoscience, Modeling and simulation in Biology, Uncertainty quantification, Data driven modeling and computation, Foundations of Machine learning
external pageProf. Benjamin Grewe
Research interests: artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience, systems neuroscience, learning algorithms, algorithmic development, reinforcement learning, embodied learning
external pageProf. Fisher Yu
Research interests: computer vision, robotics, machine learning
Prof. Helmut Bölcskei
Research interests: Machine learning theory Applied and computational harmonic analysis Mathematical signal processing Data science, statistics
Prof. Roger Wattenhofer
Research interests: Current focus: Graph Neural Networks. Also Natural Language Processing, Signal Processing, Computer Vision, Medical Applications, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Neural Networks, and Algorithm Learning.
Prof. Marco Hutter
Research interests: Robotics, Control, Reinforcement Learning
Prof. Melanie Zeilinger
Research interests: learning systems, learning-based control, safe learning, optimal control, optimization
Prof. Robert Katzschmann
Research interests: soft robotics, biohybrid robots, robotic manipulation, robotic locomotion, underwater robotics, robotic transformers, reinforcement learning, cooptimization, multiphysical surrogate modeling
Prof. Niko Beerenwinkel
Research interests: probabilistic graphical models, evolutionary modeling, precision medicine, genomics, multi-omics data integration, cancer, RNA viruses
Prof. Eleni Chatzi
Research interests: Data-driven Condition Assessment of Structures and Infrastructures Fusion of Data and Models for Diagnostics and and Prognostics, Structural Health Monitoring, Monitoring-driven Decision Support for Predictive Maintenance
Prof. Konrad Schindler
Research interests: remote sensing computer vision Earth observation image understanding
external pageProf. Elliott Ash
Research interests: law, economics, computational social science, political science, natural language processing, machine learning, causal inference
Prof. Ulrik Brandes
Research interests: social networks, graph algorithms, information visualization; applications in sports, digital humanities, social media, collective behavior, archaeology, political science, anthropology, and other domains
Associated Faculty
Prof. Benjamin Dillenburger
Research interests: Artificial Intelligence in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction
external pageProf. Bernd Bickel
Research interests: computational design, genAI, physics-based simulation, digital fabrication, computer graphics, interactive techniques
Prof. Benedikt Soja
Research interests: Machine learning for geodetic, geophysical and climate-related problems Automation and anomaly detection Time series analysis and prediction
Prof. Bruno Sudret
Research interests: Uncertainty quantification, sensitivity analysis, polynomial chaos expansions, Gaussian processes, Bayesian statistics, model inversion
Prof. Catherine De Wolf
Research interests: visual machine perception, computer vision, machine learning, reuse, circular construction, reality capture, material recognition
Prof. Francesco Corman
Research interests: transport optimization; data analytics and automated decision making; combinatorial optimization; predictions; public transport
Prof. Walter Kaufmann
Research interests: General: Future-oriented Structures, Digital Fabrication, Structural Design Related to AI (applied in Structural Engineering): Generative Design; Geometric Deep Learning; GANNs; Bayesian Optimization, Physics-Informed Machine and Deep Learning
Prof. Nicola Zamboni
Research interests: systems biology, metabolism, mass spectrometry, metabolomics, lipidomics, spectral identification, molecular networks, personalized health
Prof. Shinichi Sunagawa
Research interests: Ocean and human microbial community genomics Bioinformatics Use of machine learning in microbial ecology
Prof. Mustafa Khammash
Research interests: Computational methods in stochastic systems biology. Application of control theory in systems and synthetic biology
Prof. Andrea Burden
Research interests: Drug safety research, polypharmacy, pharamcoepidemiology, epidemiology, health services research
Prof. Gisbert Schneider
Research interests: Drug discovery with AI Adaptive systems Bioinformatics Nature-inspired computing
Prof. Kjell Jorner
Research interests: Physics-augmented machine learning, Molecular design, Generative models, Optimization, Catalysis, Computational chemistry
Prof. Sereina Riniker
Research interests: - Computational chemistry - Molecular dynamics simulations - Cheminformatics
Prof. Cara Magnabosco
Research interests: Geobiology, Genomics, Evolution, Systems Biology
Prof. Domenico Giardini
Research interests: In recent years, mantle and core structure and dynamics, seismic hazard assessment, planetary seismology, induced seismicity, geo-energy, energy system modelling, deep underground laboratories, earthquake physics, detection and characterisation of gravitational waves
Prof. Stefan Wiemer
Research interests: Seismology, earthquakes forecasting and predictability , induced seismicity, statistical seismology, deep geothermal energy, CO2 storage.
Prof. Andreas Wenger
Research interests: Machine-learning applications for conflict data, AI and technology governance, AI for Good
Prof. Christoph Hoelscher
Research interests: cognitively plausible agent-based models of human behavior in built environments; sensor networks for motion detection and modelling; investigating the potential of LLMs for cognitive psychology; AI-based design support and co-design for architects and urban planners; human-computer interaction and user experience with financial systems and their impact on risk taking and decision making.
Prof. Dirk Helbing
Research interests: Complex Systems, Machine Learning, Reinforcement learning, Federated AI, Traffic, Crowds, Mobility, Smart Cities, Opinion Spreading, Financial Market Dynamics, Cryptocurrencies, Cryptoeconomics
Prof. Dominik Hangartner
Research interests: Evaluation and design of migration and integration policies using causal inference and machine learning methods
Prof. Manu Kapur
Research interests: adaptive learning, personalized education, educational technology, learning analytics
Prof. Stefan Bechtold
Research interests: explainable AI, right to explanation, automated decision-making, human in the loop, algorithmic fairness, privacy & AI, policy implications of AI
Prof. Verena Zimmermann
Research interests: Human-Centered Security and Privacy, Human-Computer Interaction, Socio-Technical System Design, Cybersecurity, Human Behaviour
Prof. Bernd Wollscheid
Research interests: molecular health; multi-OMICS data generation, analysis, and interpretation; pattern detection in proteoptying data using deep neural networks
Prof. Carlo Menon
Research interests: Monitoring Health; Mobile Health; Wearable Technology; E-Textile; Intelligent Materials; Internet of Things; Health and Society.
Prof. Effy Vayena
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Prof. Robert Riener
Research interests: Rehabilitation robotics, assistive devices, wearable robotics and sensors, 24h monitoring of patients, sleep research, pattern recognition (snoring, apnea, sleep posture, gait patterns, different activities of daily living)
Prof. Roger Gassert
Research interests: neurorehabilitation, rehabilitation robotics, assessment-driven therapy, minimally-supervised therapy, automated difficulty adaptation
Prof. Simone Schuerle
Research interests: micro- and nanorobots, drug delivery, diagnostics
Prof. Angelika Steger
Research interests: continual learning, few shot learning, reinforcement learning, multi-armed bandit problem
external pageProf. April Wang
Research interests: Human Computer Interaction; Human AI Collaboration; AI in Educationexternal page
external pageProf. Christian Holz
Research interests: computational interaction, virtual/mixed reality, predictive mobile health monitoring, haptic feedback systems physical computing, wearable devices.
external pageProf. Florian Tramèr
Research interests: Machine learning security, privacy, robustness, cryptography
Prof. Markus Gross
Research interests: Computer Animation, Special Effects, Digital Humans, Video Processing, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Emotion Analysis, Digital Storytelling Games, Interactive Media
Prof. Markus Püschel
Research interests: program generation, signal processing, performance optimization, program analysis, domain-specific languages, machine learning, FPGAs
Prof. Olga Sorkine-Hornung
Research interests: Computer graphics, geometry processing, 3D shape representation, computer animation, discrete differential geometry, geometric deep learning, digital fabrication
external pageProf. Daniel Razansky
Research interests: Biomedical engineering, molecular imaging, noninvasive diagnostics, big data
Prof. Ender Konukoglu
Research interests: Biomedical image analysis, bio-imaging, unsupervised learning, Bayesian modelling, robust learning models
Prof. Florian Dörfler
Research interests: theory: control, optimization, system theory, games, decision making, RL applications: energy, power, social networks
external pageProf. Giacomo Indiveri
Research interests: Cortical models of computaion Spiking Neural Networks Spike-based learning Edge-computing Low-power neural network accelerators
Prof. Hans-Andrea Loeliger
Research interests: My research interests have been in the broad areas of signal processing, machine learning, information theory, quantum systems, error correcting codes, communications, electronic circuits, and neural computation.
Prof. John Lygeros
Research interests: Automatic control, data driven decision making, decision making under uncertainty, applications to energy and industrial processes
Prof. Klaas Enno Stephan
Research interests: psychiatry psychosomatic medicine brain connectivity generative models Bayesian inference Bayesian model selection
Prof. Lothar Thiele
Research interests: Embedded machine learning, multipbjective evolutionary algorithms, embedded information processing, embedded systems and software, environmental monitoring.
Prof. Luc Van Gool
Research interests: computer vision, self-driving, image enhancement, object recognition, semantic segmentation, 3D reconstruction, tracking, action recognition
Prof. Luca Benini
Research interests: Hardware architectures for Machine Learning, Design of efficient AI acceleration engines. Codesign of hardware-software systems of ML and AI, Training and inference techniques for quantized neural networks, Edge AI and ML.
Prof. Mehmet Fatih Yanik
Research interests: neuronal representations, rule learning/generalisation, insight learning, imitation, theory of mind
Prof. Onur Mutlu
Computer architecture, computer systems, bioinformatics, memory and storage systems, hardware security, fault tolerance, energy efficiency, hardware/software cooperation, genome analysis, computers for health & medicine, systems for personalized medicine.
external pageProf. Richard Hahnloser
Research interests: Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Citation Recommendation, Citation Generation, Reinforcement Learning Birdsong
external pageProf. Tobi Delbruck
Research interests: Neural hardware, Perception, Control, IoT, Robotics, Audition, Vision
Prof. Valerio Mante
Research interests: Mechanistic interpretability of artificial neural networks, embodied cognition and learning, reinforcement learning, deep-learning applications for video analysis.
Prof. Josef Teichmann
Research interests: Stochastic Finance, Rough Analysis, Risk Management, Revervoir Computing, Implicit Regularization, Bayesian Optimization, Deep Hedging, Randomization in AI
Prof. Nicolai Meinshausen
Research interests: Methodological: computational statistics, causality Applications: mostly in climate science
Prof. Patrick Cheridito
Research interests: Stochastic models, financial mathematics, insurance mathematics, risk theory, probability theory, machine learning
external pageProf. Rima Alaifari
Research interests: Deep learning, robustness, adversarial attacks, inverse problems
Prof. Jan Vermant
Research interests: soft materials, constitutive modelling, material design
Prof. Elgar Fleisch
Research interests: Digital biomarkers for chronic diseases such as asthma, COPD & stress Biofeedback for breathing based on phone sensor data, Vehicle hypoglycemia warning system, States of receptivity for just-in-time adaptive interventions, Acoustic data, data from mobile phones and cars
Prof. Florian v. Wangenheim
Research interests: Trusted AI, AI based personalization, AI Applications
Prof. Georg von Krogh
Research interests: algorithmic research methods, strategic management, organization theory, digital innovation, online communities, open source software development
Prof. Gudela Grote
Research interests: integrative socio-technical design; human-AI teaming; impact of digitization on careers; management of uncertainty by individuals, teams, and organizations; entrepreneurship and innovation; good human resource management practices
Prof. Torbjørn Netland
Research interests: Applications of AI in manufacturing; AI for quality management; AI's role in Industry 4.0; AI for production planning and scheduling
Daniel Ahmed
Research interests: micro- and nanorobotics, translational microrobotics in medicine, ultrasound medicine
Prof. Inge Katrin Herrmann
Research interests: Materials innovation, nanoparticles design and synthesis, spectral and digital pathology, multi-scale multimodal imaging, from concept to clinics
Prof. Kristina Shea
Research interests: AI in Design, Computational design synthesis and inverse design problems, data-driven generative design methods.
Prof. Laura De Lorenzis
Research interests: Data-driven solid mechanics, fracture mechanics, contact mechanics, discretization techniques, modeling and simulation of additive manufacturing processes
Prof. Mirko Meboldt
Research interests: Human behavior, augmented reality ,engineering design, additive manufacturing, medical devices
Prof. Roland Siegwart
Research interests: Our mission and dedication is to create robots and intelligent systems that are able to autonomously operate in complex and diverse environments.
Prof. Alexandre Refregier
Research interests: Cosmology, Astrophysics, data analysis, large data sets, machine learning, statistical methods, advanced scientific algorithms, custom data processing clusters.
Prof. Günther Dissertori
Research interests: Data analysis in particle physics, pattern recognition, reconstruction algorithms, anomaly detection.
Prof. Marina Krstic Marinkovic
Research interests: strongly interacting systems, machine learning of phase transitions, high performance computing, scalability of ML algorithms
Prof. Sascha Quanz
Research interests: - astrophysics - astronomical instrumentation (ground- and space-based) - extrasolar planets - astrobiology
- origin of life
Prof. Daniela Domeisen
Research interests: weather and climate prediction, numerical modeling, atmospheric fluid dynamics, extreme weather events and their impacts
Prof. Sebastian Schemm
Research interests: - Weather and Climate Dynamics - High-Resolution Modeling of Weather and Climate. - Physics-regulated machine learning.
external pageProf. Simon Mayer
Research interests: Interoperability of heterogeneous distributed AI (and AAI) systems, Hypermedia Multi-Agent Systems, Web of Things, Applications in Industry
external pageProf. Bernd Stadlinger
Research interests: - Medical AI - Analysis of radiology data using machine learning and medical image processing - Intelligent diagnosis and prognosis support - Computer graphics and medical image processing
Prof. Bjoern Menze
Research interests: medical image computing, interface of machine learning, medical imaging, and image-based diagnostics.
external pageProf. Davide Scaramuzza
Research interests: Robotics, Robot learning, Robot vision, Event cameras, Autonomous Drones, Flying cars, Self-driving cars, computer vision, Deep learning
Prof. Giorgia Ramponi
Research interests: Reinforcement Learning, Multi-agent learning, sequential decision making problems, imitation learning
Prof. Jan Dirk Wegner
Research interests: AI for protecting society and the planet, AI4Good, AI for Sustainability, AI for biodiversity; geospatial computer vision, remote sensing
external pageProf. Michael Krauthammer
Research interests: Clinical data science, Cancer genetics
external pageProf. Philipp Fürnstahl
Research interests: computer-aided surgery reinforcement learning data and sensor fusion augmented reality
external pageProf. Shih-Chi Liu
Research interests: event-driven deep neural networks, edge computing, audition, continual learning, IoT, high energy-efficient neural accelerators
external pageProf. Sven Seuken
Research interests: Algorithmic Game Theory; Computational Mechanism Design; Market Design; Economics and Computation; Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Optimization Methods;