Affiliated Faculty

The affiliated mentors are renowned scientists and professors from world-class research labs and universities who can actively work with, advise and supervise PhD students at INSAIT. As described in our PhD program, PhD students will be able to spend up to three months at the respective institution of their PhD mentors, establishing close research ties with world-class research groups.

Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing

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Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych Natural Language Processing
President of ACL
Dr. Kristina Toutanova Natural Language Processing
Research Scientist
Google, USA
Prof. Otmar Hilliges Computer Vision
ERC Starting and Consolidator Grants, Max-Planck Fellow
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Ce Zhang Machine Learning, Systems, SIGMOD Best Paper Award, SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Martin Vechev Programming Languages and Artificial Intelligence
ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Award
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Andreas Krause Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
ETH AI Center Director
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Russ Salakhutdinov Machine Learning
CIFAR Fellow
Carnegie-Melon University, USA
Prof. Martin Jaggi Machine Learning
Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching
EPFL, Switzerland

Cryptography, Security, Systems, Programming Languages, Verification, Theory

Prof. David Basin Information Security
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Founding Director of Zurich Information Security Center
ACM Fellow
Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki Database management
EPFL, Switzerland
Executive Manager, RAW Labs SA
Dr. Mariana Raykova Cryptography
Research Scientist
Google, USA
Prof. Virginia Vassilevska Williams Theory and Algorithms
Sloan Fellow
MIT, USA
Prof. Onur Mutlu Computer Architecture
ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award, ACM and IEEE Fellow
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Peter Müller Program Verification, On the editorial board of ACM TOPLAS
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Laurent Vanbever Computer Networking, 2021 ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star Award
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Srdjan Capkun Computer Security
ACM Fellow
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Martin Odersky Programming Languages
ACM Fellow, Inventor of Scala
EPFL, Switzerland
Prof. Mathias Payer Software Security, ERC and SNSF Eccellenza Grant Winner
EPFL, Switzerland