PhDs, Postdocs & Research Scientists

PhD Students

Letian Shi Area: Computer Vision
Education: MSc in Mathematics in Operations Research and MSc in Data Engineering and Analytics at Technical University of Munich (TUM); B.Sc in Statistics at Sun Yat-sen University (China)
Advisers: Prof. Luc Van Gool and Dr. Danda Paudel

Kaloyan Tsvetkov Area: Machine Learning
Education: Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
Adviser: Dr. Nikola Konstantinov

Stefan Ailuro Area: Computer Vision
Education: B.Sc. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; ML Engineer Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Advisers: Prof. Luc Van Gool and Dr. Danda Paudel

Yuanqi Yao Area: Robotics
Education: M.Sc. & B.Sc. (Harbin Institute of Technology, HIT)
Advisers: Prof. Luc Van Gool and Dr. Danda Paudel

Mario Markov Area: Computer Vision
Education: MSc at ETH Zurich, BSc at Sofia University
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool

Deheng Zhang Area: Computer Vision
Education: BSc at City University of Hong Kong, MSc at ETH Zurich
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool

Jesus German Ortiz Barajas Area: Natural Language Processing
Education: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Adviser: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych

Anna-Maria Halacheva Area: Computer Vision
Education: M.Sc. & B.Sc. (University of Stuttgart)
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool

Zhendong Li Area: Computer Vision
Education: BSc. and MSc at Technical University of Munich (TUM) MSc. at EPFL
Advisers: Prof. Luc Van Gool and Dr. Danda Paudel

Nikolay Nikolov Area: Computer Vision and Robotics
Education: M.Eng. Imperial College London; M.Eng. Exchange at ETH Zurich
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool

Mohammadmahdi Ghahramani Area: Computer Vision and Generative AI
Education: MSc Computer Science at University of Padova, Italy; BSc Industrial Engineering at Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool

Trayan Gospodinov Area: Formal methods
Education: M.Sc. & B.Sc. (Sofia University)
Adviser: Prof. Peter Muller

Vatsal Venkatkrishna Area: Natural Language Processing
Education: Indian Institute of Technology
Adviser: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych

Anton Alexandrov Area: Machine Learning
Education: B.Sc. (University of Warwick), M.Sc. (ETH Zurich)
Advisers: Prof. Ce Zhang and Dr. Kristina Toutanova

Yang Miao Area: Computer Vision
Education: M.Sc. (ETH Zurich); B.Eng. (Harbin Institute of Technology); Visiting Student (University of California, Berkeley)
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool

Swagat Kumar Area: Quantum computing
Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison – Master of Physics; Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University
Advisers: Prof. Luc Van Gool, Dr. Jan-Nico Zaech

Mengjiao Ma Area: 3D Computer Vision
Education: Ph.D. student (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
Adviser: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool

Giuliano Albanese Area: Computer Vision and Robotics
Education: M.Sc. (ETH Zurich); B.Eng. (Politecnico di Torino)
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool

Nedko Savov Area: Computer Vision
Education: B.Sc. (Sofia University), M.Sc. (University of Amsterdam)
Advisers: Prof. Luc Van Gool and Prof. Otmar Hilliges

Runyi Yang, PhD student at INSAIT

Runyi Yang Area: Computer Vision and Robotics
Education: M.Res. (Imperial College London), B.Sc. (Beijing Institute of Technology- BIT)
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool

Sombit Dey_INSAIT

Sombit Dey Area: Computer Vision and Robotics
Education: B.Tech. (IIT Kharagpur), M.Sc. (ETH Zürich)
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool

Ivo Petrov_INSAIT

Ivo Petrov Area: Secure, Safe, and Trustworthy AI
Education: B.A. (University of Cambridge), M.Phil. (University of Cambridge)
Adviser: Prof. Martin Vechev

Nedyalko Prisadnikov Area: Computer Vision
Education: B.Sc. (Sofia University), M.Sc. (ETH Zürich)
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool

Nikita Tsoy Area: Machine Learning
Education: B.Sc. (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), M.A. (New Economic School)
Advisers: Dr. Nikola Konstantinov, Prof. Martin Jaggi

Hristo Venev Area: Quantum Computing
Education: M.Sc. (Oxford)
Adviser: Prof. Martin Vechev

Kristian Minchev Area: Machine Learning Theory
Education: B.Sc. from Oxford University
Advisor: Dr. Nikola Konstantinov

Sam Motamed Area: Computer Vision
Education: H.B.Sc. (University of Toronto), M.S. (University of Toronto)
Adviser: Prof. Luc Van Gool

Asen Nachkov Area: Computer Vision
Education: B.Sc. (Bocconi University), M.Sc. (Imperial College London)
Adviser: Prof. Luc Van Gool

Postdocs & Research Scientists

Dr. Zhijun Zhang

Dr. Kunyu Peng (Visiting)

Dr. Dimitar Iliev Dimitrov

Dr. Nikola Popovic

Dr. Mislav Balunović

Dr. Federico Marcuzzi

Nico Zaech

Dr. Veselin Raychev

Dr. Ajad Chhatkuli

Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov

Visiting Doctoral Students

Yutong Hu Area: Foundation Models for Robotics
Education: PhD candidate at KU Leuven; Beihang University – Master in Robot Engineering
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool

Xu Zheng Area: Multimodal Large Models
Education: Ph.D. candidate from The Hong Kong University of Science
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool

Yuedong Tan Area: Computer vision
Education: M.Eng. from Xidian University
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool

Qi Ma Area: Computer Vision
Education: Ph.D. student at the Computer Vision Lab (CVL) at ETH Zürich
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool

Long-Term Research Visitors

Xiaoye Wang Area: 3D computer vision
Education: University of Cambridge – MPhil in Data Intensive Science;
Harbin Institute of Technology – Bachelor in Information and Computing Science
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool

Berke Gokmen Area: 3D scene generation and generative AI
Education: Bilkent University – B.Sc. in Computer Science; EPFL – Exchange Semester
Advisor: Dr. Ajad Chhatkuli

Jiancheng Pan Area: Multi-Modal Large Language Models (LLMs)
Education: Zhejiang University of Technology
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool

Research Interns

Daniel Tropolinov

Past Members

Ivan Kirev Area: Machine Learning
Education: M.Sc. Imperial College London
Advisers: Dr. Nikola Konstantinov and Prof. Andreas Krause

Bin Ren Area: Computer Vision
Education: Ph.D. student (University of Pisa & University of Trento) M.Sc. (Peking University), B. Sc. (Central South University)
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool

Dr. Nick Fischer

Dr. Seri Khoury

Dr. Shyan Akmal

Dr. Jakub Tetek Area: Theoretical Computer Science

Mykyta Holubakha Area: Computer Vision
Education: B.Sc. (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), M.Sc. (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
Adviser: Prof. Luc Van Gool

Dr. Vaclav Rozhon Area: Theoretical Computer Science

Adarsh Srinivasan Area: Theoretical Computer Science
Education: PhD at Rutgers university
Advisor: Prof. Karthik Srikanta

Yaowei Long Area: Graph Algorithms and Data Structures
Education: PhD in University of Michigan and B.Sc. Tsinghua University
Advisor: Prof. Thatchaphol Saranurak

Antti Roeyskoe Area: Graph algorithms
Education: PhD student at ETH Zurich
Advisor: Prof. Bernhard Haeupler

Benyu Wang Area: Theoretical Computer Science
Education: PhD at University of Michigan and B.Eng. at Tsinghua University
Advisor: Prof. Thatchaphol Saranurak

Mursalin Habib Area: Theoretical Computer Science
Education: PhD from Rutgers University; BSc Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Advisor: Prof. Karthik Srikanta

Dr. Carmelo Scribano

Astrid Mocanu Area: Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision
Education: B.Sc. (Al. I. Cuza University of Iași), M.Sc. (Al. I. Cuza University of Iași)
Adviser: Dr. Kristina Toutanova and Prof. Luc Van Gool

Kostadin Garov Area: Machine Learning
Education: B.Sc. (Sofia University),
M.Sc. (Sofia University)
Advisers: Prof. Martin Vechev, Dr. Nikola Konstantinov

Stefan Balauca Area: Machine Learning
Education: B.Sc. (Al. I. Cuza University of Iași), M.Sc. (Al. I. Cuza University of Iași)
Adviser: Prof. Martin Vechev

Andrea Alfarano Area: Computer Vision
Education: Sapienza University, University of Zurich, Max Planck Institute
Adviser: Prof. Luc Van Gool and Dr. Lei Sun

Dr. Eric Atkinson Now a tenure-track faculty member at Binghamton University