PhDs, Postdocs & Research Scientists

PhD Students

Félix Dedek Area: Computer Vision
Education: M.Sc. at ENS Paris-Saclay; B.Sc. at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Adviser: Dr. Jinjin Gu
Cory Myers Area: Information Security
Education: M.Sc. at University of Washington; BA at Yale College
Adviser: Prof. David Basin
Daniel Korth Area: Computer Vision
Education: B.Sc. and M.Sc. at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool
Vanja Kovinic Area: Computer Vision
Education: M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science at Union University (RAF)
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool
Jiayi Fu Area: Natural Language Processing
Education: M.Sc. at Fudan University; B.Eng. at Harbin Institute of Technology
Adviser: Dr. Yuxia Wang
Lorenzo Venturoli Area: Computer Vision
Education: B.Sc. at University of Bologna, M.Sc. at ETH Zurich
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool
Hongyu An Area: Computer Vision
Education: B.Sc. at Tongji University; M.Sc. at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Advisers: Prof. Luc Van Gool and Dr. Jinjin Gu
Asen Dotsinski Area: LLM Safety and Security
Education: M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence (University of Amsterdam); B.Eng. in Computer Science (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Adviser: Dr. Yuxia Wang
Petko Petkov Area: Computer vision and Robotics
Education: M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence, Université Paris-Saclay; B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Advisers: Prof. Luc Van Gool and Dr. Danda Paudel
Kaiyang Wan Area: Natural Language Processing
Education: B.Sc. at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; MBZUAI – Research Associate
Adviser: Dr. Yuxia Wang
Nadia Markova Area: Machine learning and Information security
Education: B.Sc. at the University of Toronto & M.Cog.Sc. at Carleton University
Adviser: Prof. David Basin
Ruibo Ming Area: Computer vision
Education: Tsinghua University – M.Sc.; Beijing Institute of Technology – B.Sc.
Advisers: Prof. Luc Van Gool and Dr. Jinjin Gu
Letian Shi Area: Computer Vision
Education: M.Sc. in Mathematics in Operations Research and M.Sc. 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. Michael Reichle
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
Mario Markov Area: Computer Vision
Education: M.Sc. at ETH Zurich, B.Sc. at Sofia University
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool
Zhendong Li Area: Computer Vision
Education: B.Sc. and M.Sc. at Technical University of Munich (TUM) M.Sc. at EPFL
Advisers: Prof. Luc Van Gool and Dr. Danda Paudel
Deheng Zhang Area: Computer Vision
Education: B.Sc. at City University of Hong Kong, M.Sc. 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
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: M.Sc. Computer Science at University of Padova, Italy; B.Sc. Industrial Engineering at Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Advisers: Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool
Vatsal Venkatkrishna Area: Natural Language Processing
Education: Indian Institute of Technology
Adviser: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
Trayan Gospodinov Area: Formal methods
Education: M.Sc. & B.Sc. (Sofia University)
Adviser: Prof. Peter Müller
Anton Alexandrov Area: Machine Learning
Education: B.Sc. (University of Warwick), M.Sc. (ETH Zurich)
Advisers: Prof. Ce Zhang and Dr. Kristina Toutanova
Swagat Kumar Area: Quantum computing
Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison – Master of Physics; Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University
Advisers: Prof. Luc Van Gool
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
Anna-Maria Halacheva Area: Computer Vision
Education: M.Sc. & B.Sc. (University of Stuttgart)
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)
Adviser: Prof. Martin Vechev
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: Prof. Martin Vechev
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. Yanda Li Area: Natural Language Processing
Ph.D. from University of Technology Sydney
Dr. Lazar Milenković Area: Algorithms and Theory
Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University, M.Sc. from EPFL
Dr. Taewoo Kim Area: Computer Vision
Ph.D. from KAIST
Dr. Bundit Laekhanukit Area: Algorithms and Theory
Ph.D. from McGill University
Dr. Mengshun Hu Area: Computer Vision
Ph.D. from Wuhan University
Dr. Xinlei Wang Area: Computer Vision
Ph.D. from University of Sydney
Dr. Zhijun Zhang Area: Algorithms and Theory
Ph.D. from Princeton University
Dr. Nikola Popovic Area: Computer Vision
Ph.D. from ETH Zurich
Dr. Lei Sun Area: Computer Vision
Ph.D. from Zhejiang University
Dr. Federico Marcuzzi Area: Natural Language Processing
Ph.D. from Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Dr. Ajad Chhatkuli Area: Computer Vision and AI
Ph.D. from University of Clermont-Auvergne, France
Dr. Dimitar Iliev Dimitrov Area: AI Security
Ph.D. from ETH Zurich
Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov Area: Programming Languages
Ph.D. from ETH Zurich, ETH Medal for outstanding PhD thesis

Long-Term Research Visitors and Collaborators

Dr. Veselin Raychev

Past members

  • Xiaoye Wang, now a Master’s student at the University of Cambridge
  • Qi Ma, now a Ph.D. student at Computer Vison Lab, ETH Zurich
  • Yutong Hu, now an ELLIS Ph.D. student at KU Leuven
  • Berke Gökmen, now a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley EECS
  • Yang Miao, now a research intern at Tecent Hunyuan3D group
  • Dr. Mislav Balunović, now a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind
  • Dr. -Ing. Kunyu Peng, now a postdoctoral researcher at CVHCI Lab, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Yuanqi Yao
  • Dannong Xu
  • Xu Zheng, now a co-founder at Familiar (Y Combinator S26)
  • Dr. Jan-Nico Zaech, now a senior research scientist at Woven by Toyota
  • Daniel Tropolinov, now a teaching assistant at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
  • Jiancheng Pan, now a Ph.D. student at Tsinghua University
  • Dr. Yuqian Fu, now a visiting scholar at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)
  • Ivan Kirev, now a quantitative researcher at FactSet
  • Bin Ren, now a postdoctoral associate of Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)
  • Dr. Nick Fischer, now a researcher at Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII)
  • Dr. Seri Khoury, now a co-founder and CEO of an AI safety startup
  • Dr. Shyan Akmal, now a postdoctoral researcher and Klaus Tschira Boost Fellow in Theoretical Computer Science at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII)
  • Dr. Jakub Tětek, now a co-founder and CTO of an AI safety startup
  • Mykyta Holubakha, now head of R&D at GetMyLook
  • Dr. Václav Rozhoň, now an Assistant Professor at Charles University
  • Adarsh Srinivasan, now a Ph.D. student at Rutgers University
  • Yaowei Long, now a Ph.D. student at University of Michigan
  • Antti Roeyskoe, now a Ph.D. student at ETH Zurich
  • Benyu Wang, a Ph.D. student at University of Michigan
  • Mursalin Habib, now a Ph.D. student at Rutgers University
  • Dr. Carmelo Scribano, now a postdoctoral researcher at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
  • Astrid Mocanu, now an AI and Quantum Computing researcher at FreeYa Mind Campus
  • Kostadin Garov
  • Stefan Balauca, now a Ph.D. student and Assistant Lecturer at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași and a researcher at FreeYaMind Campus
  • Andrea Alfarano, now a scientific collaborator at Center for Digital Visual Studies (University of Zurich and Max Planck Society)
  • Dr. Eric Atkinson, now a tenure-track faculty member at Binghamton University