About me
I am a PhD student in the Advanced Interactive Technologies lab at ETH Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Otmar Hilliges. I received my BSc (2016) and MSc (2018) in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from ETH Zürich with a focus on robotics, machine learning and control.
Research Interests
My research focuses on modeling human interactions with the physical world. Specifically, I'm researching how natural and physically plausible behavior can be integrated into generative motion models by using physics simulations and deep reinforcement learning. Furthermore, I'm investigating how these models can be leveraged in application domains such as human-robot Interactions, AR/VR, and others.
If you are interested in Semester/Master project in our group, you can check our available projects. If you have your own topic related with my research, you are welcome to contact me.
You can also find me on Twitter, Linkedin, and Google scholar.
Publications
Academic Activities
Reviewing
- 2024
- CVPR, EAI@CVPR, ECCV, ICRA, IROS, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, T-RO
- 2023
- CVPR, ICCV, ICRA, IROS, RA-L, SIGGRAPH, 3DV, Comput Methods Biomech and Biomed Eng
- 2022
- CVPR, ICRA, IROS, RA-L, ECCV (outstanding reviewer), SIGGRAPH Asia, Computers & Graphics
- 2021
- NeurIPS, RA-L, IROS
- 2020
- CHI, RA-L, ICRA
Other
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- Invited talk at the Generative Modeling meets HRI workshop at RSS
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- Invited talk at the dexterous manipulation workshop at RSS
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- I am serving as Social Media & Website Chair at 3DV2025
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- Invited talk at Tsinghua University
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- Started internship at Meta Reality Labs
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- Internship at NVIDIA
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- Part of the organizing committee of the Hands@ECCV workshop
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- Honored as outstanding reviewer at ECCV
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- Session Chair at ICRA 2021 for Learning-Based Motion Planning
Student Theses
- 2023
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Nina Schmid Semester Project
Adversarial Skill Embeddings for Controlling Physics-Based Characters with Variable Body Shapes - 2022
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Luocheng Zheng Master Thesis
Two Hand Manipulation of Articulated Objects -
Jona Braun Master Thesis
Physically Plausible Dynamic Full-Body Grasp Synthesis for Human-Object Interactions -
Lan Feng Semester Project
Controllable Human Grasp Generation -
Andrea Ziani Master Thesis
TempCLR: Reconstructing Hands via Time-Coherent Contrastive Learning -
Caroline Sauget Master Thesis
Reinforcement Learning for Incentivizing Sustainable Investments - 2021
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Marco Bagatella Master Thesis
SFP: State-free Priors for Exploration in Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning - 2020
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Joel Neuner-Jehle Bachelor Thesis
Guiding Reinforcement Learning with Deep Saliency Prediction -
Nikola Vulin Master Thesis
Learning to Control Contact Forces in Robotic Manipulation - 2019
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Lukas Jendele Master Thesis
Learning Functionally Decomposed Hierarchies for Continuous Navigation Tasks
Teaching
- Machine Perception — Spring 2023
- Advanced Topics in Human-Centric Computer Vision — Autumn 2022
- Machine Perception — Spring 2022
- Advanced Topics in Human-Centric Computer Vision — Autumn 2021
- Informatik I (D-BAUG) — Autumn 2021
- Machine Perception — Spring 2021
- Informatik I (D-BAUG) — Autumn 2020
- Machine Perception — Spring 2020
- Informatik I (D-MATH, IFMP) — Autumn 2019
- Machine Perception — Spring 2019