Team SIPLAB

• Christian Holz (PI)

  sensing, interaction & perception
  

• Fiorella Meyer

  office manager. operations and logistics.
  

• Max Moebus

  applied statistics for mobile health. M.Sc. Statistics from Oxford University.
  

• Bjoern Braun

  non-contact physiological sensing. M.Sc. Robotics, Systems and Control from ETH Zürich.
  

• Berken Utku Demirel

  learning-based signal processing. M.Sc. EE/CS from UC Irvine.
  

• Jiaxi Jiang

  full-body motion estimation. M.Sc. Computer Science from RWTH Aachen.
  

• Dominik Hollidt

  motion and input modeling. M.Sc. Computer Science from ETH Zürich.
  

• Ying Xue

  motion and scene interaction. M.Sc. Computer Science from ETH Zürich.
  

• Yi-Chi Liao

  user modeling & simulation. PhD Computer Science from Aalto University. ETH Postdoc fellow.
  

• Zhipeng Li

  user preference modeling. M.Sc. Computer Science from Tsinghua University.
  

• Rachel Schuchert

  affective computing. M.Sc. Computer Science from ETH Zürich.
  

• Tommaso Bendinelli

  LLM benchmarking. M.Sc. Electrical Engineering from ETH Zürich. CSEM associate.
  

• Andjela Ilic

  human-scene interaction. M.Sc. Electrical Engineering from ETH Zürich.
  

• Yijing Jiang

  wearable interfaces. research visitor from Aarhus University.
  

• Malaaika Chhaya

  tactile perception. M.Tech. Biomedical Engineering from IIT Hyderabad. CLS-MPI fellow.
  

Team alumni

Graduated PhD students

• Paul Streli (2025)

  next: Research Scientist at Meta
  

• Manuel Meier (2025)

  next: Engineering Lead at robotics
  

• Liliana Barrios (2023)

  next: Senior Data Scientist at Swiss Data Science Center
  

Past postdocs

• Shkurta Gashi

  next: Data Scientist at IKEA Data & Technology
  

• Christoph Gebhardt

  next: Professor at Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences
  

• Tiffany Luong

  next: Research Scientist at MIT
  

• Andreas Fender

  next: Postdoc at University of Stuttgart
  

• Hugo Romat

  next: Research Scientist at Microsoft Redmond
  

Past PhD visitors

• Zhipeng Li (Tsinghua University): ACM UIST '24 paper.
• Mohamed Kari (University of Duisburg-Essen & Porsche): ACM CHI '23 paper.
• Karan Ahuja (CMU HCII): ACM UIST '21 paper.