2024 June - August

NATO SAPIENCE Drone Competition (project)
Autonomous indoor drone competition for search & rescue:

• Task 1: Area mapping, task 2: People/object detection and task 3: Autonomous delivery of aid supply.
• My responsibility was task 2: onboard object detection (image segmentation and 3D localization of people/objects)
• PyTorch, ROS, Intel RealSense, Velodyne LiDAR

2023 October - 2024 May

Master Thesis: Diffusion Policy for Collision Avoidance in a Two-Arm Robot Setup (thesis, github)
Collision-free trajectory prediction for robot arms with Diffusion Models.

• 88.1% success rate for the best model
• PyTorch, PyBullet, cuRobo, Isaac Sim/Orbit

2023 July - October

Semester Project: Distributed Reinforcement Learning for autonomous driving in TrackMania
Development of a docker setup for training distributed RL agents in TrackMania, a PC game, on a Linux HPC cluster.

• PyTorch, OpenCV, Docker, Wine

2023 May - June

Advanced Systems Lab: Quilting - A fast implementation
Algorithm analysis and performance optimization in C for an image synthesis computer vision algorithm.

• SIMD, quantization, loop unrolling, caching

2023 March - July

Computational Intelligence Lab: Road Segmentation from Satellite Images with Stacked Neural Networks

• Images and road masks scraped from Bing Maps, Google Maps and OpenStreetMaps
• PyTorch, OpenCV, scikit-learn

2021 June - December

Bachelor Thesis: Deep Learning Methods for Supervised Anomaly Detection in Hummingbird Video Data

• PyTorch, OpenCV, scikit-learn

2021 September

HackZurich 2021: NewsRetrieval (link)
A self-implemented ranked retrieval system with an interactive graph-based visualization for news articles.

• I implemented the backend with the tf-idf search engine and the API service.
• Python, FastAPI

2020 September

HackZurich 2020: foo(d)bar (link)
An application that creates environmental awareness of our shopping behavior through gamification.

• My part was to integrate the map and to visualize the CO2 score.
• JavaScript, React, CSS

2020 March

HackZurich CodeVsCovid19: Covid-Chronicles (link)
An interactive map that visualizes the spread of COVID-19 over time throughout the world and lists relevant news articles during that time.

• I implemented the frontend with the visualization of all the countries.
• JavaScript, CSS, D3js

2019 September

HackZurich 2019: Swissup (link)
An application that helps groups of friends find local venues for nights out, minimizing travel time for everyone.

• Winner of Swisscom Challenge
• Typescript, CSS

2018 January/February

Internship SRM Präzisionsmechanik

• drilling, milling, turning (CNC/manually)

2016 - 2017

Zivildienst at elementary school Halden (Wohlen AG)

2012 - 2016

UNESCO Team Kantonsschule Wohlen

2012 - 2016

Cinema Cinepol Sins (part time, 10%)

• Projectionist, cashier, bartender

2022 - 2024

MSc. CS ETH Zürich

• Major in Visual and Interactive Computing
• Minor in Data Management

2018 - 2022

BSc. CS ETH Zürich

2017 - 2018

Basisjahr BSc. Mech. Ing. ETH Zürich

2012 - 2016

Kantonsschule Wohlen AG

• bilingual (german-french)

German

native language

English

speaking and writing fluently

French

speaking and writing good