The information about DISAL collaborators from 2003 up to date can be found in the following. For the period between December 1999 and August 2003, the collaborators of our laboratory are affiliated with CORO. Information about the CORO alumni can be found on this page.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Ali Marjovi, PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal. Next and current employment: Technical Lead (equivalent to CTO) at Manufacture Module Technologies SA, Plan-Les-Ouates, GE, Switzerland and Founder and Technical Board Member of AirVeraCity Sàrl, Lausanne, Switzerland, a start-up having transferred DISAL technology to the field of air quality monitoring.
Alexander Bahr, PhD in Ocean Engineering, MIT Cambridge, USA. Next and current employment: Co-founder and COO of Hydromea S.A., Renens, Switzerland, a start-up having transferred DISAL technology to the field of underwater robotics.
Felix Schill, PhD Computer Science, Australian National University Canberra, Australia. Next and current employment: Co-founder and CTO of Hydromea S.A., Renens, Switzerland, a start-up having transferred DISAL technology to the field of underwater robotics.
Inaki Navarro, PhD in Automation and Robotics 2010, UPM, Madrid, Spain. Next employment: Software Engineer at Advertima Inc., St. Gallen, Switzerland; current employment: Principal Software Engineer at Roblox, Zurich, Switzerland (remote operation).
Andreas Breitenmoser, PhD in Mechanical and Process Engineering 2013, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Next employment: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Robotics Embedded Systems Laboratory (Prof. G. Sukhatme, University of Southern California, USA); current employment: Embedded Software Engineer at Sonova Inc., Stäfa, Switzerland.
Massimo Mastrangeli, PhD in Materials Engineering 2010, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and IMEC, Belgium. Next employment: Senior Scientist at the Department of Micro, Electro and Mechanical Systems of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Microelectronics, Technical University Delft, Netherlands.
Julien Nembrini, PhD in Robotics Engineering 2004, UWE, Bristol, UK. Next employment: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Media and Design Laboratory (Prof. J. Huang, EPFL); current employment: Maître Assistant, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Graduated PhD Students with Postdoctoral extension
Anwar Quraishi, PhD thesis 2021, EDRS. Next and current employment: Sensor Fusion Engineer, Fixposition AG, Zürich, Switzerland.
Faezeh Rahbar, PhD thesis 2021, EDRS. Next employment: Machine-Learning Engineer at Huawei Inc., Paris, France (remote operation). Current employment: Senior Deep Learning/AI Engineer at Illumina Inc., Paris, France.
Duarte Dias, PhD thesis 2018 joint IST-EPFL degree, EDRS and IST Doctoral Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering, co-supervision with Prof. P.U. Lima (IST, Lisbon, Portugal). Next employment: Flight Control Engineer, UAVenture AG, Aarau, Switzerland. Current employment: Sensor Fusion Engineer, U-blox AG, Thalwil, Switzerland.
Zeynab Talebpour, PhD thesis 2018, EDRS. Next employment: Research Fellow at Advanced Intelligent Systems Inc., Burnaby, BC, Canada and Postdoctoral Fellow at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Current employment: Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Kingfisher plc, UK.
Bahar Haghighat, PhD thesis 2018, EDRS. PhD Thesis recognized with the EDRS PhD Thesis Distinction 2018 and Gilbert Hausmann Award 2019. Next employment: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Self-Organizing Systems Research Group (Prof. R. Nagpal), Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. Current employment: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
Maria Boberg, PhD thesis 2016, EDRS, co-supervision with Dr. G. Feltrin (EMPA, Dübendorf, Switzerland). Next employment: Embedded Software Consultant at Sigma Technology Consulting Inc., Stockholm, Sweden; current employment: Senior Software Engineer at Swedish Space Corporation Inc., Solna, Sweden.
Adrian Arfire, PhD thesis 2016, EDRS. Next and current employment: Metrology Engineer at Airparif, Paris, France.
José Nuno Pereira, PhD thesis 2014, IST-EPFL joint degree, EDPR and IST Electrical and Computer Engineering, co-supervision with Prof. P. Lima (IST, Lisbon, Portugal). Next employment: Robotics Specialist at Aeolus Robotics Inc., Geneva, Switzerland (remote operation). Current employment: Research and Development Manager at SeeByte, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Ezequiel Di Mario, PhD thesis 2015, EDEE. Next and current employment: Robotics and Navigation Engineer, iRobot Inc., Pasadena, USA; current employment: Software Engineer at Google Inc., Pasadena, USA (remote operation).
Amanda Prorok, PhD thesis 2013, EDIC, PhD Thesis recipient of the ABB Award 2014. Next employment: Product Manager at Sensirion Inc., Stäfa, Switzerland; current employment: Professor of Collective Intelligence and Robotics, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK.
Thomas Lochmatter, PhD thesis 2010, EDIC, PhD Thesis nominated for the 2010 Chorafas Foundation Award. Next employment: Lecturer in the Computer Science section (SIN) for the environmental engineering section (SIE) at EPFL; Founder and CEO of the educational software company Wizzy Education Technologies S.A., Ecublens, Switzerland; current employment: Founder and CEO of LoThoSoft Lernsoftware GmbH, Brig-Glis, Switzerland. Founder and Technical Board Member of AirVeraCity Sàrl, Lausanne, Switzerland, a start-up having transferred DISAL technology to the field of air quality monitoring.
Pierre Roduit, PhD thesis 2009, EDPR, co-supervision with Prof. J. Jacot (EPFL). Next and current employment: Next and current employment: Professor of Computer Science, Director of the Institute for Energy and Environment, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sion, Switzerland.
Graduated PhD Students Without Postdoctoral Extension
Cyrill Baumann, PhD Thesis 2024, EDRS, PhD Thesis nominated for the EDRS PhD Thesis Distinction 2024 and for the ABB Award 2025. Next employment: TBA.
Chiara Ercolani, PhD Thesis 2024, EDRS, PhD Thesis nominated for the EDRS PhD Thesis Distinction 2024 and for the G. Hausmann Award 2024. Next employment: TBA.
Alicja Wąsik , PhD Thesis 2020 joint IST-EPFL degree, EDRS and IST Doctoral Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering, co-supervision with Prof. P.U.Lima (IST, Lisbon, Portugal). PhD Thesis recognized with the EDRS PhD Thesis Distinction 2020 and nominated for the 2022 ABB Award. Next and current employment: Team Leader for Data Science at Credit Suisse Inc., Wroclaw, Poland.
Steven Roelofsen, PhD Thesis 2017, EDRS, co-supervision with Dr. D. Gillet (EPFL). Next and current employment: Lead Data Scientist at Involi Inc., Wroclaw, Poland (remote operation).
Milos Vasic, PhD Thesis 2017, EDIC, PhD Thesis nominated for the 2018 ABB Award. Next employment: Senior Deep Learning Software Engineer at Vuforia Inc., Zurich, Switzerland. Current employment: Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle Labs, Zurich, Switzerland.
Jorge M. Soares, PhD Thesis 2016 joint IST-EPFL degree, EDRS and IST Doctoral Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering, co-supervision with Prof. A. M. Pascoal (IST, Lisbon, Portugal), and Prof. A.P. Aguiar (University of Porto, Porto, Portugal). Next employment: Patent Examiner at the European Patent Office, The Hague, Netherlands. Current employment: Research Program Manager at Protocol Labs, Porto, Portugal (remote operation).
William C. Evans, PhD Thesis 2015, EDIC. Next employment: Senior Software Engineer at Google Inc., Madison, WI, USA. Current employment: Engineer in Residence, Gradient Venture Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA.
Sven Gowal, PhD Thesis 2013, EDIC, PhD Thesis nominated for the 2014 ABB Award. Next employment: Software Engineer at Google Inc., Zurich, Switzerland. Current employment: Staff Research Engineer at Deep Mind Inc., London, UK.
Gregory Mermoud, PhD Thesis 2012, EDIC, co-supervision with Prof. J. Brugger (EPFL), PhD Thesis nominated for the 2013 IBM Award, runner-up of the 2013 Georges Giralt PhD Award – PhD Thesis selected for publication as a volume of the Springer Tracts in Advance Robotics series. Next employment: Software Engineer, Applied Research Team at Cisco Inc., Rolles, Switzerland. Current employment: Associate Professor of Computer Science and Machine Learning, HES-SO, Sion, Switzerland.
Chris Cianci, PhD Thesis 2009, EDIC. Next employment: Research Scientists at Applied Minds Inc., Glendale, CA, USA. Current employment: Co-founder of Giant.AI Inc., Glendale, CA, USA.
Jim Pugh, PhD Thesis 2008, EDIC. Next employment: Senior Analytics Engineer in the New Media Department of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C., USA; current employment: CEO of ShareProgress Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA.
Nikolaus Correll, PhD Thesis 2007, EDIC, PhD thesis nominated for the 2008 ABB Award. Next employment: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Distributed Robotics Laboratory (Prof. D. Rus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); current employment: Professor of Computer Science, Electrical Computer, and Energy Engineering Department, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA, and Founder and CEO of Robotics Materials Inc., Boulder, CO, USA.
Administrative Assistants
Erika Raetz, administrative assistant. Next employment with the Data-Intensive Applications and Systems Laboratory. Current employment: retired.
R&D Staff
Denis Rochat, IT manager. Next and current employment: retired.
Hugo Grall, Mechatronic Engineer. Next and current employment: Academic Assistant at the Institute of Industrial Automation, University of Applied Science, Yverdon, Switzerland (HEIG-VD).
Guillaume Jornod, Software Engineer. Next and current employment: PhD student at the Volkswagen Group Research, Wolfsburg, Germany and at the Institute for Communications Technology, Technical University Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany. Current employment: 5G/6G Research Engineer and 3GPP Delegate at Bosch Corporate Research, Hildesheim, Germany.
David Mansolino, Software Engineer. Next employment: Software Engineer at Cyberbotics Sàrl. Current employment: Automation Engineer Consultant at Expleo Group, currently at Bobst Inc., Morges, Switzerland.
Lorenzo Sarti, Software Engineer. Next employment: Software Engineer at ecoRobotix Sàrl, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. Current employment: Senior C++ Machine-Learning Engineer, Scanbot SDK, Bonn, Germany.
Christophe Paccolat, Mechatronic Engineer. Next employment: Research Assistant at the Engineering Space Center, EPFL. Current employment: Research Associate at the Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Yvan Bourquin, Software Engineer. Next employment: Software Engineer at Cyberbotics Sàrl, Lausanne, Switzerland. Current employment: Software Engineer at Pix4D SA, Prilly, Switzerland.
Pascal Gilbert, Mechatronic Engineer. Next employment: Mechatronic Engineer at Kuerzi Avionics AG, Lommis Switzerland. Current employment: Senior Engineer at Wingtra AG, Zurich, Switzerland.
Loic Matthey, Software Engineer. Next employment: PhD student at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit (Prof. P. Dayan) of the University College London. Current employment: Research Scientist at Deep Mind Inc., London, UK.
Xavier Raemy, Mechatronic Engineer. Next employment: R&D Electronic Engineer at EndoArt SA (now part of Allergan Inc.), Ecublens, Switzerland. Current employment: R&D engineer at SICPA Security Solutions SA, Prilly, Switzerland.
Olivier Michel, Software Engineer. Next and current employment: founder and full-time CEO of Cyberbotics Sàrl, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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