Dr. sc. ETH Zurich — Senior Computer Vision & Machine Learning Engineer
Sunnyvale, CA, USA · German Citizenship · US Permanent Resident (Greencard)
Senior Computer Vision and Machine Learning Engineer with expertise in geometric vision, large-scale AI systems, and computational imaging. My work spans multi-sensor calibration, 3D perception, optimization, and modern generative AI, combining geometric methods (camera calibration, multi-view geometry, factor graphs, nonlinear optimization) with deep learning for object detection, pose estimation, neural rendering, and vision-language models.
I received my PhD from ETH Zurich (Autonomous Systems Lab, Prof. Roland Siegwart), following master's thesis research at NASA JPL on vision-based navigation systems that contributed to the Mars Ingenuity helicopter program. My software has been deployed in production systems, including autonomous warehouse navigation (SevenSense, acquired by ABB) and search-and-rescue operations for Swiss Air Rescue (Rega). At Apple, I developed computer vision and calibration algorithms for Apple Vision Pro and have more recently worked on differential ray tracing through complex optical systems, Gaussian splatting, and diffusion models. My research has been cited more than 1,500 times. I have served as Associate Editor for IROS (2021–2026) and as a reviewer for CVPR, ICCV, BMVC, ICRA, RA-L, and IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
