Teaching

Teaching assistant & project supervision as part of the Distributed Computing Group at ETH Zürich, for Prof. Roger Wattenhofer.

Seminar in Deep Neural Networks Spring 2025Spring 2026
Hands-on Deep Learning Fall 2024
Discrete Event Systems Fall 2024

Guides

Project Supervision 24 projects w/ co-supervisor

Current

Semester project Nassim Beladel · LLMs and Political Semantics
Semester project Nandor Kofarago · Byte Latent Transformers for Audio w/ Luca Lanzendörfer
Guided research Leo Schmidt-Traub · Codec Translation w/ Luca Lanzendörfer
Semester project Johanna Dciofalo · Embedding Political Opinions
Bachelor's thesis Liv Weiss · Questions Similarity in Voting Advice Applications w/ Damien Berriaud
Guided research Peer Rheinboldt · Recursive Reasoning
Master's thesis Aleksander Lorenc · Unleashing Forward Thinking in Language Models w/ Joël Mathys

Fall 2025

Bachelor's thesis Leonardo Rugli · Internet of AI Agents (NANDA)
Semester project Isotta Magistrali · Subliminal Signals in LLM Judgment w/ Samuel Dauncey

Spring 2025

Bachelor's thesis Antonis Asonitis-Spyridon · Beyond Deepfake Detection w/ Luca Lanzendörfer
Master's thesis René Cáky · Alignment-Aware Decoding w/ Luca Lanzendörfer
Bachelor's thesis Kaan Bayraktar · Data Attribution via Bidirectional Gradient Optimization w/ Luca Lanzendörfer
Master's thesis Johanna Dciofalo · PoliSpace: Representing Political Questions and Opinions in a Shared Embedding Space
Bachelor's thesis Elias Hug · Failing at Basic Visual Perception but Solving Complex Visual Tests? Evaluating Fundamental Visual Perception Skills of VLMs on Synthetic Datasets w/ Andreas Plesner
Bachelor's thesis Hugo Posada Saiz · Benchmarking LLM Sampling Strategies w/ Andreas Plesner
Bachelor's thesis Tilman Sieber · Ranking Movies with LLMs w/ Luca Lanzendörfer
Master's thesis Yann Billeter · Simulating Democracy: Technical Feasibility and Policy Perspectives w/ Yann Vonlanthen
Bachelor's thesis Peer Rheinboldt · Steering Pretrained Drafters during Speculative Decoding w/ Benjamin Estermann
Semester project Nick Tuninga · Text-to-Scene using Large Reasoning Models w/ Luca Lanzendörfer
Master's thesis Shiduo Xin · Mixture of Recursion and Experts w/ Samuel Dauncey

Fall 2024

Master's thesis Leo Neubecker · CAST: Conditional Adaption with Soft Tokens
Semester project Niklas Pohl · Recommender Systems for Politics w/ Yann Vonlanthen
Master's thesis Pierre Dorge · Enhanced Volatility Forecasting and Regime Detection for Options Trading Using HAR Models and Spectral Clustering w/ Rudy Delacour

Spring 2024

Master's thesis Dustin Brunner · Toward Robust Voting Advice Applications: Lessons from Smartvote w/ Yann Vonlanthen