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
- A Practical Guide to Format Your References
How to format bibliography entries for our papers.
- A Practical Guide to Writing your First Paper(s)
Methods, habits, and small tricks to write clearer and more effective papers.
- Project Guide
Everything you need to know to complete your thesis or semester project at DISCO.
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