Postdoctoral Fellows
Inaki Navarro, PhD in Automation and Robotics 2010, UPM, Madrid, Spain. Next and current employment: Software Engineer at Advertima Inc., St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Andreas Breitenmoser, PhD in Mechanical and Process Engineering 2013, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Next employment: Postodoctoral 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: Assistant 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
Maria Boberg, PhD Thesis 2016, EDRS, co-supervision with Dr. G. Feltrin (EMPA, Dübendorf, Switzerland). Next and current employment: independent researcher involved in multiple Swedish industrial competitions.
Adrian Arfire, PhD Thesis 2016, EDRS. Next and current employment: Metrology Engineer specialized in IoT 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 and current employment: Robotic Specialist at Aeolus Robotics Inc., San Francisco, USA.
Ezequiel Di Mario, PhD thesis 2015, EDEE. Next and current employment: Robotics and Navigation Engineer, iRobot Inc., Pasadena, USA.
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: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at 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.
Pierre Roduit, PhD thesis 2009, EDPR, co-supervision with Prof. J. Jacot (EPFL). Next and current employment: Professor of Computer Science, Institute of Systems Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sion, Switzerland.
Graduated PhD Students without postdoctoral extension
Steven Roelofsen, PhD thesis 2017, EDRS, co-supervision with Dr. D. Gillet (EPFL). Next and current employment: Mechatronic Engineer at OneSky Sàrl, Renens, Switzerland.
Milos Vasic, PhD thesis 2017, EDIC, PhD Thesis nominated for the 2018 ABB Award. Next and current employment: Senior Deep Learning Software Engineer at Vuforia Inc., 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 and current employment: Patent Examiner at the European Patent Office, The Hague, Netherlands.
William C. Evans, PhD thesis 2015, EDIC. Next and current employment: Senior Software Engineer at Google Inc., Madison, WI, 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: Senior Software 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: Senior Software Engineer and Senior Technical Team Leader at Cisco Inc., Rolles, Switzerland.
Chris Cianci, PhD thesis 2009, EDIC. Next employment: Research Scientists at Applied Minds 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 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: Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department with courtesy appointments at the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering and the Department of Aerospace Engineering of the University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA.
Administrative Assistants
Erika Raetz, now with the Data-Intensive Applications and Systems Laboratory
R&D Staff
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.
Khash-Erdene Jalsan, Research Assistant. Next and current employment: Software Engineer at DecentLab GmbH
David Mansolino, Software Engineer. Next and current employment: Software Engineer at Cyberbotics Sàrl.
Lorenzo Sarti, Software Engineer. Next and current employment: Software Engineer at ecoRoboticx Sàrl, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland,
Christophe Paccolat, Mechatronic Engineer. Next and current employment: PhD student at the Signal Processing Laboratory (Prof. J.-Ph. Thiran) and Engineering Space center, EPFL.
Yvan Bourquin, Software Engineer. Next employment: Software Engineer at Cyberbotics Sàrl.
Pascal Gilbert, Mechatronic Engineer. Next employment: Mechatronic Engineer at Kuerzi Avionics AG, Lommis 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.
Olivier Michel, Software Engineer. Next and current employment: founder and full-time CEO of Cyberbotics Sàrl.
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