We are a group of researchers and engineers in industry and academia all based in Zurich. If you would like to present at an upcoming event or have any questions you can reach us at info@zurich-nlp.ch.

Aleksander Ficek

Aleks is a Senior Research Engineer at NVIDIA working on the NeMo team. His current work involves bridging the gap between research and engineering in different LLM products. He is also focused on research in retrieval augmented language models and parameter efficient fine tuning.

Clara Meister

Clara is a third year PhD student with Ryan Cotterell at ETH Zürich. She received her B.S. and M.S. from Stanford University in Computational and Mathematical Engineering. Her research interests include language generation, psycholinguistics, and the general application of information theory and statistics to NLP.

Florian Cäsar

Florian is an NLP practitioner, software engineer and startup founder who sold his fintech NLP startup last year. After leading ML at the acquirer, he is now crafting an IDE for instructing AI. Previously, Florian created an educational machine learning framework, published an indie puzzle game and worked on distributed consensus algorithms.

Alexander Henkes

Alexander is a Postdoc under the ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship at ETH Zürich. He won the best PhD award from TU Braunschweig for his work on scientific machine learning for continuum micromechanics. His research interests include deep learning methods for applied mathematics and engineering with focus on discontinuous partial differential equations and their applications.

Ayca Takmaz

Ayca is a PhD student at ETH Zurich in the field of computer vision and augmented reality, supervised by Prof. Bob Sumner and Prof. Siyu Tang in the Department of Computer Science. Her research interests mainly lie in 3D scene understanding and language-guided 3D vision for augmented reality and robotics applications.

Alessio Rimoldi

Alessio is a PhD candidate in Robotics, supervised by John Lygeros at ETH Zürich. His research interests are focused mainly on Reinforcement Learning agents, Autonomous Driving, Perception and Optimal Control theory. He’s currently CTO at Unjam, his first tech company working in the smart mobility industry.