Invited Talks & Keynotes

DateTitleVenue
Sep 2026Digital Einstein: Bringing Einstein Back to Life — Public talkNZZ Festival Lounge, Zurich Film Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
Aug 2026Wie KI Einstein zum Leben erweckt — Short lectureScientifica, Zurich, Switzerland
Jun 2026Generative AI in Action: Meet Digital Einstein — KeynoteDARIAH-CH event Generative AI for GLAM Institutions: Opportunity or Risk?, ETH Library & infoclio.ch (online)
May 2026The Rise of AI Avatars: Potential for Teaching & Education — KeynoteEduAI Summit 2026, Switzerland Innovation Park Ost, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Jan 2026AI Literacy and the Future of Work — Panel discussion (organised by digitalswitzerland)World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
Nov 2025Beyond Avatars — Panel discussionBerlin Science Week, Berlin, Germany
Oct 2025The Creation of Believable Digital Characters — KeynoteInVirtuo 4.0 Network Workshop, Bonn, Germany
Oct 2025A Platform for Interactive AI Character Experiences — Invited talkGITEX Global, Dubai, UAE
Nov 2024Digital Einstein – Bringing Einstein Back to Life — Invited talkSwiss Re Resilience Summit, Rüschlikon, Switzerland
Oct 2024The Creation of Believable Digital Characters — KeynoteGITEX Global, Dubai, UAE
Sep 2023Digital Character AI — Invited talkIntelligent Content Creation Tools for AR/VR Workshop, Seoul, Korea
Jun 2023Digital Character AI — Invited talkLandesgymnasium Sankt Afra, Meissen, Germany
Nov 2022Digital Character AI – Making Einstein Alive Again — Invited talkInsights in Technology Conference, Bremen, Germany
Jun 2021Digital Einstein — Invited talkIntelligent Content Creation Tools for AR/VR Workshop, Ascona, Switzerland

Workshops Organised

DateTitleVenue
Oct 2025Interactive Human-centric Foundation Models — Co-OrganizerInternational Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Honolulu, USA
Oct 2024Artificial Intelligence for Digital Characters — OrganizerGITEX Global, Dubai, UAE
Sep 2024Foundation Models for 3D Humans — Co-OrganizerEuropean Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshop, Milano, Italy

Guest Lectures

YearsCourseInstitution
2026Parallel Programming (Spring)ETH Zurich
2023–2024Digital Humans (Spring)ETH Zurich
2022–2024Visual Computing (Fall)ETH Zurich
2022Mobile Health and Activity Monitoring (Spring)ETH Zurich
2021Machine Learning for Behavioral Data (Spring)EPFL Lausanne
2021Parallel Programming (Spring)ETH Zurich
2020–2021Ubiquitous Computing (Spring)ETH Zurich