Publications: 'Matérn Kernels for Tunable Implicit Surface Reconstruction', 'Generalizable 3D Scene Reconstruction via Divide and Conquer from a Single View', 'iRBSM: A Deep Implicit 3D Breast Shape Model', 'Capturing Complexity of the Foot Arch Bones: Evaluation of a Statistical Modelling Framework for Learning Shape, Pose and Intensity Features in a Continuous Domain', 'Harnessing multimodal approaches for depression detection using large language models and facial expressions', 'Facing depression: evaluating the efficacy of the EmpkinS-EKSpression reappraisal training augmented with facial expressions – protocol of a randomized controlled trial', '3D Face Reconstruction From Radar Images'.
Research Experience
Current Position: Junior Professor (adidas Stiftungsprofessur) at the Chair of Visual Computing, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Previously, Postdoc at Josh Tenenbaum's Computational Cognitive Science Lab and Polina Golland's group at MIT CSAIL, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines (CBMM).
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Basel, focusing on facial image annotation and interpretation in unconstrained images; M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Basel; Upper secondary school teaching Diploma from the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland.
Background
Research Interests: How humans and machines can perceive faces and shapes; Professional Field: Statistical shape models and 3D Morphable Models; Introduction: Simulates the image formation process with computer graphics and approaches the inverse problem in an analysis-by-synthesis manner.
Miscellany
Personal Interests: Involved in AI art project AI-Experiment