Prof. Dr. Niao He
Associate Professor
Faculty
Administration
Patrizia Napoli
Administrative Assistant
Senior researchers and postdocs
Dr. Zebang Shen
Senior Researcher
Dr. Bingcong Li
Postdoc
Dr. Ali Kavis
Senior Researcher (2026–)
Dr. Luca Viano
Postdoc (2026–)
PhD students
Xiang Li
PhD Student (2022–)
Florian Hübler
PhD Student (2024–)
Kai Lion
PhD Student (2024–)
Adrian Müller
PhD Student (2024–)
Chung-En Tsai
Direct Doctorate (2024–)
Artur Goldman
ETH AI Center Doctoral Fellow (2024–), co-mentored with Prof. M. Khammash
Andrey Kharitenko
NCCR Automation Doctoral Fellow (2024–), co-mentored with Prof. F. Doerfler
Erya Guo
PhD Student (2026–)
Annalisa Barbara
PhD Student (2026–)
Co-supervised PhD students
Jiduan Wu
CLS Doctoral Fellow (2023–), co-advised with Prof. M. Hardt (MPI)
Riccardo De Santi
ETH AI Center Doctoral Fellow (2023–), co-mentored with Prof. A. Krause and Prof. K. Jorner
Alumni
| Name | Role at ODI | Next position |
|---|---|---|
| Ilyas Fatkhullin | ETH AI Center Doctoral Fellow 2021–2026 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University |
| Vinzenz Thoma | ETH AI Center Doctoral Fellow 2022–2026 | Postdoctoral Fellow, EPFL |
| Liang Zhang | Ph.D. 2026, CLS Doctoral Fellow | Tencent, China |
| Dr. Ya-Ping Hsieh | Postdoc 2024–2026 | Research Fellow, Academia Sinica |
| Batuhan Yardim | Ph.D. 2026 | Jane Street Capital, UK |
| Jiawei Huang | Ph.D. 2026 | Qwen, China |
| Anas Barakat | Postdoc 2022–2024 | Research Fellow, Singapore University of Technology and Design |
| Pragnya Alatur | ETH AI Center Student 2021–2024 | OpenAI, UK |
| Giorgia Ramponi | ETH AI Center Postdoc 2021–2023 | Assistant Professor, University of Zurich |
| Junchi Yang | Ph.D. 2023 | Assistant Professor, CUHK-Shenzhen |
| Semih Cayci | Postdoc 2022 | Assistant Professor, RWTH Aachen |
| Yifan Hu | Ph.D. 2022 | Postdoctoral Fellow, EPFL |
| Siqi Zhang | Ph.D. 2022 | Assistant Professor, Nanjing University |
| Donghwan Lee | Postdoc 2020 | Assistant Professor, KAIST |
| Yingxiang Yang | Ph.D. 2020 | Research Scientist, ByteDance, USA |
| Shen Yan | M.S. 2020 | Quantitative Researcher, Black Wing, China |
| Ailing Zhang | M.S. 2017 | Software Engineer, Facebook AI Research, USA |