Our Team
Head of Lab
Dr. Diego Paez-Granados
Head of Spinal Cord Injury & Artificial Intelligence Lab at ETHZ | SPZ, Nottwil

Steering Committee
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Robert Riener
Head of SMS-lab, ETH Zurich, Project co-PI and scientific lead partner

Prof. Dr. Med. Jürgen Pannek
Head of Neuro-Urology at SPZ, Project co-PI and medical lead partner

Lab Coordinator
Ai Sullivan
Project Coordinator and Administrative Assistant

Postdoctoral Researchers



Doctoral Candidates
Yanke Li
Causal Inference and Statistical Modelling Researcher

Mehdi Ejtehadi
Wearable Sensing and ML-driven Fusion Researcher

Dominik Wojcikiewicz
Perception and Sensor Fusion Researcher

Rashid Alyassi
Researcher in Learning for Social Navigation

Shreyasvi Natraj
Researcher in Advanced Neural Networks

Research Assistants


Elisa Du




Thomas Weikert
Neurorehabilitation and Medical Data Engineering

Visiting Researchers
Dr. Chen Yang
Researcher in Human-Robot Interaction and Shared Control

Sergio Galindo
Researcher in Gait Analysis and Assistive Robotics

Itilekha Podder
Researcher in Machine Learning for Signal Processing

Dr. Ana Cisnal
Researcher in Machine Learning for Signal Processing

Scientific Advisors
KD. Dr. med. PhD Inge Eriks-Hoogland
Autonomic Dysregulation and Outpatient Care Partner , Head of Outpatient care unit, SPZ
Nottwil Campus

KD. Dr. med. PhD Anke Scheel-Sailer
Pressure Injuries and Inpatient Care Partner, Senior Consultant of Inpatient care unit, SPZ
Nottwil Campus

Dr. Giulia Da Poian
Biomedical Signal Processing and Mobile Health Partner, Group Leader: MoodAI at ETH Zürich

Administrative Assistant
Diana Siedler
