People

Head of Lab

Dr. Diego Paez-Granados

Head of Spinal Cord Injury & Artificial Intelligence Lab at ETHZ | SPZ, Nottwil

Project Coordinator and Administrative Assistant

Ai Sullivan

Project Coordinator and Administrative Assistant

Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Jorge Peña

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Oriella Gnarra

Postdoctoral Researcher

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

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

Research Assistants

Sabrina Amrein

Health Science Specialist | Study Coordinator

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Cristina Arenas

Robotics Engineer

Bertram Fuchs

Machine Learning and Medical Data Modelling

Thomas Weikert

Neurorehabilitation and Medical Data Engineering

Alan Paul

Data Engineering and Computer Vision

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Heba Hussein

Biosensing and Data Engineer

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Adriele Rocha

UI and Data Engineer

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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

Scientific Advisors

KD. Dr. med. PhD Inge Eriks-Hoogland

Autonomic Dysregulation and Outpatient Care Partner , Head of Outpatient care unit, SPZ

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Nottwil Campus

KD. Dr. med. PhD Anke Scheel-Sailer

Pressure Injuries and Inpatient Care Partner, Senior Consultant of Inpatient care unit, SPZ

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Nottwil Campus

Dr. Giulia Da Poian

Biomedical Signal Processing and Mobile Health Partner, Group Leader: MoodAI at ETH Zürich

Administrative Assistant

Diana Siedler

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Master's in Robotics, ETH Zurich

Sensor Fusion and Scene Understanding

Master's in Mechanics, D-MAVT

Robust Classification of the Activities of Daily Living

Master's in Information Technology, D-ITET

Learning Patterns in Bladder Time Series Measurements

Bachelor's in Mechanics, D-MAVT

Wheelchair Design and Control

Master's in Robotics, OST

Shared Control for Wheelchairs

Master's in Health Science and Technology, D-HEST

Gait Metrics in SCI Outpatient Life

Master's in Health Science - D-HEST

Wheelchair Ergonomics and Design Evaluation

Parham Rahimi,

Bachelor's School of Computation, Information and Technology, TU Münich

Adaptive Control for Wheelchair Navigation

Masters' Alumni:

MSc. Bertram Fuchs, "Autonomic Dysregulation Episode Detection in SCI through Robust Feature Selection from Multi-Modal Wearable Sensing", Master's in Neuroengineering, TU Münich

M.Sc. Eshaan Mudgal, "Clustering Biomechanical Gait Metrics and Time-series Gait Patterns", D-ITET, ETH Zürich

M.Sc. Nishendra Singh, "Robot Biosignal Communications and Modelling for Assistive Environments", D-MAVT, ETH Zürich

M.Sc. Binlan Wu, "Graphical Modelling of Spinal Cord Injury Co-morbidities", Master's Mathematics in Operations Research, TU Münich

M.Sc. Emile Messleken, "Computer Vision based Action Recognition, Master's in Robotics, Cognition and Intelligence", TU Münich

M.Sc. Carlos Guija, " Omnidirectional Autonomous Wheelchair with Assistive Driving", D-MAVT, ETH Zürich