Officemates

Through the years, I had the chance to share office space with great people that inspired me a lot and with who I had the chance to spend amazing time in (and sometimes out of) the office! Below is a non-exhaustive list (by chronological order of appearance):

At ETH Zurich:

• Jan Funke (Group Leader at HHMI Janelia Research Campus)
• Thanuja Ambegoda (Co-founder of Enway)
• Stephan Gerhardt (Postdoc at FMI Basel and create of mobile-apps)
• Marc Oswald (Co-founder of Insightness recently acquired by SONY)
• Lorenz Mueller (ex-IBM, now Senior Researcher at Huawei)
• Federico Corradi (Senior Researcher at IMEC)
• Ning Qiao (Scientist at Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH/ETH Zurich and Cofounder of AICortex now SynSense)

At Stanford:

• Robert Konrad (Cofounder of Zinn labs)
• Nitish Padmanaban (Cofounder of Zinn labs)
• Vincent Sitzmann (Postdoctoral Research Fellow at MIT-CSAIL)

Doctoral fathers

A bit of genealogy!

If you have ever been curious to know who your doctoral [grand-]*fathers are, and you are lucky enough to be in STEM, then you probably consulted the Mathematics Genealogy Project (if not, you should and you might realize you are in the same line as Euler, Lagrange, Fourier, Dirichlet, Lipschitz or Hilbert!) Interestingly, I am not one of those 118 877 grand children Euler had. Instead I am part of what seems to be a relatively small (american) connected component of the graph! Also my tree is not very wide (most students in it, had a single advisor apart from 1. Joe Goodman, and 2. Vannevar Bush).