Our Team
We are a diverse group of researchers working at the intersection of neuroscience, machine learning, and computer vision.
Principal Investigator
Alexander Mathis
Assistant Professor
Alexander Mathis is an Assistant Professor at EPFL. He holds a Diplom in Mathematics and a PhD from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (with Prof. Andreas Herz). He was a postdoc with Prof. Venkatesh N. Murthy at Harvard University and Prof. Matthias Bethge at Tuebingen AI.
PhD Students
Haozhe Qi
PhD Student
3D pose estimation & modeling humans
Valentin Gabeff
PhD Student
WildAI
Co-supervised with Prof. Devis Tuia
Sepideh Mamooler
PhD Student
Behavior understanding with NLP
Co-supervised with Prof. Antoine Bosselut
Andy Bonnetto
PhD Student
Measuring naturalistic human behavior and linking it to brain function
Merkourios Simos
PhD Student
Proprioception, sensorimotor control and learning
Bianca Ziliotto
PhD Student
Proprioception and sensorimotor control
Lab Administration
Pauline Stehli
Lab Administration
Lab Alumni
Maxim Pavliv
Research: All things software, including DeepLabCut
Also works in M.W. Mathis lab
Lucas Stoffl
Research: Behavioral analysis
Graduated Spring 2025
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell Weill
Alessandro Marin Vargas
Research: Modeling the sensorimotor pathway
Graduated Spring 2025
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford
Alberto Chiappa
Research: Reinforcement learning for motor control
Graduated Spring 2025
Now: Flexion Robotics
Mu Zhou
Research: Pose estimation and ReID
Graduated Fall 2025
Now: Zoo Zurich
Adriana Perez Rotondo
Research: Modeling and theory for sensorimotor circuits
Niels Poulsen
Research: All things software
Also worked in M.W. Mathis lab
Group Photos
Lab Retreat 2025
Joint lab retreat with Mackenzie’s team
Mini golf
Minigolf outing in 2023