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Firat completed his undergraduate studies in Electronics Engineering at Sabanci University. He later received his MSc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from EPFL. He conducted his doctoral studies on medical image segmentation in Computer Vision Lab at ETH Zurich. In between, he visited INRIA (Sophia Antipolis, France) and ABB Corporate Research Center (Baden, Switzerland). His research interests revolve around computer vision and machine learning, with a focus on the medical domain. He has been with SDSC since 2019.

Before joining the SDSC as a Data Scientist in April 2023, Alessandro obtained his master’s degree in Computer Science with a focus on Machine Learning from ETH Zurich. In his master’s thesis, he worked on a joint project by the SDSC and the SLF Davos in which he automated the process of avalanche danger forecasting in the Swiss Alps using state-of-the-art machine learning techniques. In his free time, Alessandro loves alpine sports like ski-touring, climbing, and mountaineering.

Luis is originally from Spain, where he completed his bachelor's studies in Electrical engineering, and the Ms.C. on signal theory and communications, both at the University of Seville. During his Ph.D. he started focusing on machine learning methods, more specifically message passing techniques for channel coding, and Bayesian methods for channel equalization. He carried it out between the University of Seville and the University Carlos III in Madrid, also spending some time at the EPFL, Switzerland, and Bell Labs, USA, where he worked on advanced techniques for optical channel coding. When he completed his Ph.D. in 2013, he moved to the Luxembourg Center on Systems Biomedicine, where he switched his interest to neuroscience, neuroimaging, life sciences, etc., and the application of machine learning techniques to these fields. During his 4 and a half years there as a Postdoc, he worked on many different problems as a data scientist, encompassing topics such as microscopy image analysis, neuroimaging, single-cell gene expression analysis, etc. He joined the SDSC in April 2018.  As Lead Data Scientist, Luis coordinates projects in various domains. Several projects focus on the application of natural language processing and knowledge graphs to the study of different phenomena in social and political sciences. In the domains of architecture and engineering, Luis is responsible for projects centered on the application of novel generative methods to parametric modeling. Finally, Luis also coordinates different projects in robotics, ranging from collaborative robotic construction to deformable object manipulation.

Mathieu Salzmann is the Head of Engineering and the Deputy Head of Research at the Swiss Data Science Center, while also serving as a Senior Scientist and Lecturer at EPFL. He received his PhD from EPFL in 2009 and, between 2009 and 2015, has held post-doctoral and researcher positions at UC Berkeley, TTI-Chicago, and NICTA and the Australian National University. From May 2020 to February 2024, he was also a part-time Senior GNC Engineer at ClearSpace. Mathieu Salzmann has broad interests in machine learning and deep learning, with a particular focus on computer vision. He has published over 100 articles at top-tier peer-reviewed machine learning and computer vision venues and is a strong believer in collaborative work.