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Career

· Chief Scientist, The Walt Disney Studios2022–
· Director, Disney Research Studios2018–
· Vice President of Global Research and Development, The Walt Disney Company2016–2018
· Vice President of Research, The Walt Disney Company2013–2016
· Director of the Institute of Computational Science, ETH Zurich2004–2008
· Professor, ETH Zurich1997–
· Assistant Professor, ETH Zurich1994–1997
· Head of Computer Graphics Laboratory, ETH Zurich1994–
· Research Scientist, Technical University of Darmstadt1990–1994
· Ph.D. in Computer Graphics and Image Analysis, Saarland University1989–
· Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Saarland University1986–

Publications (74)

Towards better understanding of gradient-based attribution methods for Deep Neural Networks
International Conference on Learning Representations · 2017
964
cited
Explaining Deep Neural Networks with a Polynomial Time Algorithm for Shapley Values Approximation
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2019
255
cited
Gradient-Based Attribution Methods
Explainable AI · 2019
173
cited
Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Student Modeling
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies · 2017
162
cited
A unified view of gradient-based attribution methods for Deep Neural Networks
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2017
148
cited
Two-scale particle simulation
ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2011
145
cited
Learning-Based Sampling for Natural Image Matting
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2019
134
cited
Design and evaluation of the computer-based training program Calcularis for enhancing numerical cognition
Frontiers in Psychology · 2013
98
cited
Computer-based multisensory learning in children with developmental dyslexia
Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience · 2007
72
cited
A Network Architecture for Point Cloud Classification via Automatic Depth Images Generation
2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2018
69
cited
Beyond Knowledge Tracing: Modeling Skill Topologies with Bayesian Networks
International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems · 2014
68
cited
Computer-based learning of spelling skills in children with and without dyslexia
Annals of Dyslexia · 2011
64
cited
Neural Sequential Phrase Grounding (SeqGROUND)
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2019
54
cited
Deep Video Color Propagation
British Machine Vision Conference · 2018
51
cited
Lossy Image Compression with Normalizing Flows
arXiv.org · 2020
50
cited
ReNeRF: Relightable Neural Radiance Fields with Nearfield Lighting
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision · 2023
37
cited
How I Warped Your Noise: a Temporally-Correlated Noise Prior for Diffusion Models
International Conference on Learning Representations · 2025
35
cited
Temporally Coherent Clustering of Student Data
Educational Data Mining · 2016
31
cited
When to stop?: towards universal instructional policies
International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge · 2016
30
cited
Controllable Inversion of Black-Box Face Recognition Models via Diffusion
2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW) · 2023
28
cited
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