Head

Gerard Pons-Moll

Administrative Assistant

Jessi Endress

Research Leaders and Postdoctoral Researchers

Jan Eric Lenssen
Collaborating Research Leader at MPI-Informatics
István Sárándi
March'23 - x

PhD Students

Niklas Berndt
September'24 - x
Yue Chen
July'23 - x
(Jointly supervised with Yuliang Xiu)
Julian Chibane
March'20 - x
Yannan He
November'22 - x
Berna Kabadayi
April'22 - x
(Jointly supervised with Justus Thies)
Nikita Kister
April'22 - x
(Jointly supervised with Anna Khoreva)
Chuqiao Li
July'23 - x
(Jointly supervised with Prof. Dr. Andreas Geiger and Dr. Seong Joon Oh)
Namma Pearl
July'23 - x
(Jointly supervised with Prof. Dr. Andreas Geiger and Dr. Seong Joon Oh)
Ilya A. Petrov
May'21 - x
(Internship at Meta)
Andrea Sanchietti
December'24 - x
Xianghui Xie
April'23 - x
Yuxuan Xue
July'22 - x
(Internship at Meta)

Visiting PhD Students

Pol Caselles
November'23 - x
PhD at Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial
Youwang Kim
October'23 - March'24
PhD at POSTECH
Purva Tendulkar
June'24 - September'24
PhD at Columbia University

Former Postdoctoral and Affiliated Researchers

Riccardo Marin
Now at CVG,TUM

Former PhD Students

Thiemo Alldieck
2020: Co-supervised PhD with M. Magnor, TU-Braunschweig.
Summa Cum Laude
Now at Google Zurich
Bharat Lal Bhatnagar
2023: Graduated from Saarland University with Summa Cum Laude.
Now at Meta-Zurich
Vladimir Guzov
Now at Apple
Verica Lazova
Aymen Mir
Now at KAUST
Garvita Tiwari
Xiaohan Zhang
Keyang Zhou
Timo von Marcard
2019: Co-supervised PhD with B. Rosenhahn, University of Hannover. Summa Cum Laude .
Now at Simi

Current Master/Bachelor Students

  • Batuhan Ozcomlecki, March'24-, 3D Gaussian Splatting for human modeling, [Master's thesis]
  • Agniv Sharma, May'24-, Text to 3D Human Object Interaction, [Master's thesis]
  • Frieder Wallner, Sept.'24-, Blending human into the scene with realistic rendering, [Bachelor's thesis]
  • Junyu Zhang, Dec'24-, Physics-enhanced human object and scene modelling, [Research Project]
  • César Díaz Blanco, Jan'25-, Clothing Apperance Modeling, [Research Project]
  • Daniel Eskandar, Jan'25-, Multi-layer Gaussian Splatting for Avatars, [Research Project]

    • Former Master/Bachelor Students and Interns

  • Mattia Masiero, April'25, Ordered Point Cloud Diffusion for 3D Human Registration, [Master's thesis]
  • Dennis Perret, April'25, Holistic hand object interaction and appearance modelling, [Master's thesis]
  • Samuel Zink, December'24, Open Vocabulary 3D Clothing Segmentation, [Bachelor's thesis]
  • Yunhan Wang, WS24-25, Exploring the generalization of human reconstruction from point clouds, [ML practicum]
  • Daniel Eskandar, WS24-25, Dynamic Gaussian Visualizer, [ML practicum]
  • Margaret Kostyrko, Nov'24, 3D generative model for humans, [Bachelor's thesis]
  • César Díaz Blanco, WS24-25, Dynamic Gaussian Visualizer, [ML practicum]
  • Enes Duran, SS24, SMPL augmentation library, [ML practicum]
  • Mattia Masiero, SS24, SMPL augmentation library, [ML practicum]
  • Tuan Tran, September'24, Distilling Pretrained Diffusion Priors for Object Animation, [Master's thesis]
  • Han Cheng, Aug'24, Connecting human motion with visual language modeling, [Bachelor's thesis]
  • Yunus Saracoglu, September'23, Contact prediction from wearable sensors, [Bachelor's thesis]
  • Janik Jehkul, April'23, Spatial Constraints on Diffusion Models, [Bachelor's thesis]
  • Shuo Wen, January'23, 3D Generation of Humans, [Master's thesis]
  • Dimitrije Antic, January'23, 3D Clothing Segmentation, [Now PhD student at University of Amsterdam]
  • Yun Kuan Su, May'23-September'23, Matching/representation of partial point clouds, [HiWi]
  • Xianghui Xie, December'22, Capturing Human Object Interaction from Single RGB Camera, [Now PhD Student at RVH group]
  • Julian Chibane, February'20, Implicit Functions in Feature Space for 3D Shape Reconstruction and Completion, [Now PhD Student at RVH group]
  • Chaitanya Patel, October'19, Predicting Clothing in 3D as a Function of Human Pose, Shape and Garment Style, [Now PhD student at Stanford University]
  • Zhou Liao, August'19, Predicting Clothing in 3D as a Function of Human Pose, Shape and Garment Style, [Now PhD student at HKU]