Mathis Lab Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellows:
2018 - 2019: Tanmay Nath, PhD (now a Senior Data Scientist at Integrate) —> see Nath, Mathis et al 2019 Nature Protocols
2018 - 2020: Gary Kane, PhD (now a Quantitative Scientist at Osmind) —> see Kane et al 2020 eLife
2020 - 2021: Asim Iqbal, PhD (now a Machine Learning Advisor at LAAM) —> see Achard et al. 2024 eLife
2021 - 2022: Martyna Stachaczyk, PhD | co-advised by Prof. Olaf Blanke (now an Associate Editor at Springer Nature Group)
2022 - 2024: Markus Frey, PhD —> see Achard et al. 2024 eLife, Schneider et al. 2025 AISTATS, Frey et al. 2024 zenodo
2020 - 2024: Jessy Lauer, PhD (now a co-founder at Fxy AI) —> see Lauer et al. 2022 Nature Methods, Mathis et al 2020 Neuron, Ye et al. 2023 NeurIPS, Ye et al 2024 Nature Communications
PhD Students:
2019 - 2024: 🦓 Steffen Schneider, PhD (now Group Leader at Helmholtz AI Munich) —> see Schneider*, Lee*, Mathis 2023 Nature, Schneider et al. 2025 AISTATS, Mathis et al. 2020 Neuron, Ye et al. 2024 Nature Communications, Lauer et al. 2022 Nature Methods, … , DeWolf*, Schneider* et al. 2024!
PhD Dissertation: Robust machine learning for neuroscientific inference
2020 - 2025: 👾🐭 Sebastien Hausmann, PhD —> see Hausmann et al. 2021 Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Achard et al. 2024 eLife, & more coming!
PhD Dissertation: Mice Use Prediction Errors to Adapt to Visuomotor Perturbations in Virtual Reality
Masters Students:
2018: Adrian Roggenbach (ne, Hoffman), MSc (now at ETH-Z, PhD student) -> see DeWolf*, Schneider* et al 2024!
2019: Kai Sandbrink, MSc (now at Oxford, PhD student) —> see Sandbrink et al 2023 eLife!
2021: Valentin Bruttin, MSc (now at Nanolive, ML Engineer)
2020 - 2022: Jin H Lee, MSc (now at UCL, PhD student) —> see Schneider*, Lee*, Mathis 2023 Nature!
2022: Margaret Lane, MSc (now at EPFL, PhD student)
2022 - 2023: Rodrigo González Laiz, MSc (now at Helmholtz AI, PhD student) —> see Schneider, González Laiz, Filipova, Frey, Mathis 2025!
2023 - 2024: Anastasiia Filippova, MSc (now, Intern at Apple in CA) -> See Ye et al 2024 Nature Communications & Schneider et al 2025 AISTATS!
Research Assistants/Undergraduates:
2017 - 2018: Melony Tong (now MD, Orthopedic Surgery Resident Physician NYU)
2018 - 2020: Thomas Biasi (now Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services) —> see Biasi et al 2021 WACV
2019 - 2020: Michael Beauzile (now at MGH MD/PhD)
2019 - 2020: Daniel Soberanes (now a research assistant at Brigham and Women's Hospital ) —> see Lauer et al 2022 Nature Methods
2022 - 2024: Cyril Achard (now Master’s student at EPFL) —> see Achard et al 2024 eLife
2023: Wesley Monteith, Undergrad Research Assistant (EPFL) —> see Frey et al. 2024
2022 - 2024: Timokleia Kousi (now Veterinary Surgeon Resident in Bern) —> see Achard et al 2024 eLife
Research Engineers:
2021 - 2022: Ahmed Jellouli, Data Engineer (now Jr. Data Science Consultant at Philico)
2021 - 2022: Maxime Vidal, Software Engineer (now co-founder Typeless) —> see Ye et al 2024 & Achard et al 2024!
2022: Aristotelis Economides, Software Engineer (now at Google AI Zurich)
Visiting students (interns, rotation, semester projects, summer students):
2019: Mert Yüksekgönül (intern, now PhD student at Stanford) —> see Biasi et al 2021 WACV
2019: Max Burg, MSc (visiting PhD student, now PhD student with Ecker Lab)
2020: Tian Qiu (intern, now PhD student at Einstein) —> see Ye et al 2024 Nature Communications
2020: Xingying Chen (masters student TUM, now at Nokia AI)
2020: Lena Bruhin (masters semester project, now PhD student at Uni Bern)
2021: Célia Benquet (masters semester project, now PhD student at EPFL)
2022: Alexandre Variengien (master semester project, now AI Safety Researcher at EffiSciences)
2023: Quentin Macé (Intern, now CS masters student)
2023 - 2024: Hugo May (masters semester project-2x, EPFL, now masters thesis at Harvard)
DLC AI Residents:
2022: Nirel Kado, VicShaoChih Chang, Sabrina Benas, Sofia Minano, Neslihan Wittek, Jonas Håkansson
2023: Anna Teruel, Rae Pineda, Konrad Danielewski
2024: Anna Stuckert, Dikra Masrour, Marc Candela