{"id":141,"date":"2017-10-20T07:29:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T07:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iict-space.heig-vd.ch\/apu\/?page_id=141"},"modified":"2025-09-17T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:02:00","slug":"phd-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/iict-space.heig-vd.ch\/apu\/phd-students\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Current PhD students<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yimingli1998.github.io\/\"><strong>Yiming Li<\/strong><\/a> (2022-), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epfl.ch\/education\/phd\/edee-electrical-engineering\/\">EPFL\/EDEE<\/a> and Idiap (main advisor: Dr. Sylvain Calinon) on implicit representations for robot motion planning and manipulation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Graduated PhD students<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/georgevern.github.io\/\"><strong>Giorgos Vernikos<\/strong><\/a> (2020-2024), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epfl.ch\/education\/phd\/edee-electrical-engineering\/\">EPFL\/EDEE<\/a> and HEIG-VD (with Prof. Sabine S\u00fcsstrunk), <a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\"><em>From Preprocessing to Evaluation: The Role of External Knowledge in Advancing Language Models and Machine Translation<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/alexratrio.github.io\/\"><strong>Alejandro Ram\u00edrez Atrio<\/strong><\/a> (2019-2023), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epfl.ch\/education\/phd\/edee-electrical-engineering\/\">EPFL\/EDEE<\/a> and HEIG-VD (with Dr. J.-M. Odobez), <a href=\"https:\/\/infoscience.epfl.ch\/record\/305932\"><em>Regularization Techniques for Low-Resource Machine Translation<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/xiao-pu-3332956b\/\"><strong>Xiao Pu<\/strong><\/a> (2014-2018), <a href=\"http:\/\/phd.epfl.ch\/EDEE\">EPFL\/EDEE<\/a> and Idiap (with Prof. H. Bourlard), <a href=\"https:\/\/infoscience.epfl.ch\/record\/256311\"><em>Word sense consistency in statistical and neural machine translation<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=daiFj_cAAAAJ\"><strong>Nikolaos Pappas<\/strong><\/a> (2012-2016), <a href=\"http:\/\/phd.epfl.ch\/EDEE\">EPFL\/EDEE<\/a> and Idiap (with Prof. H. Bourlard), <a href=\"https:\/\/infoscience.epfl.ch\/record\/217010\"><em>Learning explainable user sentiment and preferences for information filtering<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.ch\/citations?user=bnZzlEgAAAAJ\"><strong>Maryam Habibi<\/strong><\/a> (2011-2015), <a href=\"http:\/\/phd.epfl.ch\/EDEE\">EPFL\/EDEE<\/a> and Idiap (with Prof. H. Bourlard), <a href=\"https:\/\/infoscience.epfl.ch\/record\/213645\"><em>Modeling users&#8217; information needs in a document recommender for meetings<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.ch\/citations?user=OSJzplwAAAAJ\"><strong>Thomas Meyer<\/strong><\/a> (2010-2014), <a href=\"http:\/\/phd.epfl.ch\/EDEE\">EPFL\/EDEE<\/a> and Idiap (with Prof. H. Bourlard), <a href=\"https:\/\/infoscience.epfl.ch\/record\/206235\"><em>Discourse-level features for statistical machine translation<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.ch\/citations?user=pjb_pIkAAAAJ\"><strong>Majid Yazdani<\/strong><\/a> (2008-2013), <a href=\"http:\/\/phd.epfl.ch\/edic\">EPFL\/EDIC<\/a> and Idiap (with Prof. H. Bourlard), <a href=\"https:\/\/infoscience.epfl.ch\/record\/186754\"><em>Similarity learning over large collaborative networks<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=Mo7TUaQAAAAJ\"><strong>Paula Estrella<\/strong><\/a> (2005-2008), <a href=\"http:\/\/unige.ch\/fti\/fr\/recherches\/theses-doctorat\/soutenances-these\/\">FTI \/ University of Geneva<\/a> (with Prof. M. King), <em>Evaluating machine translation in context: metrics and tools<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Member of PhD Thesis Committees<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Haolin Chen (EPFL \/ Idiap, 2025)<\/li>\n<li>Alexandre Bittar (EPFL \/ Idiap, 2024)<\/li>\n<li>Arnaud Pannatier (EPFL \/ Idiap, 2024)<\/li>\n<li>Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez (EPFL \/ Idiap, 2024)<\/li>\n<li>Andreas Marfurt (EPFL \/ Idiap, 2023)<\/li>\n<li>Didier Schwab (University of Grenoble, HDR, 2021)<\/li>\n<li>Rachel Bawden (Paris-Sud University \/ LIMSI, 2018)<\/li>\n<li>Sharid Loaiciga (University of Geneva, 2017)<\/li>\n<li>Meghdad Farahmand (University of Geneva, 2017)<\/li>\n<li>Valentina Sintsova (EPFL\/LIA, 2016)<\/li>\n<li>Liane Guillou (University of Edinburgh, 2016)<\/li>\n<li>Cristina Grisot (University of Geneva, 2015)<\/li>\n<li>John Niekrasz (University of Edinburgh, 2011)<\/li>\n<li>Sarra El Ayari (Paris-Sud University \/ LIMSI, 2009)<\/li>\n<li>Dennis Reidsema (University of Twente, 2008)<\/li>\n<li>Miroslav Melichar (EPFL \/ LIA, 2008)<\/li>\n<li>Maria Georgescul (University of Geneva, 2007)<\/li>\n<li>Etienne Denoual (University of Grenoble, 2006)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current PhD students Yiming Li (2022-), EPFL\/EDEE and Idiap (main advisor: Dr. Sylvain Calinon) on implicit representations for robot motion planning and manipulation Graduated PhD students Giorgos Vernikos (2020-2024), EPFL\/EDEE and HEIG-VD (with Prof. Sabine S\u00fcsstrunk), From Preprocessing to Evaluation: <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/iict-space.heig-vd.ch\/apu\/phd-students\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  PhD Students<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iict-space.heig-vd.ch\/apu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iict-space.heig-vd.ch\/apu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iict-space.heig-vd.ch\/apu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iict-space.heig-vd.ch\/apu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iict-space.heig-vd.ch\/apu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/iict-space.heig-vd.ch\/apu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"http:\/\/iict-space.heig-vd.ch\/apu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iict-space.heig-vd.ch\/apu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}