Fanny Yang
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Statistical Machine Learning (SML) Group at ETH Zurich

Group hike to Wildspitz

Members of the group
  • Parnian Kassraie (PhD student, joint with Andreas Krause, ETH)
  • Konstantin Donhauser (PhD student, AI Center Fellow)
  • Nicolo Ruggeri (PhD student joint with Caterina de Bacco, CLS)
  • Andrii Zadaianchuk (PhD student joint with Georg Martius, CLS)
  • Alexandru Tifrea (PhD student)
  • Dr. Julia Hoerrmann (Postdoc at FDS)

Master students
  • Vincent Bardenhagen
  • Carina Schnuck
  • Zuowen Wang (CYD Master Thesis Fellowship)

Open positions

If you are interested in joining my group as a PhD, please read this before contacting me. Due to the volume, I unfortunately cannot answer to most of the requests sent to me and I will not be able to consider your application unless you submit all necessary documents via the official channels that I listed.

Thank you for your interest in joining my lab! I am taking on PhD students and PostDocs on a rolling basis. In particular we are looking for exceptional and highly motivated applicants who have a strong background in areas such as machine learning, statistics, optimization and theoretical computer science. Unfortunately however, I do not always have time to reply to inquiries from prospective students.
If you are interested in applying for a Ph.D. position in our group:
  • For this cycle, I am not taking students apart from the AI center and
  • if you have (or expect to obtain soon) a M. Sc. degree and are interested in a joint PhD program with MPI Tuebingen/Stuttgart, please also consider applying via the CLS website
  • if you have (or expect to obtain soon) a M. Sc. degree and are interested in interdisciplinary research (e.g. medical domain or scientific discovery), please consider applying to the AI center fellowship
  • if you do not have a M.Sc., you may apply to the Direct Doctorate in Computer Science and express specific interest in our research group in your application

If you are interested in joining my group as a PostDoc please read this.

Thanks for your interest! I am always looking for PhD candidates with a good research publication record in theoretical machine learning, statistics, optimization or applied math. I would encourage you to get in touch with me and be aware of the deadlines of the following ETH wide Postdoc fellowships
  • ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • ETH-ITS Junior Fellow
  • ETH-FDS Postdoctoral Fellowship


If you are an ETH student CS or Statistics (ITET, Math can also be arranged) interested in doing a project or thesis, please fill out this form and e-mail me. You can find the description of some possible projects here . Please cc the project advisor when you write to me.

If you are an external student interested in an internship, please apply to our Student Summer Research Fellowship program