Christoph Studer

The research of the Integrated Information Processing (IIP) Group, led by Prof. Christoph Studer, is at the intersection of wireless communication, machine learning, digital signal processing, numerical optimization, and integrated circuit design. The overarching theme is the development of novel algorithms for applications that demand high throughput, low power, and best solution quality, and the integration of hardware accelerators into efficient microchips. To arrive at best-in-class circuit designs, the group jointly considers theory, algorithm development, and hardware implementation aspects, which enables far more efficient solutions than conventional, atomistic design approaches that solely focus either on theory, algorithms, or on circuit design.

The group’s research activities are in beyond-fifth-generation (B5G) multi-antenna wireless communication systems, simultaneous sensing and communication (SISCO), positioning with wireless signals (including privacy aspects), analog-to-feature (A2F) conversion for low-power signal classification, (non-)convex optimization for digital signal processing, and hardware-efficient machine learning in the realm of wireless systems. In all of these fields, the group leverages a wide range of mathematical tools, including convex and non-convex optimization, sparse signal recovery and compressive sensing, graphical models and message passing, Bayesian inference, nonparametric estimation, Monte-Carlo methods, supervised and self-supervised deep learning, dimensionality reduction, and manifold learning. Furthermore, insights gained from the hardware prototypes often inspire new theories and algorithms.

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Christoph Studer was appointed Associate Professor in Integrated Information Processing at ETH Zurich in June 2020. 

Prof. Studer received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (D-ITET) at ETH Zurich in 2006 and 2009, respectively. In 2005, he was a visiting researcher with the Smart Antennas Research Group at Stanford University. From 2009 to 2014, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Communication Technology Laboratory at ETH Zurich and the Digital Signal Processing Group at Rice University in Houston, Texas. From 2014 to 2019, Prof. Studer was an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and from 2019 to 2020, he was an Associate Professor at Cornell University and at Cornell Tech in New York City.

Prof. Studer’s research and teaching activities are in the areas of digital integrated circuit design, wireless communications, digital signal processing, optimization, and machine learning