Christoph Lassner

Perceiving Systems Affiliated Researcher Alumni

I graduated and joined the startup Bodylabs in September 2017, which was acquired by Amazon. In March 2019, I joined the Facebook Reality Labs in Sausalito.

Education

05/2015 to 07/2017

Ph.D. student, Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Tuebingen (Germany).
 
Advisor:  Dr. Peter Gehler
 

06/2012 to 04/2015

Ph.D. student, Multimedia Computing and Computer Vision Lab, University of Augsburg (Germany).

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rainer Lienhart.


05/2012

Diploma in Computer Science, University of Augsburg (Germany). Thesis: "An Analysis of Successful Approaches to Human Pose Estimation".
Advanced degree (equiv. to M.Sc.) in Computer Science from a German university.

 

05/2006

Abitur, Jakob-Fugger-Gymnasium Augsburg (Germany).

 

Research Internships

09/2009 - 03/2010

Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, USA.

 

Stipends and Grants

2015

ACM Multimedia Student travel grant,

2010 - 2012

Siemens TOPAZ program member,

2006 - 2017

e-fellows.net.

 

Awards

2018

3DV Best Student Paper Award,

2017

CVPR Outstanding Reviewer Award,

2016

ICLR Best Reviewer Award,

2015

ACM Multimedia Open Source Software Competition Honorable Mention.