Student Projects

This Semester Project (ev. Master Project) will focus on the design of a systematic method for configuring large networks of spiking neurons (2000+ neurons) to implement robust state machines, using currently available neuromorphic VLSI chips.

This Master Project (ev. Semester Project) targets the analogies between human visual perception vs. recent statistical physics approaches to perception. It is composed of an experimental and a theoretical part, resulting in a truly interdisciplinary research project.

In this master project, the quest will be to reveal in biophysics data the footprints of lowdimensional nonlinear dynamics processes, which are universal features of broad classes of nonlinear systems.

In this project you will work on a novel articulated chair for use in lower limb rehabilitation. Your task will be to integrate sensors and a software interface to the chair. This project is a collaboration with Inno-Motion AG.

Flight control of Drosophila offers an excellent model system to study principles of nonlinear oscillators based locomotion. Our research investigates the stroke-by-stroke variations of the wing beat due to periodic stimulations of the mechanosensory feedback loop in tethered flight; but also its integration with high-level vision based flight control strategies.

(Master or semester project) Design the next generation on-chip digitally controlled current and voltage references.

In this Master's thesis or student project, you will analyze and compare the preferred spatial and temporal stimulus parameters of neighboring neurons in the primary visual cortex.

Single-cell metabolomics is an ongoing project at the Bio Engineering Laboratory (BEL) of the ETH Zürich. We established a system where single cells are flown through microfluidic channels. In order to analyze specific features of the cells (e.g. cell size, dead or alive cell), we use multi-frequency impedance spectroscopy, where different features can be analyzed at different frequencies. One main problem in the analysis of the impedance measurement is that no particular information about the flowing cells is known. If the cells are flown at high velocities, which is crucial for high through-put, optical observation with a standard camera is very limited. The DVS (www.siliconretina.ini.uzh.ch) is an optical sensor with limited spatial but practically unlimited temporal resolution, able to see all cells at high velocities and to record their trajectories. The aim of this thesis is to use the information from the DVS in order to evaluate and improve the analysis of the impedance measurements.

Semester or diploma project for student to interface a new aVLSI motion sensor with a microflyer.

Semester/Master project: Using a DVS silicon retina for real-time stabilization of fluorescence imaging of stained neuronal networks.

In this semester project you will create a test to enable the assessment of basal ganglia disorders using a graphics tablet.

The mammalian auditory system extracts from the arriving soundwaves rich portraits of the auditory environment.