Academics
I'm a PhD student in the machine learning and pattern recognition group of Prof. Joachim M. Buhmann at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
My main research interest is centered around structured prediction. I'm mostly focusing on training such models and devising fast algorithms to do so. Solving the problem is computationally intractable in general. Many subproblems are closely related to probabilistic inference in graphical models, such as computing the partition sum.
Work address and email
Patrick Pletscher
CAB F 65.2
Universitätstrasse 6
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 632 8608
Feel free to contact me by email:
pletscher {at} inf {dot} ethz {dot} ch
Projects & Publications
For a complete list of my publications, see under Publications.
I release some of the scientific software developed during my PhD studies as open source software. You can find some packages under Software.
Teaching & Supervision
I have assisted several courses at ETH Zurich as a teaching assistant.
- Probabilistic Graphical Models for Image Analysis WS09
- Informatik II (D-MAVT) SS09
- Image Analysis with Statistical Models WS08
- Visual Computing SS08
- Computational Science SS07
- Computational Science SS06
- Informatik I (D-BAUG) WS05/06
If you are an undergraduate student at ETH Zurich and looking for a research topic for e.g. a master's thesis, then feel free to contact me. Possible topics include approximate inference and learning in graphical models and its applications to e.g. computer vision.