Short bio
I’m Assistant Research Professor at the University of Cambridge leading the CV4DT group. I was Research Associate on 3D object reconstruction & semantic segmentation at the Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing Chair, Technical University of Munich, where I received summa cum laude PhD in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing under the mentorship of Prof Thomas H. Kolbe and late Prof Uwe Stilla. A few years back, I obtained my Geodesy and Geoinformatics master’s degree with a major in photogrammetry from Technical University of Munich. I was fortunate to intern and complete my master’s thesis devoted to HD Maps for automated driving at Audi AG and had a previous stint as a geomatics professional in a 3D urban-reconstruction-focused company. Currently, a member of Runder Tisch GIS, TUM Data Innovation Lab and Get Kids into Survey. Cherishing interdisciplinary collaboration with top-notch professors and their labs: Yan Xia Christoph Holst Boris Jutzi Filip Biljecki Daniel Cremers.
Research interests: Geometry- & physics- driven approaches, 3D semantic reconstruction, 3D semantic segmentation, 3D digital twins, 3D minimum-viable representation
Recent highlights
- 01 / 2026: :hammer_and_wrench: Co-organsing 2x CVPR 2026 workshops: PBVS and DriveX!
- 10 / 2025: :page_with_curl: Our TrueCity paper goes to 3DV 2026!
- 09 / 2025: :trophy: :page_with_curl: 2xISPRS Annals papers: CM2LoD3 best paper award, and GS4Buildings; and chairing a session; at 3DGeoInfo in Tokyo, Japan;
- 08 / 2025: :mage_man: Starting my new group, CV4DT, at the University of Cambridge!
- 06 / 2025: :trophy: :page_with_curl: Winning the best paper award (To Glue or Not to Glue?) and chairing the point cloud processing session at MMT in Xiamen, China
- 05 / 2025: :page_with_curl: Our 4-years long urban digital twin project TUM2TWIN is out! Check the pre-print and the website
- 04 / 2025: :page_with_curl: 2x accepted papers at CVPR’25: Texture2LoD3 and RADLER
- 03 / 2025: :page_with_curl: Our ZAHA - to date largest facade benchmark dataset - presented at WACV’25 in Tucson, Arizona, USA
- 12 / 2024: :trophy: :page_with_curl: I defended my doctoral thesis with the summa cum laude! More here
- 10 / 2024: :trophy: :page_with_curl: Best oral presentation at ISPRS Symposium, Perth, Australia, for the review paper centering on Open Data Semantic 3D City Models more here
- 09 / 2024: :page_with_curl: Presenting my research paper Scan2LoD3 at the Nectar Track of GCPR and at the Georg Nemetschek Institute Symposium & Expo on Artificial Intelligence for the Built World more here
- 03 / 2024: :racing_car: Kicking-off a new research project devoted to LoD3 reconstruction with TUM Engineering Geodesy, and Prof Biljecki’s group at NUS
- 11 / 2023: :microphone: Presenting my research findings at the Leonhard Obermeyer Center (LOC) Day dedicated to the built environment research
- 09 / 2023: :page_with_curl: Contributing and leading author of 4 research papers presented at the 3D GeoInfo ‘23 conference devoted to the digital twinning aspects
- 09 / 2023: :microphone: Presenting my research findings at the Ordance Survey 3D PhD Programme meeting
- 08 / 2023: :microphone: Joining as visiting researcher at the University of Nottingham working on 3D point cloud segmentation
- 07 / 2023: :page_with_curl: Presenting my paper Scan2LoD3 at the CVPR Workshop ‘23