Christos Sakaridis is Lecturer at ETH Zurich and head of the Artificial Visual Intelligence (AVI) group under the umbrella of the Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing lab of Prof. Konrad Schindler. At AVI, he leads the large-scale TRACE Zurich project funded by Toyota Motor Europe as its Principal Investigator. From 2021 to 2025, he also led TRACE Zurich as Principal Investigator at the Computer Vision Lab under Prof. Luc Van Gool, appointed as Postdoctoral Researcher until 2023 and as Established Researcher from 2023 to 2025.
His broad research fields are Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The focus of his research is on 3D and semantic visual perception, where he develops data-driven yet informed vision models and representations and he emphasizes embodied applications such as autonomous cars and robots. He has taught the Master courses Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Cars at ETH Zurich since 2023, Computer Vision for Automated Driving at University of Zurich since 2026, and Computer Vision at University of St. Gallen in 2024.
Christos obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from ETH Zurich in 2021, having worked at Computer Vision Lab. Prior to his doctoral studies, he received the MSc in Computer Science from ETH Zurich in 2016 and the Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National Technical University of Athens in 2014, conducting his Diploma thesis at the CVSP group supervised by Prof. Petros Maragos.