Lukas Hoyer
Research Scientist at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolLukas Hoyer is a research scientist at Google Zurich specializing in conversational and agentic AI for AndroidXR, with 11 years of engineering and research experience bridging vision, language, and robotics. He completed a Ph.D. at ETH Zurich under Luc Van Gool focused on domain-robust, label-efficient visual scene understanding, improving domain-adaptive semantic segmentation by ~30% and publishing 11 papers in top venues. His work during a Google research internship produced vision-language adaptations that advanced semi-supervised segmentation by up to 50% and helped set new pre-training standards across multiple vision tasks. Lukas combines strong academic rigor—ETH Medal for his M.Sc. thesis and cross-disciplinary training in robotics and systems—with practical product experience as a founder of an educational spectrometer startup. Comfortable moving between self-/semi-supervised learning, generative and language-guided methods, he brings both state-of-the-art research and hands-on systems instincts to deployable AI. An often overlooked strength is his track record of translating research gains into measurable task improvements across both academia and industry.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Semester Abroad, Semester Abroad at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Science, Ingenieurinformatik, Bachelor of Science, Ingenieurinformatik at Otto-von-Guericke-Universität MagdeburgPhD, Computer Vision, PhD, Computer Vision at ETH Zürich
Github Skills (16)
semantic-segmentation10
high-resolution10
adversarial-learning10
few-shot-learning9
semantic9
segmentation9
adaptation9
transfer-learning9
image-translation9
transformer8
semi-supervised-learning8
paper8
architectures7
pytorch7
deep-learning7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lhoyer/HRDA
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
[ECCV22] Official Implementation of HRDA: Context-Aware High-Resolution Domain-Adaptive Semantic Segmentation
Contributions:10 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
pytorchcontext-awaresemantic-segmentationadaptiveresolution
lhoyer/FormelsammlungMathe3
Nov 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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