Jonas Mirlach

M.Sc. Student in Computer Science
Zurich, Switzerland

Hi! I'm Jonas, currently a graduate student in Computer Science at ETH Zurich. For the past few years, my studies and much of my work have revolved around AI, and I've enjoyed exploring different corners of the field. Beyond the technical side, I'm very interested in economics, industry, and politics, and how they will need to evolve together so that the technology genuinely benefits everyone. I'm always happy to connect, just reach out!

Previously, I completed a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and a B.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Augsburg. Throughout my studies, I gained experience in both research and industry. I spent four years at the FIM Research Center and Fraunhofer FIT, and one and a half years with XITASO's research team. Beyond research, I did internships in management consulting at Porsche Consulting and BCG, and most recently in ML infrastructure engineering at Google. I also really enjoy teaching and sharing knowledge, and have been a teaching assistant for several courses at both the University of Augsburg and ETH Zurich.

Research Projects

Publications, preprints, and unpublished student research work.

  1. Illustration of reference-guided machine unlearning
    ICLR Workshop on Agents in the Wild (AIWILD)

    Reference-Guided Machine Unlearning

    Jonas Mirlach, Sonia Laguna, Julia E. Vogt

    We proposed a machine unlearning method that uses predictions on unseen data to guide forgetting while preserving accuracy on retained data.

  2. Illustration of automatic differentiation routes in PyTorch and JAX
    Unpublished

    PyTorch vs. JAX: Automatic Differentiation Performance on Scientific Codes

    Baraq Lipshitz, Jonas Mirlach, Amin Oudrhiri, Gerald Prendi, Leyla Yaayladere

    We compared reverse-mode automatic differentiation in PyTorch and JAX, examining how computational patterns affect performance on scientific workloads across CPUs and GPUs.

  3. Roadside sensors observing a pedestrian and cyclist for the R-LiViT dataset
    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

    R-LiViT: A LiDAR-Visual-Thermal Dataset Enabling Vulnerable Road User Focused Roadside Perception

    Jonas Mirlach, Lei Wan, Andreas Wiedholz, Hannan Ejaz Keen, Andreas Eich

    We created a roadside dataset combining LiDAR, RGB and thermal recordings, with a focus on detecting pedestrians and cyclists during day and night.

  4. Illustration of a legal ruling being condensed into multilingual headnotes
    Unpublished

    Evaluating Apertus Models for Multilingual Legal Headnote Generation

    Kaushik Karthikeyan, Jonas Mirlach, Max Neuwinger

    We evaluated fine-tuning approaches for Apertus models to generate headnotes for Swiss court decisions, examining summary quality across German, French and Italian.

  5. Illustration of dynamic human reconstruction with Gaussian splatting
    Unpublished

    Feed-forward Dynamic Scene Reconstruction with Humans Using Gaussian Splatting

    İrem Demir, Emircan Gündoğdu, Jonas Mirlach

    We developed a Gaussian splatting approach to reconstruct people and their surroundings from monocular video, with a human representation that supports reposing.

  6. Illustration of uncertainty-guided depth distillation
    Unpublished

    Uncertainty Guided Knowledge Distillation for Monocular Depth Estimation

    Tengerleg Enkhtuvshin, Jonas Mirlach, Iaroslava Novoselova, Piotr Wilczyński

    We tested whether filtering uncertain teacher predictions helps smaller models learn to estimate depth from a single image through knowledge distillation.

  7. Illustration of explainable building retrofit decisions
    Energy and Buildings

    Leveraging Explainable AI for Informed Building Retrofit Decisions: Insights from a Survey

    Daniel Leuthe, Jonas Mirlach, Simon Wenninger, Christian Wiethe

    We examined how people understand explanations of building energy predictions, comparing machine learning models and explanation methods through a survey of 137 participants.

  8. Illustration of adversarial robustness and catastrophic forgetting
    Unpublished

    Adversarial Robustness as a Predictor of Catastrophic Forgetting

    Arthur Kirchgessner, Stefan Künzli, Jonas Mirlach, Alexandre Zwahlen

    We studied whether an image’s robustness to adversarial perturbations predicts how likely a model is to forget it when learning new classes.

  9. Illustration of personalised PTSD prediction from speech
    Unpublished

    Towards Personalised Prediction of PTSD from Speech

    Jonas Mirlach

    We explored predicting PTSD from speech, comparing acoustic features and machine learning models and testing personalisation through groups of similar speakers.

  10. Illustration of a smart-factory data integration platform
    Conference on Production Systems and Logistics (CPSL)

    Enabling the Smart Factory: A Digital Platform Concept for Standardized Data Integration

    Julia Donnelly, Andreas John, Jonas Mirlach, Kilian Osberghaus, Silvia Rother, Christian Schmidt, Hannes Voucko-Glockner, Simon Wenninger

    We designed a platform concept for providing manufacturers with standardised data integration modules, drawing on literature and interviews with industry experts.