Federica Bogo

I am a senior scientist at ETH Zürich, working on computer vision, computer graphics and machine learning.

Before joining academia, I spent more than ten years in the tech industry. From 2022 until 2026, I was at Meta Reality Labs Research, where I worked on human body modeling for SAM3D and on 3D human perception for Project Aria. Before that, I spent almost six years at Microsoft (MR & AI Lab Cambridge and Zürich), working on real-time hand tracking for HoloLens 2, HoloLens Research Mode and Microsoft Mesh.
I also held teaching appointments at ETH and at the Zürich University of Applied Sciences.

I received my PhD from the University of Padova (Italy). From the same university, I hold degrees in Philosophy (BA) and Computer Engineering (BS, MS). During part of my PhD I was an affiliated student at the Perceiving Systems Department of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Germany), where I spent also one year as postdoctoral researcher.

I grew up in Belluno (Italy), a beautiful town in the Eastern Dolomites region.

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I am interested in models of human shape, pose and motion - both to generate expressive virtual human representations and to allow efficient, automated analysis of existing images.
In the past I worked on medical imaging, design and analysis of algorithms for networks and high-performance computing.
For a complete list of publications, including technical reports and patents, please see my Google Scholar profile.

Design and source code from Jon Barron's website