Martin Juan José Bucher

Hi, I'm Martin Juan José Bucher, an interdisciplinary software engineer and maker. I'm currently living and studying in Zurich, working towards my MSc in Computer Science at ETH Zurich.

My recent interests revolve primarily around the intersection of Machine Perception, Human-Computer Interaction, Deep Learning, and Computer Vision. I'm particularly interested in new ways to think about the interface between human and machine and on completely new approaches technology allows us to interact with the hybrid world of physical and digital entities around us.

Along with deepening the knowledge acquired through my studies, I build some stuff at Tinystudio and on my own, explore (quite irregularly) new spots in Zurich and also started mixing music I like a lot.

Since February 2021, I'm further working as a Student Research Assistant on the Disintegration Project at the Department of Political Science at UZH under the supervision of Prof. Stefanie Walter. Disintegration's main objective is to conduct a broad, systematic, and comparative inquiry into the mass politics of disintegration.

Beside all this, I'm trying to step into photography as well. You can find a sparse selection from my photographic archive on Instagram.

I can also be found on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Telegram. If you want to reach me in a timely manner, good old email usually works best:

Short Biography

2019 – present: MSc Computer Science @ ETH Zurich, CH
2015 – 2019: BSc Informatics @ UZH, CH
2003 – 2015: Lucerne, CH
1998 – 2003: Santiago de Chile, CL
Born 1995 in Osorno, CL

Projects

Menzha
Spending the majority of my time at ETH campus in Zurich at the moment, I took a spare minute to look at the Swift programming language and built a small app for watchOS to get the menus from the several cafeterias we have around at campus right on your wrist. I call the app Menzha and you can grab it here.
Tinystudio
Together with Pascal Emmenegger, I co-founded the digital agency Tinystudio back in 2012, where we had the opportunity to work with clients from several industrial sectors up until today.
Imhotepic
With a team of five people, we implemented Imhotep, the Kosmos board game of the year 2016, as a multiplayer browser game. There is a short Demo.
Hack Zurich 2016/2017/2018
Together with Michael Ziörjen and Pascal Emmenegger, we participated three times in a row at Hack Zurich, one of Europe's largest hackathons. We got into the top 25 teams in 2017 and had the chance to present our iOS prototype, PeakPass, in front of the whole crowd.