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 toward my MSc in Computer Science at ETH Zurich.

My recent interests revolve primarily around the intersection of Ubiquitous Computing, HCI, Machine Perception, 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 also started to work 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'll soon find a collection of my favorite shots from the last couple of years here.

So what's next, you may ask yourself? Well, since you have already found my website in this deep wilderness known as The World Wide Web, why not keep connected?

Catch me on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Telegram — or reach me out via good old electronic mail:

Short Biography

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

Publications

Franco, M. F., Bucher, M. J., Scheid, E. J., Granville, L. Z., & Stiller, B. (2019, September). GENEVIZ: A Visual Tool for the Construction and Blockchain-Based Validation of SFC Packages. In International Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services (pp. 15-28). Springer, Cham.

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 in 2012 the digital agency Tinystudio, 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. Here is a short Demo.
Hack Zurich 2016/2017/2018
Together with Michael Ziörjen and Pascal Emmenegger, I participated three times 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, called PeakPass, in front of the whole crowd.
Tempic
While getting in touch with the Scrum framework for the first time, we designed and developed Tempic, a web app for analyzing climate data, during the Software Engineering course at UZH.