Robert Jakob

Founder & Co-Director Agentic Systems Lab at ETH Zürich | prev. PhD ETH, Harvard, NUS, TUM, KIT

Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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Experience

  • Founder & Co-Director at Agentic Systems Lab | ETH Zurich
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr

  • ETH Zürich (5 yrs 10 mos)
    • Postdoctoral Researcher (Agentic AI & Multimodal LLMs)
      Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Doctoral Researcher (Machine Learning in Digital Health)
      Sep 2020 - May 2025 · 4 yrs 9 mos

      Research on predicting and preventing churn and nonadherence with ML in Digital Health Interventions. Department of Management, Technology, and Economy (D-​MTEC) & Centre for Digital Health Interventions (C4DHI), PhD supervisors: Elgar Fleisch, Tobias Kowatsch

  • Associated Researcher at ETH AI Center
    2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Venture Partner – AI, DeepTech & HealthTech at caesar.
    Feb 2025 - Aug 2025 · 7 mos

    Supporting €80M pre-seed VC fund, focusing on AI, DeepTech, and HealthTech. Particularly interested in helping startups building agentic AI applications and workflow automation tools. Typical initial ticket: €500k.

  • Research Fellow - Statistical Reinforcement Learning Lab at Harvard University
    Oct 2023 - Apr 2024 · 7 mos

    Computer Science Fellow with Prof. Susan A Murphy's Statistical Reinforcement Learning Lab at the Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences (SEAS)