Thorir Mar Ingolfsson

Making AI run on microwatts

Thorir Mar Ingolfsson · Postdoctoral Researcher · ETH Zürich

I bridge large-scale pre-training and ultra-low-power hardware so that wearable biomedical devices can analyze EEG, ECG, and other biosignals in real time: on the device, not in the cloud.

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14 h-index Core research impact
30 Publications View publications →
Flagship software

BioFoundation

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The open-source home of our biosignal foundation-model family. PyTorch Lightning, Hydra configs, pre-trained weights on Hugging Face, and distributed training: everything needed to pre-train, fine-tune, and deploy.

LUNA logoLUNA
Topology-agnostic transformer · 300× fewer FLOPs
NeurIPS 2025
FEMBA logoFEMBA
Bidirectional Mamba · linear-time, 0.949 AUROC
EMBC 2025
LuMamba logoLuMamba
LUNA + FEMBA + LeJEPA · 377× cheaper than LaBraM
arXiv 2026
TinyMyo logoTinyMyo
3.6M-param EMG model for microcontrollers
arXiv 2025
CBCEReBrO
Compact encoder · alternating attention
arXiv 2025

Available Projects for Students

🎓 Looking for Students & Collaborators

I'm looking for motivated students to work with me on TinyML and biomedical AI research. If you're passionate about making AI work on edge devices and have a strong background in machine learning, I'd love to hear from you.

Why work with me?

  • 🔬 Publish at top-tier venues (NeurIPS, ICML, IEEE journals)
  • 🛠️ Access to cutting-edge hardware (GAP9, embedded ML platforms)
  • 🌍 Collaborate with leading research groups and industry partners
  • 🎯 Work on real-world applications with practical impact
  • 📚 Regular mentorship and career guidance

📋 Open MSc Thesis Topics

Tiny Recursive Models for Time-Series

Tiny Recursive Models for Time-Series

Adapt TRMs to non-visual domains (e.g., UCR, EEG) and analyse how deep supervision and adaptive halting impact accuracy and compute.

Quantized TRMs for Edge Deployment

Quantized TRMs for Edge Deployment

Quantise TRMs to INT8/INT4, deploy them on GAP9 or Cortex-M, and study accuracy–energy trade-offs and on-device adaptive halting.


💡 Not Seeing Your Dream Topic?

If you’re interested in working with me but don’t see a perfect fit above, feel free to reach out. I’m always open to discussing new ideas at the intersection of:

  • Foundation models for biosignals
  • Tiny recursive models and deep supervision
  • Hardware-aware neural architecture search
  • TinyML deployment and optimisation

Recent Posts

Recent Publications

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(2025). Finetuning and Quantization of EEG-Based Foundational BioSignal Models on ECG and PPG Data for Blood Pressure Estimation. In EMBC 2025.

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(2025). SzCORE: Seizure Community Open-Source Research Evaluation Framework for EEG-Based Seizure Detection. In Epilepsia 66 (Suppl. 3).

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(2025). A Wearable Ultra-Low-Power System for EEG-Based Speech-Imagery Interfaces. In IEEE TBioCAS 2025.

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(2025). CEReBrO: Compact Encoder for Representations of Brain Oscillations Using Efficient Alternating Attention. arXiv:2501.10885 (2025).

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(2024). Train-On-Request: An On-Device Continual Learning Workflow for Adaptive Real-World Brain-Machine Interfaces. In IEEE BioCAS 2024.

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