Robert Jakob

Postdoc, Agentic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich

Joined

January 2024

Names

Robert Jakob (Preferred)

Emails

****@ethz.ch (Confirmed)

****@icloud.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Postdoc

Agentic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich (ethz.ch)

2025 – 2026

Researcher

Statistical Reinforcement Learning Lab, Harvard (harvard.edu)

2023 – 2024

PhD student

ETH Zurich (ethz.ch)

2020 – 2024

MS student

Technische Universität München (tum.edu)

2014 – 2016

Undergrad student

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (kit.edu)

2009 – 2013

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Elgar Fleisch

2020 – 2025

Expertise

Agentic AI

Present

Multimodal LLMs

Present

Predictive Analytics

Present

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Present

Digital Health

Present

Publications

TS-Haystack: A Multi-Scale Retrieval Benchmark for Time Series Language Models
Nicolas Zumarraga, Thomas Kaar, Ning Wang, Maxwell A Xu, Max Rosenblattl, Markus Kreft, Kevin O'Sullivan, Paul Schmiedmayer, Patrick Langer, Robert Jakob
- ICLR 2026 TSALM Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Digital Scale: Open-Source On-Device BMI Estimation from Smartphone Camera Images Trained on a Large-Scale Real-World Dataset
Frederik Rajiv Manichand, Robin Deuber, Robert Jakob, Steve Swerling, Jamie Rosen, Elgar Fleisch, Patrick Langer
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (to appear)
- Readers: Everyone
Factors associated with adherence to a public mobile nutritional health intervention: Retrospective cohort study
Robert Jakob, Justas Narauskas, Elgar Fleisch, Laura Maria König, Tobias Kowatsch
- Computers in Human Behavior Reports
- Readers: Everyone
Predicting early user churn in a public digital weight loss intervention
Robert Jakob, Nils Lepper, Elgar Fleisch, Tobias Kowatsch
- Crossref
- Readers: Everyone
Effective Behavior Change Techniques in Digital Health Interventions for the Prevention or Management of Noncommunicable Diseases: An Umbrella Review
Jacqueline Louise Mair, Alicia Salamanca-Sanabria, Mareike Augsburger, Bea Franziska Frese, Stefanie Abend, Robert Jakob, Tobias Kowatsch, Severin Haug
- Annals of Behavioral Medicine
- Readers: Everyone
Effective behavior change techniques in digital health interventions targeting non-communicable diseases: an umbrella review
Jacqueline Louise Mair, Alicia Salamanca-Sanabria, Bea Frese, Robert Jakob, Tobias Kowatsch, Severin Haug
- Crossref
- Readers: Everyone
Factors Influencing Adherence to mHealth Apps for Prevention or Management of Noncommunicable Diseases: Systematic Review
Robert Jakob, Samira Harperink, Aaron Maria Rudolf, Elgar Fleisch, Severin Haug, Jacqueline Louise Mair, Alicia Salamanca-Sanabria, Tobias Kowatsch
- Journal of Medical Internet Research
- Readers: Everyone
Engagement With a Mobile Phone–Based Life Skills Intervention for Adolescents and Its Association With Participant Characteristics and Outcomes: Tree-Based Analysis (Preprint)
Raquel Paz Castro, Severin Haug, Rudolf Debelak, Robert Jakob, Tobias Kowatsch, Michael P Schaub
- Crossref
- Readers: Everyone
Factors Influencing Adherence to mHealth Apps for Prevention or Management of Noncommunicable Diseases: Systematic Review (Preprint)
Robert Jakob, Samira Harperink, Aaron Maria Rudolf, Elgar Fleisch, Severin Haug, Jacqueline Louise Mair, Alicia Salamanca-Sanabria, Tobias Kowatsch
- Crossref
- Readers: Everyone
Engagement With a Mobile Phone–Based Life Skills Intervention for Adolescents and Its Association With Participant Characteristics and Outcomes: Tree-Based Analysis
Raquel Paz Castro, Severin Haug, Rudolf Debelak, Robert Jakob, Tobias Kowatsch, Michael P Schaub
- Journal of Medical Internet Research
- Readers: Everyone

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