- Recipient of the Eurographics Young Researcher Award 2014 (one of two)
- Supervised student Philipp Henzler who won the EG PhD Award 2024
- Supervised student Thomas Leimkühler who was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society 2019 and the EG PhD Award 2019
- Served as chair or co-chair for several international conferences, such as EGSR 2024, Pacific Graphics 2024, etc.
- Published numerous academic papers, including 'Stochastic Gradient Estimation for Higher-order Differentiable Rendering' (Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2025)
Research Experience
- Has been a Professor of Computer Graphics at University College London since July 2019
- Accepted an offer as a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) from the VECG group at University College London in October 2015
- Joined the Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction at Saarland University and became a senior researcher at the MPI Informatik in May 2013
- Became a junior research group leader within the Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication at the MPI Informatik in May 2012
- Was a Postdoctoral researcher at the CG Group, Télécom ParisTech (CNRS), Paris, France, from May 2010 to around 2012
Education
PhD thesis: 'Perceptually-motivated, Interactive Rendering and Editing of Global Illumination'; Defended on December 20th, 2009, and received the Eurographics Thesis Award 2011 (one of three).
Background
Research interests include Interactive Global Illumination, Perceptual Graphics, Non-physical Graphics, and Data-driven Graphics. Specializes in the field of Computer Graphics.