Promoted sub auspiciis prasidentis rei publicae in 2014; first Austrian to win the GI Dissertation Prize; winner of the Heinz Zemanek Prize; numerous awards for papers, including ACM CHI, IEEE Infovis, Eurographics, ACM NPAR, EG/ACM HPG, and IEEE HPEC best paper and honorable mention awards.
Research Experience
Director Cloud Rendering at Huawei Technologies (Austria) since September 2021; Associate Professor at Graz University of Technology, Austria, leading the GPU Computing and Visualization Group since May 2021; Assistant Professor at Graz University of Technology, Austria, leading the GPU Computing and Visualization Group from April 2017 to April 2021; Junior Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany, leading the GPU Scheduling and Parallel Computing Group from November 2015 to April 2017; Post Doc / Junior Group Leader at Graz University of Technology, Austria, leading the Parallel Computing Group and teaching courses in Computer Graphics and GPU computing from November 2013 to October 2015; Internship at NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, California, USA, as a researcher in the Mobile Computer Vision Group of Kari Pulli from October 2013 to February 2014; University Assistant at Graz University of Technology, Austria, conducting research and teaching at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision from July 2010 to October 2013; Teaching Assistant at Graz University of Technology, Austria, assisting at various institutes including the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision, from October 2007 to June 2010.
Education
Habilitation in the scientific field Practical Computer Science from Graz University of Technology in November 2020, with a dissertation titled 'High-performance Scheduling on Manycore Processors'; PhD in Computer Science from Graz University of Technology from November 2010 to October 2013, supervised by Prof. Dieter Schmalstieg, with a dissertation titled 'Dynamic Resource Scheduling on Graphics Processors'; Master's degree in Telematics from Graz University of Technology from October 2008 to June 2010, supervised by Dr. Markus Grabner, with a thesis titled 'Highly accurate Multiresolution Isosurface Rendering using compactly supported Spline Wavelets'; Bachelor's degree in Telematics from Graz University of Technology from October 2005 to October 2008, supervised by Dr. Markus Grabner, with a thesis titled 'Isosurface Representation and Rendering, an approach for polynomial isosurface functions'.
Background
Currently an Associate Professor at Graz University of Technology, Austria, leading the GPU Computing and Visualization Group at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision. Research interests include high-performance scheduling, dynamic resource scheduling on graphics processors, etc.