This page gives an abbreviated CV. The full version can be downloaded from here.

EXPERIENCE

 

twist TWIST Fellow (April 2022 – Present)
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
Participation in FFG-funded applied research project DiProK.
automold Head (September 2021 – Present)
AutoMold
Head of spin-off project.
++ Parental leave (February 2021 – August 2021)
twist TWIST Fellow (January 2021)
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
Transfer of research results in computational mold design to industrial prototypes.
ISTA Postdoctoral Researcher (October 2015 – December 2020)
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
Research in appearance modeling and computational tools for fabrication as member of the group of Bernd Bickel.
kaust Visiting Researcher (Several times from 2016 – 2018)
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
Collaboration on nanofabrication with Wolfgang Heidrich.
university_tokyo Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher (May 2015 – September 2015)
The University of Tokyo
Conducting investigations on the modeling and editing of cranial anatomies under the supervision of Prof. Takeo Igarashi.
tuwien Doctoral Researcher (September 2009 – April 2015)
Technische Universität Wien, Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms
Research in analytic and physically based rendering methods as well as general GPGPU computing, medical visualization, modeling and fabrication.
ait Software Engineer (2001 – 2009)
AIT – Austrian Institute of Technology, Health Physics Department
Developed software for measurement device control, data acquisition, data evaluation and reporting in the field of laser and lamp safety as well a experimental setups with tissue samples. Handled diverse requirements such as optical machinery control, implementation of IEC standards, distributed computing, user interface design, etc.

EDUCATION

tuwien Dr. techn., Computer Graphics, Excellent (with distinction) (2009 – 2015)
Technische Universität Wien, Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms
Thesis: Sampled and prefiltered anti-aliasing on parallel hardware
uni_wien Master of Science (MSc), Physics, Highest distinction (2010)
Universität Wien / University of Vienna
Thesis: Rotating Bose-Einstein condensates in partially anisotropic traps.
uni_wien Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics, Highest distinction (2009)
Universität Wien / University of Vienna
ludwig_boltzmann_society Innovator’s Road Program (2019-2020)
Ludwig Boltzmann Society
The LBG Innovator´s Road Programme in cooperation with the I.E.C.T. – Hermann Hauser and New Venture Scouting is intended to expand the instruments in the direction of “Entrepreneurial Skills” in science.
The offer of the LBG Innovator´s Road Programme tries to address the particularities of start-ups from the academic environment and follows the life cycle of a start-up. This means that tailor-made contents support the development of the founder and his start-up idea at the right time.
iect Summer School on Entrepreneurship (2019)
I.E.C.T. – Hermann Hauser
I.E.C.T. – Summer School on Entrepreneurship will show participants the way to successfully commercialize their ideas by guiding them through the processes of protecting their ideas, investigating and pinpointing the market, raising finance, building teams, and selling their ideas. It has been specifically designed for the budding entrepreneur or corporate innovator who requires practical know-how in the development of a new business.
barcelona_supercomputing Programming Massively Parallel Hardware (2013)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center: PUMPS Summer School
The fourth edition of the Programming and Tuning Massively Parallel Systems summer school (PUMPS) is aimed at enriching the skills of researchers, graduate students, and teachers with cutting-edge techniques and hands-on experience in developing applications for many-core processors with massively parallel computing resources like GPU accelerators.
tuwien Diploma Supplement on Innovation (2012 – 2013)
i²c Informatics Innovation Center, TU Wien
The innovation study curriculum provides a premium, hands-on further education in combination with a master/PhD of business informatics or computer science by not only fostering innovative thinking but also offering a solid education for entrepreneurial spirits, business developers, and/or innovation managers.

AWARDS

wko_noe Innovation Prize (1st place) (2020)
Lower Austrian Economic Chambers
Innovation price for companies and research institutions (category: Research).
rizup rizup GENIUS (1st place) (2020)
rizup – Lower Austria’s Agency for Founders
Ideas and startup award (category: R&D).
rsf Science and Business Award (Finalist) (2019)
Rudolf Sallinger Fonds
Award for research-based commercialization ideas.

TEACHING

supervision Supervision of bachelor, master and PhD students (2014 – Present)
Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien) and Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
ISTA Data science and scientific computing track core course (2017 – 2019)
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
Lecture unit on visualization.
mne_vienna Computational fabrication of structural color (September 2016)
Short course at the 42nd Micro and Nano Engineering Conference 2016
With the advent of 3D stereolithography, free-form fabrication became feasible in the nano- to micrometer range. This allows the convenient creation of microstructures that interfere with visible light to produce pigmentless color; an effect that can be accurately modeled with electromagnetic simulation. In this short course, we address the inverse problem in this context: Given user-specified color of a surface, which microstructure – when fabricated – would realize it? Formulated as a computational optimization problem, this course presents: (i) how to compute the associated gradients; (ii) effective geometric representations of the structures; and (iii) how fabrication constraints can be taken into account. (Link)
tuwien Rendering (May 2015 – September 2015)
Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien)
Basic and state-of-the-art methods of rendering. Offline methods such as ray and path tracing, photon mapping and many other algorithms are introduced and various refinement are explained. The basics of the involved physics, such as geometric optics, surface and media interaction with light and camera models are outlined. The apparatus of Monte Carlo methods is introduced which is heavily used in several algorithms and its refinement in the form of stratified sampling and the Metropolis-Hastings method is explained.
uci_cuba GPGPU (2014)
UCI University of Informatic Sciences, Cuba
Summer school on GPUPU.

INVITED TALKS

Plastics Cluster Automated mold design in digital process chains (7. April 2022)
Business Upper Austria KC, virtual
Plastics Cluster Automated mold design for additive tooling (5. November 2020)
ecoplus KC, virtual
Plastics Cluster Automated mold design for small-series manufacturing (28. August 2020)
ecoplus KC, Austria
UCL Exact anti-aliasing and approximate shape optimization (4. November 2015)
University College London, England
university_tokyo A physicist embracing computer graphics: Filtering, rendering, visualization and modeling (23. July 2015)
The University of Tokyo, Japan
ISTA Prefiltered anti-aliasing on parallel hardware (29. April 2015)
Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria
ujaen GPGPU in graphics and visualization (15. October 2014)
University of Jaén, Spain
czech_university Analytic Rasterization (30. April 2014)
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

reviewing Journal and conference reviewer (2010 – Present)
ACM ToG, Computer Graphics Forum, Siggraph, Siggraph Asia, CGI, GI, TVCJ, …
Conducting peer reviews of journal and conference submissions in Visual Computing and related fields.
eg2020 International Program Committee Member (2019)
Symposium on Computer Animation
sca2019 Short Papers Program Committee Member (2020)
Eurographics
pg2016 International Program Committee Member (2016)
Pacific Graphics
seminar Organizer (2016)
Symposium on Computational Fabrication
Interdisciplinary venue that brings together leading experts from academia and industry in the area of computer graphics, geometry processing, mechanical engineering, materials science, architecture, human-computer interaction, robotics, and applied math (link).
siggraph SIGGRAPH Asia Briefs and Poster Committee Member (2015 – 2016)
ACM SIGGRAPH
seminar Main organizer (October 2010 – November 2011)
Russian-Austrian Bilateral Scientific Seminar on Visual Computing
A workshop on various topics from Visual Computing to intensify academic exchange and to identify potential collaboration topics. The participants were Austrian and Russian computer scientists.

MISCELLANEOUS

european_commission Expert Counsel (2018 – 2019)
European Commission
On the IP Implications of the Development of 3D Printing (Project lead: Dinusha Mendis) (link).
ISTA Creator and Maintainer of LaTeX Template (2020 – Present)
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
The istaustriathesis document class is a LaTeX2e-based template for theses written at ISTA (link).
tuwien Creator and Maintainer of LaTeX Template (2014 – Present)
Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien)
The vutinfth document class is a LaTeX2e-based template for all theses written at the TU Wien Informatics (link).

FUNDING

ffg FFG Collective Research – DiProK (2021)
Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
Co-application with Business Upper Austria.
twist Postdoctoral TWIST Fellowship (2021)
TWIST Tech Transfer Department (ISTA)
Principal applicant.
european_research_council Proof of Concept (ERC PoC) – AutoMold (2018 – 2020)
European Research Council
Co-application with Bernd Bickel (ERC Starting Grant PI).