VISUAL COMPUTING - Key Persons
Astrid Berg studied Technical Mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology, where she received her doctorate in 2016 under Prof. Franz Schuster in the field of convex geometry. She gained professional experience in the public and private sector and is part of the Biomedical Image Informatics research group at VRVis since 2019.
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- Research Group
- Researcher in the Biomedical Image Informatics Research Group at VRVis
Bianca Burger studied Technical Mathematics (BSc) and Biomedical Engineering (MSc) at TU Wien and received her PhD in Computational Neuroscience from the Computational Imaging Research Lab (Medical University of Vienna) in 2023. She is a researcher in the Biomedical Image Informatics research group at VRVis and works on algorithms for the exploration of neuroscientific data.
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- Project Leader
- Senior Researcher
- Researcher in the Integrated Simulations Research Group at the VRVis Research Center for Virtual Reality
Andreas Buttinger-Kreuzhuber is a researcher in the Integrated Simulations research group at the VRVis Research Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization. In August 2021, he received his PhD under Prof. Günter Blöschl in the Vienna Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems on accurate and fast hydrodynamic modeling of fluvial and pluvial floods at large scales.
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- CEO
- Managing Director of the VRVis Center for Virtual Reality
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- Project Leader
- Researcher
- Senior Researcher
- Research Interests
- Researcher in the Integrated Simulation S Group of VRVis
Daniel Cornel received a BSc degree in Media Informatics from the Vienna University of Technology in 2011 and continued his studies with a Master's degree in Visual Computing, which he completed in 2014. During his studies he specialized in real-time rendering with a focus on the development of engines for video games. He completed his PhD on "Interactive visualization of simulation data to support spatial decisions" in 2020. Since 2014 he is a researcher in the Integrated Simulation s group of VRVis. For one of his recent work he received the EuroVis Best Paper Award 2019.
Research interests
Real-Time Rendering
Vegetation Rendering
GPU Computing
Daniel Cornel is shortlistet for the TÜV Austria Science Award
Daniel Cornel, researcher in our Integrated Simulation Group, was nominated for the TÜV Austria Science Award 2020 in the category Uni/FH.
Paul Bodenbenner joined the Interactive Visualization team of VRVis at the Graz location in January 2021. Within the scope of his Master's thesis in Telematics at the TU Graz, titled "Deformable 3D Reconstruction", he focused on ways of fast and high-quality reconstruction of deformed objects.
Gaia Romana De Paolis graduated in MSc Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2021. Since Spring 2022, she works as a researcher in the Biomedical Image Informatics Group at VRVis, developing machine learning and deep learning algorithms to detect anatomical structures in medical images.
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- Head of the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering
Günter Blöschl is Head of the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Director of the Centre for Water Resource Systems at the Vienna University of Technology and Chairman of the Vienna PhD Programme on Water Resource Systems. Günter Blöschl is also key researcher at VRVis.
Katja Bühler studied Mathematics (Dipl-math.) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology completing her degree in 1996. Following a one year research exchange at Centro de Computación Gráfica y Geometría Aplicada, Universidad Central de Venezuela, funded by the German DAAD, she moved to Austria to work towards a doctorate in computer science (Dr.techn.) at the Institute of Visual Computing & Human-Centered Technology, awarded to her by TU Wien in 2001. There she held also a position as assistant professor (Univ.Ass.) until 2002. She seamlessly continued her career as a senior researcher at VRVis and external lecturer at TU Wien. In 2003, she was promoted to Head of the Biomedical Image Informatics Group at VRVis. 2010-2020 she coordinated in addition the research area Complex Systems. In 2021 Katja Bühler took on the role of scientific director of VRVis.
Additionally she deepened her knowledge in strategic R&D management at INSEAD in 2010 and took part in the executive education program "Zukunft.Frauen" at the Austrian Chamber of Economics in 2020. Katja Bühler is regularly hired as a technical and scientific expert by the European Union and various international funding organizations, with a focus on visual computing, image analytics, AI, HPC and research data management, as well as the evaluation and monitoring of large-scale research (FET Flagship), research infrastructures and PPP projects.
Research Interests
Katja Bühler has many years of experience in developing innovation and research strategies and in leading their implementation as international basic and applied research projects in close cooperation with industry and science at international level. Her scientific roots are to be found in reliable computing and numerics, geometry processing and visualization. Since 2003, she and her team have been dedicated to the development of highly efficient methods to provide access to the information encoded in (biomedical) images and big data in life sciences. Her interdisciplinary group covers deep expertise in image analysis, artificial intelligence and classical machine learning, high-performance computing, data mining, visualization and human-computer interaction to create novel intelligent visual computing solutions for medicine, life sciences and, since recently, also manufacturing. The group's research results are continuously awarded various scientific prizes and led to several international patents with a strong focus on AI. The highly successful software resulting from the group's research helps for example radiologists to cope with multi-modal images and diagnostic tasks in their daily clinical routine, allows neuroscientists and cancer biologists to gain insight into highly heterogeneous, high dimensional data and supports the optimization of manufacturing processes.
Katja Bühler is densely integrated into an interdisciplinary scientific network. She is member of the management board of Austrian Bioimaging, associate editor of the journals Computers and Graphics, The Visual Computer, and Frontiers in Bioinformatics. She is chairman, IPC member and reviewer for various international conferences and an active member of international societies including Eurographics, MICCAI, GAMM and the Austrian Association of Neuroscience (ANA). She regularly acts as committee member for doctoral theses at international universities. Currently she is scientific advisor of the Austrian SEVA Project and part of the steering committee "GI Fachgruppe Visual Computing in der Medizin" of the German Gesellschaft für Informatik. Previously she was member of the steering committees of the EG VCBM (until 2019), the scientific advisory board of the German Society for Computer- and Robot-Assisted Surgery CURAC (2012-2014) and the French research infrastructure TEFOR.
Katja Bühler is nominated for the Women in Tech Award 2019 of the Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs and the Futurezone!
Awards
Microsoft Best Poster Förderpreis 2009
Epilog
[Translate to en:]
Interactive Exploration and Quantification of Industrial CT Data.
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- Head of Internal IT Services
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- Expert Research Engineer
- Expert Research Engineer / Research Group
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
Oliver Deussen graduated at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and currently is professor at the University of Konstanz, one of the few Excellence Universities in Germany. He also serves as visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Science in Shenzhen (SIAT). From 2019 to 2020, he served as President of the Eurographics Association. He is speaker of the Excellence Cluster "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour" at the University of Konstanz. His areas of interest are modeling and rendering of complex systems, non-photorealistic rendering, sampling theory as well as information visualization. He also contributed papers to geometry processing and image-based modeling methods.
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- Researcher
- Researcher at VRVis
Paul Ellinger is a researcher at VRVis and is currently working on his Master´s thesis.
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
- Scientific Director and Member of the Executive Board at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
Philipp Slusallek is the scientific director and member of the executive board at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), where he has been leading the research area "Agents and Simulated Reality" since 2008. Prof. Slusallek is the co-founder and strategic director of the European AI initiative CLAIRE. At Saarland University, he has been holding the chair of Computer Graphics since 1999, co-initiated the Cluster of Excellence "Multimodal Computing and Interaction" in 2007, and was director of research of the Intel Visual Computing Institute in Saarbrücken from 2009 to 2017.
Before coming to Saarland, he worked as a visiting assistant professor at Stanford University, USA. Prof. Slusallek is a member of acatech, a Fellow of the Eurographics Association, and was a member of the European High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence. He studied physics in Frankfurt and Tübingen and received his PhD in computer science in Erlangen in 1995.
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
- Professor
Since October 2019, Prof. Dr. Anna Vilanova is full professor in visual analytics (VA) at the department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Previously, she was working as an associate professor within the Computer Graphics & Visualization Group at EEMCS at the University of Deft for 6 years. From 2002 to 2013, she was an assistant professor at the Biomedical Image Analysis group of the Biomedical Engineering Department at Eindhoven University of Technology. She is currently leading a research group on visual analytics (VA), multi-valued image analysis and visualization, focusing on VA for high dimensional data and explainable AI. Her work centres mainly on biomedical applications. During her professional career, she received two grants funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). At present, Anna Vilanova is the president of the European Association of Computer Graphics (EUROGRAPHICS) and an elected member of the IEEE VIS Steering Committee (VSC).
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
Reinhard Klein studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Tübingen, Germany, from where he received his MS in Mathematics (Dipl.-Math.) in 1989 and his PhD in computer science in 1995. In 1999, he received an appointment as a lecturer ("Habilitation") in computer science also from the University of Tübingen, with a thesis in computer graphics. After his habilitation, he became an Associate Professor at the University of Darmstadt, Germany, and head of the research group Animation and Image Communication at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics.
Since October 2000, he is professor at the University of Bonn and director of the Institute of Computer Science II. His research interests lie in the field of computer graphics with an emphasis on rendering, geometry processing, simulation, and visualization.
Wolfgang Pribyl is part of the Advisory Board of VRVis.