Bernd Bickel
About Bernd Bickel
- Affiliations
- The Walt Disney Company, Disney Research Zürich, Assistant Professor
- Technical University of Berlin
- ETH Zürich
- Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria)
- Location
- Austria
- Bio
SIGGRAPH Asia 2019
Bend Bickel is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), where he leads the Computer Graphics and Digital Fabrication group. Before this appointment, he was a Research Scientist at Disney Research Zurich and a Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Berlin. He is a computer scientist interested in computer graphics and its overlap into animation, biomechanics, material science, and digital fabrication. His main objective is to push the boundaries of how digital content can be efficiently created, simulated, and reproduced.
SIGGRAPH 2012
Bernd Bickel is a part-time visiting professor at TU Berlin and a post-doctoral researcher at Disney Research Zurich. His research interests include computer graphics and its applications in animation, biomechanics, material science, and computational design for digital fabrication. Recent work includes next generation 3D surface scanner devices, performance capture, measuring and modeling the deformation behavior of soft tissue, and animation tools. Bernd received a M.Sc. in Computer Science in 2006 and spent nine month at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories under the supervision of Prof. Hanspeter Pfister. He wrote his PhD thesis at ETH Zurich in the Computer Graphics Lab headed by Prof. Markus Gross and defended in November 2010.
- Awards and Recognition
- SIGGRAPH 2017 Significant New Researcher Award: Bickel
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
- Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2021: Technical Papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2022: Technical Papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2024: Technical Papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2024: Technical Papers
- Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2012: Technical Papers
Conference Contributions
- Experiences
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- Presentations
- Sessions Moderated
- “Functionality-aware retargeting of mechanisms to 3D shapes” by Zhang
- “Spec2Fab: a reducer-tuner model for translating specifications to 3D prints” by Chen, Levin, Sitthi-amorn, Didyk and Matusik
- “OpenFab: a programmable pipeline for multi-material fabrication” by Vidimče, Wang, Ragan-Kelley and Matusik
- “Worst-case structural analysis” by Zhou, Panetta and Zorin
- “InfraStructs: fabricating information inside physical objects for imaging in the terahertz region” by Willis and Wilson
- “Reduced-order shape optimization using offset surfaces”
- “Computational design of twisty joints and puzzles”
- “Fab forms: customizable objects for fabrication with validity and geometry caching”
- “LinkEdit: interactive linkage editing using symbolic kinematics” by Thomaszewski
Other Information
- Roles
- Awardee
- Birds of Feather Presenter
- Course Presenter
- Emerging Technologies Presenter
- Studio (SIGGRAPH Lab) Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Jury Member
- Technical Papers Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Technical Papers Organizing Committee Member
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