Markus Hadwiger
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- VRVis GmbH (Vienna Research for Visual Computing)
Other / Past Affiliation(s):
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Bio:
SIGGRAPH Asia 2022
Markus Hadwiger is a professor of computer science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, where he leads the High-Performance Visualization research group at the KAUST Visual Computing Center. His research interests are extreme-scale visual computing, in particular volume and flow visualization, biological visualization, differential geometry and mathematical physics in visualization, multi-resolution and out-of-core techniques, and GPU algorithms. He has been involved in many courses and tutorials about volume rendering and visualization at ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, IEEE Visualization, and Eurographics. He can be contacted at markus.hadwiger@kaust.edu.sa.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2018
Markus Hadwiger is an Associate Professor in computer science and the Visual Computing Center (VCC) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, which he joined in 2009. He leads the High-Performance Visualization research group at VCC, where his research interests include extreme-scale visual computing and visualization, volume visualization, medical visualization, large-scale image and volume processing, multi-resolution techniques, data streaming and out-of-core processing, interactive segmentation, and GPU algorithms and architectures. He is a co-author of the book Real-Time Volume Graphics published in 2006.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2013
Markus Hadwiger is an Assistant Professor in computer science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and head of the High-Performance Visualization group at the Geometric Modeling and Scientific Visualization Center. Before joining KAUST, he was a Senior Researcher at VRVis Research Center in Vienna. He received a PhD in computer science from the Vienna University of Technology in 2004. He is a co-author of the book Real-Time Volume Graphics. His research interests include petascale visual computing and scientific visualization, volume rendering, large-scale image processing, and GPU algorithms and architecture.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2008
Markus Hadwiger is a senior researcher at the VRVis Research Center in Vienna. He received his PhD in computer science from the Technische Universität Wien in 2004 and has been a researcher at VRVis since 2000, working in the Basic Research on Visualization group and the Medical Visualization group. He has been involved in several courses and tutorials about volume rendering and visualisation at ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE Visualization, and Eurographics. He is a co-author of the book Real-Time Volume Graphics published by A K Peters.
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