Curriculum Vitae

Personal information

Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Dieter Schmalstieg

Born 1971 in Vienna, Austria

Education

• 1977-1981: Primary School (Volksschule) in Krems, Austria
• 1981-1989: Secondary School (Gymnasium) in Krems (major in mathematics and sciences)
• June 1989: Graduation (Matura) from the Bundesgymnasium Krems with highest distinction
• 1989-1993: Master program in computer science at the Vienna University of Technology
• November 1993: Master of science graduation "Diplom-Ingenieur der Informatik" from Vienna University of Technology with highest distinction; thesis "StoryBoard - A Programming Language for Computer Animation"
• 1994-1995: Postgraduate studies in Computer Science at Stanford University, California, USA (Fulbright stipend)
• 1995-1997: Doctoral program in computer science at the Vienna University of Technology
• April 1997: PhD graduation "Doktor der technischen Wissenschaften" with highest distinction; thesis "The Remote Rendering Pipeline - Managing Geometry and Bandwidth in Distributed Virtual Environments"
• June 2001: Habilitation für Praktische Informatik, Vienna University of Technology

Professional

• 1990-1991: Self-employed as a software developer
• 1991-1993: Teaching assistant at Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
• 1993-1994, 1995-1996: Research assistant at Vienna University of Technology
• 1996: Part-time work for multimedia developer "01 EDV-Consulting und Development GmbH" in Vienna
• 1996-2001: Faculty member (Universitätsassistent) at Vienna University of Technology
• 1998: Visiting scientist at the Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics (Fraunhofer CRCG), Providence, Rhode Island, USA
• 1999: Visiting scientist at the University of Tübingen, Germany
• August 2000: Joined newly founded Interactive Media Systems group at Vienna University of Technology
• October 2001: Appointment as associate professor (Außerordentlicher Universitätprofessor) at Vienna University of Technology
• October 2004-current: Appointment as full professor for computer graphics and virtual reality at Graz University of Technology, Austria
• November 2008: Director of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Handheld Augmented Reality
• January 2012: Head of the Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision, Graz University of Technology

Teaching experience

Courses held at Vienna University of Technology 1991-2005

• 1991-2000: Teaching assistant on "Introduction to computer science 2" (basic programming skills), "Algorithms and data structures 1" (basic programming skills), " Algorithms and data structures 2" (advanced programming skills)
• 1993-1994: Teaching assistant on "Computer graphics" (basic course in computer graphics)
• 1995-2000: Teaching assistant on "Computer graphics 2", "Computer graphics 3" (advanced courses in computer graphics)
• 1994-2004: Seminars: "Introductory seminar on computer science", "Seminar on computer graphics", "Research seminar on virtual reality"
• 1997-2005: Lecture and lab "Virtual Reality"
• 2000-2004: Seminar on "Foundations of Scientific Work"
• 2002-2004: Lecture "Location Based Services"
• 2004 Lecture and lab "Multimedia Interfaces"

Courses held at Graz University of Technology since 2004

• since 2004: Lecture and lab "Real Time Graphics"
• 2004-2009: Research seminar on "Virtual Reality"
• since 2005: Lecture and lab "Virtual Reality"
• 2005-2006: Lecture and lab "Image Analysis and Computer Graphics"
• 2005-2006: Lecture and lab "Visual Information Systems"
• 2006-2009: Lecture "Computer Graphics"
• 2006-2009: Lecture "Scene Graph Programming"
• since 2005: Undergraduate Seminar "Introduction to Scientific Work"
• 2008-2009: Lecture and lab "Augmented Reality"
• since 2008: Postgraduate seminar "Scientific Methods"
• since 2009: Lecture and lab "Distributed Systems"
• since 2010: Lecture and lab "Real Time Graphics 2"
  

Student supervision

• More than 100 undergraduate projects, diploma theses
• Co-advised PhD graduates
  • Dr. Chris Faisstnauer (graduation June 2001)
  • Dr. Gerd Hesina (graduation June 2001)
  • Dr. Michael Wimmer (graduation June 2001)
  • Dr. Peter Wonka (graduation June 2001)
  • Dr. Klaus Dorfmüller-Ulhaas (graduation Nov. 2002)
  • Dr. Thomas Psik (graduation Nov. 2005)
  • Dr. Manfred Klopschitz (graduation May 2012)
• Advised PhD graduates
  • Dr. Gerhard Reitmayr (graduation May 2004)
  • Dr. Hannes Kaufmann (graduation May 2004)
  • Dr. Bernhard Reitinger (graduation Dec. 2005)
  • Dr. Istvan Barakonyi (graduation Nov. 2006)
  • Dr. Ernst Kruijff (graduation Feb. 2007)
  • Dr. Alexander Bornik (graduation May 2007)
  • Dr. Daniel Wagner (graduation Oct. 2007)
  • Dr. Joseph Newman (graduation May 2008)
  • Dr. Denis Kalkofen (graduation Dec. 2009)
  • Dr. Judith Mühl (graduation Dec. 2010)
  • Dr. Erick Mendez (graduation Dec. 2010)
  • Dr. Markus Sareika (graduation Dec. 2010)
  • Dr. Gerhard Schall (graduation Feb. 2011)
  • Dr. Marc Streit (graduation Apr. 2011)
  • Dr. Bernhard Kainz (graduation May 2011)
    
  • Dr. Manuela Waldner (graduation Nov. 2011)
    
  • Dr. Alexander Lex (graduation Mar. 2012)
    

Guest lectures

• Spring 1999: Lecture "Multimedia Programming" at the Fachhochschule Hagenberg, Austria
• 1999-2003: Adjunct professor of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence RI, USA. Lecturer on "Immersion" for the International Certificate Program on New Media

Projects and Grants

• "Efficient remote rendering in distributed virtual environments" (Austrian Science Fund P11392MAT, 1996)
• "Studierstube - An augmented reality environment for scientific visualization" (Austrian Science Fund P12074INF, 1997).
• "Lodestar - A level of detail generator for VRML" (Funded by MicroGrafx, 1996).
• "Virtual Reality for Space-Craft Operation" (Funded by European Space Agency, 1998)
• "Platform for Animation and Virtual Reality" (European Union FMRX-CT-96-0036, 1997)
• "Real-Time Visualization of Urban Environments" (Austrian Science Fund P13867INF, 1999)
• "VRVis - Research Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization" (Austrian Funding Program K-Plus, 2000)
• "Mobile Collaborative Augmented Reality" (Austrian Science Fund P14470INF, 2000)
• "Virtual Showcases" (European Union IST-2000-28610, 2001)
• "Lab@Future" (European Union IST-2001-34204, 2002)
• "Mobile Augmented Reality für Drahtlose Informations-Systeme" (Austrian ministry of science grant Forschungsinfrastrukturvorhaben TUWP16, 2002)
• "Collaborative Augmented Reality for Teaching" (TUW grant #GZ9006.10/003/2001, 2002)
• "Augmented Reality for Pervasive Computing" (Austrian Science Fund #Y193, 2002)
• "Educating Spatial Intelligence Using Augmented Reality" (Austrian Science Fund P16803, 2003)
• "ARIS*ER - Augmented Reality in Surgery" (European Union MRTN-CT-2004-512400, 2004)
• "A Handheld Augmented Reality Museum Guide" (Austrian Science Fund L32-N04, 2005)
• "GenView - Analysis of Genetical and Clinical Data with Information Visualization and Multimodal User Interfaces" (Zukunftsfonds Steiermark, 2005)
• "PRESENCCIA - Presence: Research Encompassing Sensory Enhancement, Neuroscience, Cerebral-Computer Interfaces and Applications" (Funded by European Union Integrated Project FP6-2004-IST-4-27731, 2006)
• "IPCity - Presence and Interaction in Urban Environments" (Funded by European Union Integrated Project FP6-2004-IST-4-27571, 2006)
• "Vidente - Augmented Reality System for Visualisation of Subsurface Utility Networks". Funded by Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG, BRIDGE Program, No. 811000, 2006
• "Doctoral College for the Confluence of Vision and Graphics" (Funded by FWF, grant no. W1209-N15, 2007)
• "Genopticum – Visual Data Mining for Genetic Data" (Joint project with Graz Medical University, funded by FFG 813398, FIT-IT Visual Computing, 2007)
• "POMAR3D - Position and Orientation Technology for Mobile Augmented Reality" (Joint project with TeleConsult GesmbH, Funded by FFG, Austrian Space Agency, 2007)
• "VIPEM - Visual Analytics for Personalized Medicine". Joint project with Graz Medical University. Funded by FWF, Translational Research Program, 2007
• "HydroSys - Advanced spatial analysis tools for on-site environmental monitoring and management". Funded by European Union STREP FP7-ICT-2007-2-2254416, 2007
  
• "IMPPACT - Image-Based Multi-Scale Physiological Planning for Ablation Cancer Treatment". Funded by European Union STREP FP7-ICT-2007-2-233877, 2007
  
• "MARCUS - Mobile Augmented Reality and Context in Urban Scenarios". Funded by European Union, PEOPLE program, International Research Staff Exchange Scheme, 2007
• "Handheld Augmented Reality", Christian Doppler Laboratory, funded by Christian Doppler Society, 2008
• "Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Clinical Forensic Imaging", Joint project with University of Graz and Medical University Graz, funded by Ludwig Boltz Society, 2008.
• "SMART Vidente - Subsurface Mobile Augmented Reality Technology". Funded by FFG 820922, FIT-IT Visual Computing program, 2009.
• "NARKISSOS - Real-Time Garment Fitting and Visualization on the Customer Body". Funded by FFG, BRIDGE program, 2009.
• "Deskotheque - Spatial Awareness in Collaborative Multi-Display Environments". Funded by FFG, BRIDGE program, 2009.
• "InGeneIous - Visualization of biomolecular and clinical data". Funded by FFG, BRIDGE program, 2009.
• "Caleydoplex - Collaborative Information Exploration". Funded by FWF  P22902-N23, 2010.
• "Managed Volume Processsing on the GPU", Funded by FWF P-23329, 2011.
• "Computer Illustrated Reality", Funded by FWF P-24021, 2011.
• "Diagnosis of Tumor Heterogeneity", funded by the program "Human Technology Interface" of the government of Styria, GZ:A3-22.M-5/2012-21, 2012.

Scientific activities

• Over 200 peer reviewed scientific publications
• Chair of the EUROGRAPHICS Working Group on Virtual Environments (2000-2011)
• Conference functions
  • Organizing Chair of the 5th EUROGRAPHICS workshop on Virtual Environments
  • IEEE Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)
    • General Chair 2002
    • Program Chair 2003, 2006
    • Area Chair (2004, 2005, 2007, 2008)
    • Publicity Chair 2004
    • Financial Chair 2005
  • International Liason Co-Chair of IEEE Virtual Reality 2004
  • State of the Art Report Co-Chair of EUROGRAPHICS 2007
  • Program Chair of the 2009 Joint Virtual Reality Conference of EGVE - ICAT - EuroVR
  • Program Chair of the 2010 IEEE Virtual Reality Conference
    
  • Program Chair of the 2013 IEEE Virtual Reality Conference
    
• Program committee member of:
  • ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2010
  • ACM Virtual Reality Software Technology VRST 2007, 2008, 2010
    
  • ACM Web3D/VRML Symposium 2000, 2001
  • Computer Vision Winter Workshop (2002-2011)
  • EUROGRAPHICS Annual Conference 2004, 2006, 2011
  • EUROGRAPHICS Tutorials 2008
  • EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Virtual Environments (1999-2009)
  • IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISAR/ISMAR 2000-2010)
  • IEEE International Workshop on ARToolKit (ART02)
  • IEEE Virtual Reality (2003-2011)
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2005 (IJCAI-05)
  • International Symposium on Visual Computing (since 2008)
  • Joint Virtual Reality Conference (2010, 2011)
  • Joint Virtual Reality Conference 2012
  • Pacific Graphics 2002
  • PERVASIVE 2004
  • VMV 2012
• Reviewing for
  • ACM 3D User Interface Symposium
  • ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (CHI)
  • ACM User Interface Software & Technology
  • computers & graphics
  • EUROGRAPHICS Annual Conference
  • EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Rendering Techniques
  • EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Virtual Environments
  • IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • IEEE Visualization
  • Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) conference
  • International Journal of Human Computer Studies
  • International Symposium on Wearable Computers
  • Joint EUROGRAPHICS-IEEE TCCG Symposium on Visualization
  • Journal of Location Based Services
  • PRESENCE - Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
  • SIGGRAPH Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
  • SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics
  • Summer Conference on Computer Graphics
  • Winter School on Computer Graphics
• Journal fuctions
  • Associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
    
  • Editorial advisory board member of computers & graphics
  • Editorial board member of the Open Virtual Reality Journal
  • Guest editor of Virtual Reality (Springer), special issue on Augmented Reality 2009
  • Guest editor of computers & graphics (Elsevier), special section on Augmented Reality 2012
• Memberships in professional societies and interest groups
  • Steering committee member of IEEE/ACM Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the VRVis Research Center, Vienna, Austria
  • ACM member
  • IEEE Computer Society member
  • EUROGRAPHICS member
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences

Awards, stipends, achievements

• 1989: Ring of honor from the Bundesgymnasium Krems for excellent performance during secondary school
• 1991: Best computer program of the issue June/Juli 1991 awarded by the german computer magazine "toolbox"
• 1994, 1995 Leistungsstipendium der Technisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Technischen Universität Wien (award for excellent performance as a student granted by the Vienna University of Technology)
• 1994 Fulbright scholarship for postgraduate studies at Stanford University, California
• 1995 Förderungsstipendium der Technisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Technischen Universität Wien (research grant for students awarded by by the Vienna University of Technology)
• 1996: Best paper award at the "13th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research", Vienna, for the paper "Implementing Gibsonian Virtual Environments"
• 1997: Grant from the Austrian Science Fund to publish PhD thesis in the computer graphics and computer vision series (ed. A. Pinz) of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG)
• 2000: Honorably mention in the IEEE Virtual Reality 2000 best paper competition for the paper "Priority Round Robin Scheduling for Very Large Virtual Environments"
• 2000: "Fraunhofer Haus der Graphischen Datenverarbeitung" best paper award competition (Darmstadt, Germany) for the paper "Using Transparent Props for Interaction with the Virtual Table" (second rank)
• 2002: START prize - career award by the Austrian Science Fund FWF for young researchers
• 2003: 1st rank in the competition "Creative Industries Multimedia 2003" held by Wiener Wirtschaftsförderungsfonds (Vienna foundation for economy promotion) for the proposal "Mozart's Magic Book". Project team together with ECON Datenverarbeitungs-GesmbH.
• 2003: Nominee for the best paper award of the INI-GraphicsNet 2003 (organized by Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany) for the paper "The Studierstube Augmented Reality Project"
• 2004: Best paper award (3rd prize) of computers & graphics (vol. 27) for "Real-time View-dependent Image Warping to Correct Non-linear Distortion for Curved Virtual Showcase Displays"
• 2007: Rank 7 in the citation index of all Austrian computer science researchers (over 100 listed) according to a study on computer science and communication research in Austria, conducted on behalf of the Austrian ministry of traffic, innovation and technology.
• 2007: Best paper award at the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR'07) for the paper "Interactive Focus and Context Visualization for Augmented Reality" (Denis Kalkofen, Erick Mendez, Dieter Schmalstieg).
• 2007: Membership in the of the Austrian Academy of Science ("Junge Kurie")
• 2008: Best paper award at the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR'08) for the paper "Pose Tracking from Natural Features on Mobile Phones" (Daniel Wagner, Gerhard Reitmayr, Alessandro Mulloni, Tom Drummond, Dieter Schmalstieg)
• 2008: Two national awards in the competition "Staatspreis Multimedia und e-Business" together with industrial partner Imagination GmbH for works based on Augmented Reality technology on mobile phones
• 2009: Dr. Wolfgang Houska Award of Bank-Austria-Privatstiftung for the project "Vidente"
• 2010: Best student paper award at Graphics Interface 2010 for the paper "Visual Links Across Applications" (Manuela Waldner, Werner Puff, Mark Streit, Alexander Lex, Dieter Schmalstieg)
• 2011: Honorable Mention Award at ACM CHI 2011 for the paper "Importance-Driven Compositing Window Management" (Manuela Waldner, Markus Steinberger, Raphael Grasset, Dieter Schmalstieg)
• 2011: Best paper award at the ACM Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering for the paper "Using Perceptual Features to Accelerate Ray-based Image Generation" (Bernhard Kainz, Stefan Hauswiesner, Denis Kalkofen, Dieter Schmalstieg)
• 2011: Best Paper Award at IEEE Information Visualization 2011 for the paper "Context-Preserving Visual Links" (Markus Steinberger, Manuela Waldner, Marc Streit, Alexander Lex, Dieter Schmalstieg)
• 2012: IEEE Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award in recognition for seminal technical achievement in Augmented Reality