About myself

I am a visiting assistant professor in the Computer Science Department and Artificial Intelligence Lab of Stanford University. My mentor and host in Stanford is Prof. Sebastian Thrun. I am also the head of the research group 3D Video and Vision-based Graphics in the Max-Planck-Center for Visual Computing and Communication.

Short Curriculum Vitae

4/2007 - today: Visiting assistant professor, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
9/2006 - today: Head of research group ``3D Video and Vision-based Graphics'' within the Max-Planck-Center for Visual Computing and Communication (Saarbrücken/Stanford)
12/2005 - 8/2006: Postdoctoral researcher at MPI Informatik
12/2005: Dr.-Ing. (PhD) degree in Computer Science, MPI / University of Saarland
5/2001 - 11/2005: PhD student in the Computer Graphics Group of the Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany
4/2001: Diplom (MS) degree in Computer Science, University of Saarland, Germany
10/2000: M.Sc. degree in Artificial Intelligence (Intelligent Robotics), University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Awards

3/2009: EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award 2009
6/2007: Otto Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck-Society 2006
10/2006: Dr. Eduard Martin Award for the best dissertation in the faculty of engineering 2005/2006, University of Saarland
4/2005: ATI Fellowship 2005/2006
10/2000: Best M.Sc. Student in Artificial Intelligence Award, University of Edinburgh
10/2000: John Howe Award, University of Edinburgh

Program Committees

I am Program Co-Chair of

the Fifth International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DPVT 2010)

I am / have been a member of the program committees of

EUROGRAPHICS 2010 (Full papers)
IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing (WMVC2009) - an IEEE Winter Vision Meeting
EUROGRAPHICS 2009 (Short papers)
IMMERSCOM 2009
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and EXPO 2008
GRAPP 2008
2nd Workshop on HUMAN MOTION - Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation, in conjunction with ICCV 2007
IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2007)
GRAPP 2007
MIRAGE 2007

Reviewing

I have served as a reviewer for many international conferences and journals, including ACM SIGGRAPH, EUROGRAPHICS, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, IEEE Pacific Graphics, ICIP, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, etc.

Further Activities