Professor Peter Wonka is a computer scientist with a research focus in computer vision, computer graphics, remote sensing, and machine learning.

Biography

Peter Wonka holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science (Dipl.-Ing.) in 1997, an M.Sc. in Urban Planning (Dipl.-Ing.) in 2002, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Dr. techn.) in 2001 from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

Before joining KAUST in 2011 as an Associate Professor of Computer Science, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology and served as Assistant and Associate Professor at Arizona State University. He is currently a Full Professor at KAUST. He has also held roles as the CS Program Chair and Interim Director of the Visual Computing Center.

Professor Wonka is the recipient of the National Science Foundation Career Award.

Research Interests

Professor Wonka’s research interests lie in computer vision, computer graphics, remote sensing, and machine learning. His current research focus is deep learning, generative modeling of images, videos and 3D scenes, 3D reconstruction, 3D computer vision, and 3D vision and language.

Awards and Distinctions

  • NSF CAREER Award, Dec 31 2006
  • Best Proposal Award for GAMEWORLD, Dec 31 2006
  • Best Paper Award at VAST, Dec 31 2006
  • 2nd place (Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Dec 31 2006
  • Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship, Dec 31 2002 - Dec 31 2003
  • Günther Enderle Award for the best paper at Eurographics , Dec 31 2002
  • Best Student Paper Award at Eurographics, Dec 31 2001

Education

Master of Science (M.S.)
Urban Planning, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 2002
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Computer Science, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 2001
Master of Science (M.S.)
Computer Science, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 1997

Research findings

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