Peter Wonka

Professor, Computer Science
Principal Investigator, Peter Wonka Research Group

peter.wonka@kaust.edu.sa

Deep learning Computer Vision computer graphics machine learning remote sensing

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