Wolfgang Stuerzlinger - Biography
Dr. Stuerzlinger has been programming computers since the age of 14. At
the age of 15, at the request of his father he began developing software for
tax consultants. By 1989 this family-run company was the market leader in his
native Austria, a position it still retains.
Dr. Stuerzlinger graduated with a Doctorate in Computer Science from the
Technical University in Vienna, Austria in 1993. Then he moved to the
Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. Supported by an
Erwin-Schrödinger fellowship Dr. Stuerzlinger visited the Department of
Computer Science at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1997
(hosted by Prof. F. Brooks).
In 1998, Dr. Stuerzlinger was appointed to the Department of Computer Science
at York University in Toronto, Canada. There, he is an associate professor and
a member of the interdisciplinary Centre
for Vision Research (CVR).
While in Austria and at UNC, Dr. Stuerzlinger's research interests
concentrated on various areas of computer graphics, as well as parallel and
high-performance systems.
At York University he is leading the Interactive Systems Research Group.
Dr. Stuerzlinger is a leading researcher in three-dimensional user interfaces
and virtual reality. Additionally, he is very active in the fields of
human-computer interaction and computer-supported collaborative work.
In general, his research aims to find innovative solutions for real-world
problems and is often inter-disciplinary.
Current research projects include better user interfaces for two-dimensional
and three-dimensional design applications, meeting room environments that
actively support collaboration, user interface techniques that are based
on human perception principles, new virtual reality hardware and software,
a novel kind of display system that can display very vivid images,
and many other projects.
Dr. Stuerzlinger is a member of two journal editorial boards and a member of
numerous international program committees. He also chaired several
international scientific events.
Dr. Stuerzlinger has supervised more than 25 graduate students to
completion and published more than 70 refereed scientific publications.
His group currently consists of a postdoc and 10 graduate students.
