Curriculum Vitae

Wolfgang Stürzlinger

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Personal Information

• Born in Wels, Austria.
• Languages: German, English, French.

Education

• Dec. 2000: Habilitation (Dr. habil.) in Computer Science, Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz, Austria. Thesis title: Bildgenerierung (in German).
• Feb. 1991 - Apr. 1993: Graduate student at the Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria. Dr. (Ph.D) in Computer Science, Apr. 1993. Advisor: Prof. W. Barth, thesis title: Radiosity with Voronoi Diagrams and Discontinuity Meshes (in German).
• Oct. 1985 - Nov. 1989: Student at the Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria. Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc) in Computer Science, Nov. 1989. Advisor: Prof. Brockhaus, thesis title: C-Compiler for the VIP-RISC processor (in German).

Professional Positions

• Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, York University.
• Member of the Graduate Program in Computer Science, Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University.
• Member of the Centre for Vision Research, York University.

Employment & Sabbatical Visits

• July 2003 - present: Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, York University, Toronto, Canada.
• Feb. 2005 - Apr. 2005: Visiting Professor, InSitu @ Univ. Paris-Sud, France, AR Group @ Technical Univ. of Munich, Germany, Institute for Simulation and Graphics @ Univ. of Magdeburg, Germany (3 weeks each).
• Sept. 1998 - June 2003: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, York University, Toronto, Canada.
• Apr. 1998 - Aug. 1998: Postgraduate researcher at Dept. of Graphics and Parallel Processing (GUP), Univ. of Linz, Austria.
• Jan. 1997 - Mar. 1998: Visiting scholar at Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, USA.
• Feb. 1995 - Dec. 1996: Postgraduate researcher at Dept. of Graphics and Parallel Processing (GUP), Univ. of Linz, Austria.
• Oct. 1992 - Jan. 1995: Univ. Assistant (research, teaching and administrative duties) at Dept. of Graphics and Parallel Processing (GUP), Univ. of Linz, Austria.
• Feb. 1991 - Sept. 1992: Univ. Assistant (research, teaching and administrative duties) at Institute of Computer Graphics, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria.
• July 1982 - present: Cofounder of RZL Computer Software GesmbH, Austria, producing software for tax consultants. Until 1989 systems programmer, 1989 - 1991 head of programming, and since 1991 consulting activities. WWW page: http://www.rzl.at

Research Projects

Publications

Patents

• W. Stuerzlinger, Collaborative Pointing Devices, US patent 7,193,608 (Google Patent Search), 2007
• L. Whitehead, G. Ward, W. Stuerzlinger, H. Seetzen, High dynamic range display devices, US patents US6891672 (Google Patent Search), US7106505 (Google Patent Search), US7172297, US7413307, US7413309, US7403332, China patent ZL02805551.9, Hong Kong patent HK1069212.
• L. Whitehead, G. Ward, W. Stuerzlinger, H. Seetzen, HDR Displays with Overlapping Dual Modulation, US patent US7419267.
• L. Whitehead, G. Ward, W. Stuerzlinger, H. Seetzen, HDR Displays Having Location Specific Modulation, US patent US7377652.
• L. Whitehead, G. Ward, W. Stuerzlinger, H. Seetzen, Calibration of Displays Having Spatially-Variable Backlight, US patent US7370979.
• Several other patents have been filed or are in preparation.

Awards, Fellowships, Honours

• Certificate of Appreciation (for outstanding leadership), IEEE Technical Committee on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Mar. 2008.
• Merit Award, York University, Nov. 2005.
• Featured on York University's newly redesigned research WWW Site, Oct. 2003.
• Junior Faculty Research Award, York University, 1999-2002.
• Erwin-Schrödinger Fellowship, Austrian Science Foundation (FWF), No. TEC-J01317, Intuitive Three-dimensional Modeling, Oct. 1996.
• Günther Enderle Award (best technical paper) for Eurographics '96 paper, Three Dimensional Image Cache for Virtual Reality, Aug. 1996. Together with G. Schaufler.

Editorial Boards, Scientific Program Committees, Reviewing

• Member of IEEE 3D UI Steering Committee, 2006-.
• Member of editorial board for journal of graphics tools, 2001-.
• Member of editorial board for Journal of WSCG, 2001-2005.
• Chair and program chair for IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2007.
• Co-chair for IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2006, 2008.
• Publicity chair for ACM UIST 2005
• Co-organizer for IEEE VR 2005 Workshop on New Directions in 3D User Interfaces.
• Co-chair and program committee co-chair for Graphics Interface 2002.
• Program committee co-chair for Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments 2002.
• Posters chair for Graphics Interface 2000
• Member of organizing committee for ACPC Paragraph Workshop 1994.
• Program committee membership
• IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2005-2008, 2010
• ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2001, 2005-2006, 2009-2010
• Foundations of Digital Games 2010
• IEEE and ACM Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2005-2009
• ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2003, 2007-2009
• IEEE TIC-STH Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics 2009
• IEEE Virtual Reality 2001-2002, 2007-2009
• ACM Futureplay 2008-2009
• IFIP Interact 2005, 2007
• IEEE 3-D Imaging and Modeling (3DIM) 2007
• Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments 2002, 2004, 2006
• Eurographics Sketch-Based Modeling 2005-2006
• IEEE Procams 2006
• Eurographics 2005
• NordiCHI Short Papers 2004
• ACM SIGGRAPH Posters 2004
• Graphics Interface 2000-2003
• International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics and Visualization 1996-2000
• Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 1998
• Compugraphics 1995-1997
• Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization 1996
• Reviewer for many Canadian and international funding organizations as well as for many international journals and conferences.

Professional Memberships

• ACM, IEEE, CHCCS (Canada), Eurographics, GI (Germany), ÖGI, OCG (Austria)

Invited Talks, Courses, Panels, etc.

• Guidelines for Developing 3D User Interfaces, Univ. Stuttgart, Germany, June 2009.
• 3D User Interfaces: Design, Implementation, Usability, together with 4 others, course at ACM CHI 2009, March 2009.
• 3D Interaction for Desktops and Games, Invited talk at ACM Futureplay 2008, Toronto, Nov. 2008.
• Next Generation 3D Manipulation Techniques, Dagstuhl Seminar on Virtual Realities, Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany, June 2008.
• Next Generation 3D Interface Techniques, Presentation at Panel "3D User Interfaces: Present and Future", IEEE 3DUI Symposium, March 2008.
• The Future of User Interfaces in Web 2.0, Presentation at CASCON Workshop on User Interface Design for Desktop and Web 2.0 Applications, Oct 2007.
• Collaborative Creation of 3D Digital Models, Univ. of York, United Kingdom, June 2006, Univ. of Ontario Inst. of Technology, April 2007.
• Gestalt-Based Object Group Selection, Centre for Vision Research, York Univ., Feb. 2007.
• Collaborative Creation of 3D Digital Models, Univ. of Paris-Sud, France, TU Munich, Univ. of Munich, Univ of Magdeburg, Univ. of Braunschweig, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany, Univ. of Klagenfurt, Austria, March-September 2005.
• Model for non-Expert Text Entry Speed on 12-Button Phone Keypads and High Dynamic Range Display Systems, Microsoft Research, Redmond, April 2004.
• Mentor for ThinkTank at Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference, Toronto, Jan. 2004.
• Virtual Lego: A Conceptual 3D Design System, TorCHI (Toronto Region's special interest group on Computer-Human Interaction), Dec. 2002.
• Efficient Manipulation of Virtual Environments, Graz University of Techology, Austria, June 2002.
• Efficient 3D Manipulation, Knowledge Media Design Institute Lecture Series, Univ. of Toronto, Apr. 2001.
• Optimized Image Generation Techniques in Computer Graphics, Centre for Vision Research, York University, Nov. 1998.
• Real-time Walkthrough of Massive Models, Univ. Ulm, D, July 1998.
• Reconstructing Material Properties from Video Images, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, Dec. 1996.
• Optimizing the Local Pass, Dagstuhl Seminar on Global Illumination, Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany, June 1996.
• Computer Graphics Research at the Univ. of Linz, Technical Univ. of Brno, CZ, Apr. 1996.
• Multimedia Demo for EXPO 1993 in Seoul, Korea, Hagenberg, A, Oct. 1994.
• Realistic Image Generation with Radiosity Methods, Univ. Linz, A, Feb. 1994.
• Radiosity with Voronoi Diagrams, Cornell Univ., Princeton Univ., USA, July 1992.

Training of Highly Qualified Personnel

Postdoctoral researchers

• Sushil Bhakar, York University, 2009-2009.

PhD theses

• Rob Teather, TBD, York University, 2008-
• Ahmed Arif, TBD, York University, 2006-
• Arindam Das, TBD, York University, 2005-
• Hoda Dehmeshki, TBD, York University, 2004-
• Andriy Pavlovych, TBD, York University, 2003-
• Ji-Young Oh, Desktop 3D Conceptual Design Systems, supervisor, York University, 2000-2005.

Master's theses (or equivalent at other institutions)

• Bhavna Agarwal, TBD, York University, 2008-.
• Behrooz Ashtiani, TBD, York University, 2008-.
• Loutfouz Zaman, TBD, York University, 2005-.
• Darius Dagardi, Versioning and Merging Methods for Text and Diagrams, York University, 2005-2009.
• Rob Teather, Comparing 2D and 3D Direct Manipulation Interfaces, York University, 2005-2008.
• Adriano Scoditti, A New Layout Method for Graphics User Interfaces, Master's thesis supervisor, Technical University (Polytecnico) of Torino, Italy, 2006-2007.
• Dustin Phillips, Improving Mouse-Based Text Selection Interfaces, supervisor, York University, 2005-2007.
• Alexey Tumanov, Variability-Aware Latency Amelioration in Distributed Interactive Virtual Environments, co-supervised with R. Allison, York University, 2001-2006
• Andrejs Vorozcovs, The Hedgehog: A Novel Optical Tracking Method for Spatially Immersive Displays, supervisor, York University, 2003-2005.
• Sergey Kulikov, Analysing and Modeling GUI Selection Techniques, supervisor, York University, 2003-2005.
• Zhifeng Wei, Animation of Large Point-Sampled Models, supervisor, York University, 2002-2004.
• Grigori Yourganov, Expansion of the Dynamic Range of a Digital Video Camera, supervisor, York University, 2000-2004.
• Paul Wang, Research and Development of a GIServices Engine for 3D Visualization and Analysis, co-supervised with V. Tao, York University, 2002-2004.
• Szymon Stachniak, A Framework for Editing of Fractal Terrains, supervisor, York University, 2001-2003.
• Andriy Pavlovych, Text Entry on 12-Button Keypads: Techniques and Models, supervisor, York University, 2001-2003.
• Sergey Parilov, Real-Time Rendering of Large Point-Sampled Scenes, supervisor, York University, 2000-2002.
• Graham Smith, Multi-User Constraint Based 3D Scene Construction, supervisor, York University, 1999-2001.
• Tim Salzman, Constraint Based 3D Scene Construction, supervisor, York University, 1998-2000.
• Michael Gösele, Interactive Construction of Three-dimensional Scenes, supervisor, Univ. of Ulm, 1998-1999.
• Robert Lintner, Hidden Line Algorithm for NURBS, Master's thesis, supervisor, Univ. of Linz, 1995-1998.
• Günther Freundenthaler, Object Oriented Generic Computer Graphics Toolkit, supervisor, Univ. of Linz, 1995-1996.
• Josef Bramsteidl, Ray Tracing of trimmed NURBS Surfaces, supervisor, Univ. of Linz, 1995-1996.
• Thomas Nöhammer, Global Illumination with Particle Tracing, supervisor, Univ. of Linz, 1995-1996.
• Christoph Wild, Parallel Radiosity, supervisor, Univ. of Linz, 1994-1995.
• Helmut Lindner, Benchmarks for Graphic Displays, supervisor, Univ. of Linz, 1993-1994.
• Roland Weber, Speedup Methods for Ray Tracing, supervisor, Vienna Univ. of Technology, 1992-1994.
• Werner Gruber, CSG-BSP Conversion, supervisor, Vienna Univ. of Technology, 1992-1994.
• Jacqueline Maas, Ray Tracing of Sweeps, supervisor, Vienna Univ. of Technology, 1992-1994.
• Wilhelm Pitzeier, Ray Tracing of Polyhedra, supervisor, Vienna Univ. of Technology, 1991-1992.
• Robert Groß, Ray Tracing of Bezier- and B-Spline Surfaces, co-supervisor, Vienna Univ. of Technology, 1991-1992.
• Wolfgang Kiendl, Ray Tracing of Bezier- and B-Spline Surfaces, co-supervisor, Vienna Univ. of Technology, 1991.

People Advised Significantly in an Informal Capacity

• Rui Bastos, Table Driven Rendering of Globally Illuminated Scenes, Ph.D. thesis, member of Ph.D. committee, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, started 1997.
• Gernot Schaufler, Rendering Complex Virtual Environments, Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Linz, 1995-1998.
• Heinz Herbeck, Explanation Component for Endgames in Computer Chess, Ph.D. thesis, Vienna Univ. of Technology, 1992-1995.
• Christoph Traxler, Ray Tracing of Fractals with CSG-Automata, Master's thesis, Vienna Univ. of Technology, 1992-1993.
• Roland Lieger, Ray Tracing of Parametric Surfaces, Master's thesis, Vienna Univ. of Technology, 1991-1992.

Teaching Experience

• 3D User Interfaces , CSE 6337, York Univ., 10 students/year, 2009.
• Programming for Digital Media, CSE 1710, York Univ., 35 students/year, 2008.
• Advanced Topics in 3D Computer Graphics, CSE 4431/5331, York Univ., 8 students/year, 2008-2009.
• Operating Systems, CSE 3221, York Univ., 60 students/year, 2006.
• Computer Supported Collaborative Work, CSE 6336, York Univ., 8 students/year, 2007-2008.
• Software Tools, CSE 2031, York Univ., 90 students/year, 2002, 2004, 2007.
• Human-Computer Interaction, CSE 4441/5351, York Univ., 25 students/year, 2002-2004.
• Advanced Human-Computer Interaction, CSE 6329, York Univ., 10 students/year, 2002, 2005.
• User Interfaces, CSE 3461, York Univ., 75 students/year, 2000-2001, 2006
• Advanced Image Synthesis, CSE 6331, York Univ., 6 students/year, 1999-2001.
• Intro. to Computer Graphics, CSE 3431, York Univ., 30 students/year, 1998-2005.
• Research Seminar in Computer Science, Comp 390 (with others), Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 15 students, 1997.
• Selected Topics from Computer Graphics, Course, Univ. of Linz, 15 students/year, 95-96, 1998.
• Praktikum Computer Graphics, Practical (6 or 12 month programming project), Vienna Univ. of Technology & Univ. of Linz, total 14 students, 1991-1999.
• Applied Computer Graphics - Photorealistic Image Generation, Course & Exercises, Univ. of Linz, 25 students/year, 1994-1995.
• Computer Graphics, Seminar, Univ. of Linz, 20 students/year, 1993-1995.
• Technical Computer Science, Seminar, Univ. of Linz, 20 students, 1994.
• Introduction to Computer Graphics, Exercises (with others), Univ. of Linz, 200 students/year, 1992, 1996.
• Algorithms & Datastructures, Exercises (with others), Vienna Univ. of Technology, 400 students, 1992.
• Mathematical Foundations of Computer Graphics, Exercises, Vienna Univ. of Technology, 30 students, 1992.
• Algorithms & Datastructures, Seminar, Vienna Univ. of Technology, 24 students, 1992.
• Introduction to Programming for Users, Exercises (with others), Vienna Univ. of Technology, 530 students, 1991.
• Computer Science, Seminar (with others), Vienna Univ. of Technology, 25 students, 1991.

Research Support

Consulting Activities

• RZL Software (software design, databases, security, user interfaces), City Council of Linz (visualization of GIS data), GASCAD (photo-realistic rendering), GAS Software (rendering), HAN Dataport CAD Systems (hidden line algorithms), HS Software (modelling).