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Markus Hadwiger

Professor, Computer Science

Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division
Email icon markus.hadwiger@kaust.edu.sa

Program Affiliations

Biography

A founding member of KAUST, Hadwiger has published numerous scientific papers and books, including "Real-Time Volume Graphics." He has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science from 2009 to 2014, an Associate Professor of Computer Science from 2014 to 2021, and a Full Professor of Computer Science since 2021.

Research Interests

Professor Markus Hadwiger’s research interests are in scientific visualization and visual computing.

Hadwiger’s investigations span a wide range of topics, including the visualization of extreme-scale data, volume visualization, flow visualization, differential geometry and mathematical physics in visualization, medical visualization, large-scale image and volume processing, multi-resolution and out-of-core techniques, domain-specific languages for visualization, interactive segmentation and feature identification and GPU algorithms and architecture.
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visualization visual computing

Education Profile

  • Ph.D. Computer Science, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 2004

  • Dipl.-Ing., Computer Science, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 2000

Awards and Recognitions

  • Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award (top four papers), IEEE Information Visualization, 2014

  • Best Poster Award, Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis 2014), 2014

  • Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award (top five papers), IEEE Pacific Visualization 2013, 2013

  • Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award (top three papers), IEEE Scientific Visualization 2012, 2012

  • Best Application Paper Award, IEEE Visualization 2007, 2007

Publications

  • W. Jeong, J. Beyer, M. Hadwiger, R. Blue, C. Law, A. Vasquez, C. Reid, J. Lichtman, H. Pfister. "SSECRETT and NeuroTrace: Interactive visualization and analysis tools for large-scale neuroscience datasets". IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2010.

  • W. Jeong, J. Beyer, M. Hadwiger, A. Vasquez, H. Pfister, R. Whitaker. "Scalable and interactive segmentation and visualization of neural processes in EM datasets". IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2009.

  • J. Klein, O. Friman, M. Hadwiger, B. Preim, F. Ritter, A. Vilanova, G. Zachmann, D. Bartz. "Visual computing for medical diagnosis and treatment". Computers & Graphics, Vol.33, No.4; pp. 554-565, 2009.

  • L. Fritz, M. Hadwiger, G. Geier, G. Pittino, E. Gröller. "A visual approach to efficient analysis and quantification of ductile iron and reinforced sprayed concrete". IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2009.

  • S. Lindholm, P. Ljung, M. Hadwiger, A. Ynnerman. "Fused multi-volume DVR using binary space partitioning". Computer Graphics Forum, 2009.

Research Areas

  • Computer Science
  • Visual Computing

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