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Dr. Marco Agus
Associate Professor
Dr. Marco Agus
Associate Professor
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Mechanical Engineering
MSc in Electronics Engineering
Entity
College of Science and Engineering
Divison
Information & Computing Technology
Biography
Marco Agus is an Associate Professor in the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He obtained an MSc and PhD from the University of Cagliari, Italy. He has also worked as a Research Engineer at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, and as a Research Scientist at the Center of Research, Development, and Advanced Studies (CRS4), in Cagliari, Italy.
Marco Agus's research interests span different domains in visual computing, from haptics and visual rendering for medical applications to real-time exploration of massive models, to machine learning methods for electron microscopy biology data and indoor environments. He taught courses at several important visual computing venues, including IEEE CVPR, ACM SIGGRAPH, and Eurographics, and he regularly acts as a committee member, reviewer, chair, and associate editor for top journals and conferences in the visual computing domain.
PhD in Mechanical Engineering
University of Cagliari, Italy
2004
MSc in Electronics Engineering
University of Cagliari, Italy
1999
- Applied Visual Computing
- Scientific and Date Visualization and Analytics
- Interactive Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Associate Professor
College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2024 - Present
Assistant Professor
College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2020 - 2024
Expert Researcher
Visual Computing, CRS4, Italy
2019 - 2020
Research Engineer
Visual Computing Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
2016 - 2019
Researcher
Visual Computing, CRS4, Italy
2007 - 2016
Complete Publication Listing(s): Google Scholar
- Honorable Mention Award at ACM Web3D 2023 conference for the full paper “PanoVerse: automatic generation of stereoscopic environments from single indoor panoramic images for Metaverse applications”
- Best Paper Award at EG VCBM 2022 conference for the full paper “HistoContours: a Framework for Visual Annotation of Histopathology Whole Slide Images”
- Best Paper Award at EG GCH 2016 conference for the full paper “Interactive 3D exploration of a virtual sculpture collection: an analysis of user behavior in museum setting”
- Best Paper Award at Digital Heritage 2015 conference for the full paper “Digital Monte Prama: 3D Cultural Heritage Presentations in Museums and Anywhere”