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Dr. Jens Schneider
Associate Professor
Dr. Jens Schneider
Associate Professor
Educational Qualifications
Dr. rer. nat. in Computer Science
Dipl. Inform. (M.Sc. Computer Science)
Entity
College of Science and Engineering
Divison
Information & Computing Technology
Biography
Dr. Jens Schneider is an assistant professor in the Division of Information and Computing Technology, College of Science and Engineering, HBKU.
He received his diploma in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen, Germany, in 2004 and his doctorate in Computer Science from Technical University Munich, Germany, in 2009.
His main research interests include interactive and GPU-based Visualization, GPU-friendly Data Compression, Large-scale Visualization, and Level of Detail Algorithms.
Teams led by Dr. Schneider have won the IEEE Visualization contest two consecutive years, 2005 and 2006.
Dr. rer. nat. in Computer Science
Technical University Munich, Germany
2009
Dipl. Inform. (M.Sc. Computer Science)
RWTH Aachen, Germany
2004
- Interactive GPU-based Visualization
- GPU-friendly Data Compression
- Large-Scale Visualization
- Level of Detail Algorithms
- Computer Graphics
Assistant Professor, CSE
Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Dec 2018 - Present
Staff Scientist, VCC
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Jun 2016 - Nov 2018
Research Scientist, VCC
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Sep 2011 - May 2016
Postdoctoral Fellow, GMSV
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Dec 2009 - Aug 2011
Doctoral Candidate and Research Assistant
Technical University Munich
Jun 2004 - Oct 2011
Abstracted Visualization of Halo Topologies in Dark Matter Simulations; Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization,
Springer LNCS,
Integration of Absolute Orientation Measurements in the KinectFusion Reconstruction Pipeline; VOCVALC 2018, to appear.
Joint Graph Layouts for Visualizing Collections of Segmented Meshes; IEEE TVCG 24(9):2546--2558, 2017 (https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2017.2751473)
A Versatile and Efficient GPU Data Structure for Spatial Indexing; IEEE TVCG / Vis Week 23(1):911-920, 2017 (https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2016.2599043)
Interactive Visual Exploration of a Trillion Particles; IEEE LDAV, 2016 (https://doi.org/10.1109/LDAV.2016.7874310)
System and Method for Crowd Counting and Tracking. US Patent 9,361,524 B2 (issued 7.Jun.2016)
System and Method for Three-dimensional Image Reconstruction using an Absolute Orientation Sensor. US Provisional Patent
Real-time Lossless Compression of Depth Streams, US Provisional Patent
Interactive Rendering of Giga-particle Fluid Simulations; EG/ACM SIGGRAPH High Performance Graphics, 105-116
A Collaborative Digital Pathology System for Multi-Touch Mobile and Desktop Computing Platforms; Computer Graphics Forum 32(6):227-24
- 2005: IEEE Visualization Contest, First Place, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- 2006: IEEE Visualization Contest, First Place, Baltimore, MD, USA
- 2016: Best Venture Pitch Award at View / CVPR for Startup "hachid"
- 2016: #21 of Forbes Middle East 50 Most Promising Startups ("hachid")