CV Wonka
CV Wonka
CV Wonka
email : [email protected]
webpage: http://peterwonka.net/
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0627-9746
Education
Vienna University of Technology Vienna, Austria
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Ph.D in Computer Science (Dr. techn.) Oct 1997 – Jun 2001
Appointments
• Professor, KAUST, KSA Jul 2014 – current
• Interims Director, Visual Computing Center (VCC) Nov 2021 – current
• Associate Director, Visual Computing Center (VCC, previously GMSV) Jan 2013 – Nov 2021
• Computer Science Program Chair, KAUST Sep 2018 – Dec 2021
• Acting Director of the GMSV center, KAUST Nov 2013 – Jan 2014
• Associate Professor, KAUST, KSA Aug 2011 – Jul 2014
• Associate Professor, Arizona State University, USA Aug 2010 – Aug 2016
• Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, USA Aug 2004 – May 2010
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Aug 2002 – Aug 2004
• Research Assistant, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Oct 1997 – Aug 2002
• Research Assistant, UJF Grenoble (iMAGIS - GRAVIR/IMAG, INRIA), France Jun 2000 – Jan 2001
• Lecturer, Fachhochschule Hagenberg, Austria Mar 2000 – Jun 2000
• Lecturer, Fachhochschule Hagenberg, Austria Mar 1999 – Jun 1999
• Research Assistant, University of Rennes I, France Sep 1998 – Jan 1999
Invited Presentations
1. UCL Seminar (online), “Recent Research Efforts for Building 3D GANs”, September 2022
2. 3DGV Seminar (online), “Modeling of Urban Environments”, October 2021
3. ByteDance Seminar (online), “Recent Topics in Generative Modeling”, April 2021
4. Adobe Seminar (online), “10 Questions about Generative Modeling”, April 2021
5. National Tsing Hua University Taiwan, “Selected Research Challenges to Improve Generative Adversarial Networks”,
May 2019
6. National Taiwan University, “Selected Research Challenges to Improve Generative Adversarial Networks”, May 2019
7. National Sun Yat-sen University Taiwan, “Selected Research Challenges to Improve Generative Adversarial
Networks”, May 2019
8. Allegorithmic, “Computing Facade Layouts”, November 2018
9. Oxford, “Computational Urban Design”, July 2018
10. TU Darmstadt, “Integer Programming for Layout Problems”, June 2017
11. MPI Saarbrücken, “Integer Programming for Layout Problems”, June 2017
12. TU Munich, “Integer Programming for Layout Problems”, June 2017
13. UCL London, “Integer Programming for Layout Computations”, September 2016
14. TU Vienna, “Integer Programming for Layout Computations”, June 2016
15. IST Austria, “Exploring Quadrangulations”, July 2015
16. Ecole Polytechnique Paris, “Mesh Connectivity Editing for Modeling Applications”, June 2015
17. TU Vienna, “Computational Design of Urban Layouts”, November 2014
18. Ewha Womens University, “Mesh Connectivity Editing for Modeling Applications”, October 2014
19. UBC Vancouver, “Design Computation for Urban Layouts”, August 2014
20. IST Austria, “Design Computation for Urban Layouts”, July 2014
21. University of Hong Kong, “Modeling of Street Layouts, Mass Models, and Facades”, November 2013
22. UCL London, “Modeling of Street Layouts, Mass Models, and Facades”, June 2013
23. Tsinghua University, “Connectivity Editing for Polygonal Meshes”, November 2012
24. Microsoft Research Asia, “Recent Work in Urban and Architectural Modeling”, November 2012
25. SIAT. “Architectural Modeling and Reconstruction”, November 2012
26. TU Graz, “Recent Work in Urban and Architectural Modeling”, June 2012
27. TU Vienna, “Interactive Modeling with Procedural Extrusions”, June 2012
28. IST Austria, “Connectivity Editing of Irregular Vertices”, August 2011
29. Purdue, “Procedural Modeling of Patterns on Surfaces”, October 2010
30. KAUST, “Modeling and Visualization of Urban Environments”, September 2010
31. University of Utah, “Modeling and Visualization of Urban Environments”, June 2010
32. Navteq, Chicago “Modeling and Visualization of Urban Environments”, May 2010
33. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, ”Remote Sensing Research at PRISM”, December 2008
34. University of Girona, “Procedural Modeling of Urban Environments”, July 2008
35. VRVIS Vienna, “Modeling of Urban Environments”, June 2008
36. Technical University of Vienna, “Computer Graphics Education for Graduate Students”, June 2008
37. Google Research, California, “Urban Reconstruction and Modeling for Building Virtual Worlds”, March 2008
38. University of Utah, “Modeling and Visualization of Urban Environments”, November 2007
39. Oregon State University, February 2007
40. Valve, Seattle, October 2006
41. Universitaet Stuttgart, September 2006
42. Intel Research, Santa Clara, February 2006
43. Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH), July 2005
44. Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH), June 2004
45. Simon Frasier University, April 2004
46. Arizona State University, April 2004
47. Stony Brook University, March, 2004
48. University College London, England, June 2002
49. Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria, May 2001
50. Karlava University of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, April 2001
51. iMAGIS seminar, Grenoble, France, March 2000
52. University of Rennes I, Rennes, France, January 1999
Teaching
• Deep Learning for Visual Computing (CS 399), KAUST, Fall 2019, Fall 2020
• Computer Graphics (CS 248), KAUST, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017
• Geometry Processing (CS 272), KAUST, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018
• Graphics for Games (CPI411), Arizona State University, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011
• Introduction to Computer Graphics (CSE 470), Arizona State University, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2009, Fall
2010
• Real-time Rendering (CSE 591), Arizona State University, Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2009
• Introduction to ASU (ASU 101), Arizona State University, Fall 2008
• Advanced Computer Graphics (CSE 570), Arizona State University, Spring 2006, Spring 2008
• Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science (CSE355), Arizona State University, Spring 2005
• Multi-media Programming (MMP6), Fachhochschule Hagenberg, Spring 1999, Spring 2000
Completed Projects
Note: The percentages indicate the allocated recognition for each project as tracked by ASU.
• Procedural Urban Modeling using Neural Networks
Peter Wonka (PI), Bernard Ghanem
KAUST Competitive Research Grant, 2019 – 2021, 2yrs, 399K, KAUST
• Analyzing Large Scale 3D Shape Collections
Peter Wonka (PI), Maks Ovjanikov, Peter Richtarik
KAUST Competitive Research Grant, 2018 – 2021, 3yrs, 975K, KAUST
• CCF: Visual Computer Center
Wolfgang Heidrich (PI), Ghanem, Hadwiger, Wonka, Sundaramoorthi
KAUST Research Grants, 2015 – 2020. 5 yrs. 10M, KAUST
• Urban Image Analysis for Urban Modeling
Peter Wonka (PI), Ganesh Sundaramoorthi
KAUST Competitive Research Grant, 2015 – 2018. 3 yrs. 677K, KAUST
• 3D Modeling using Multi-Sided Patches
Peter Wonka (PI), Alyn Rockwood, Tamas Varadi
Boeing Company. 2013 – 2015. 3yrs. 550K, KAUST
• CAREER: Constrained Procedural Urban Modeling.
Peter Wonka (PI, 100%),
NSF. 2007 – 2014. 5 yrs (extended). 400K, ASU
• Multi-source Visual Analytics
Jieping Ye, Peter Wonka (Co-PI 25%), Anshuman Razdan
NSF. 2009 – 2014, 3yrs. 500K, ASU
• HCC: Small: Collaborative Research: Graph and Pattern Design on Surfaces
Eugene Zhang, OSU and Peter Wonka, ASU
NSF. 2008 – 2013. 3 yrs. 250K, ASU
• CPA-G&V: Tensor Factory
Peter Wonka (PI, 50%), Jieping Ye (Co-PI)
NSF. 2008 – 2011. 3 yrs. 299K
• Aerospace and Defense Initiative
Rick Shangraw et al. (Peter Wonka Co-PI 7%)
SFAZ. 2010 – 2011, 1yr, 1M, ASU
• Geospecific Displacement Maps for Real Time, Stereoscopic Training Simulation
Anshuman Razdan, Peter Wonka (Co-PI 50%), John Femiani
SBIR Phase 1. 2010 – 2011, 6 months. 50K, ASU + STRC
• Pilot: SOUZOU – Creativity through Procedural Modeling
Yoshihiro Kobayashi (PI), Peter Wonka (Co-PI, 50%)
NSF. 2008 – 2011. 2+1 yrs. 199K
• Gameworld.
Michael Wimmer(PI), Peter Wonka(Co-PI, 100K Euro subcontract), Harald Riegler (Co-PI)
FIT-IT. 2007 – 2010. 3 yrs. 500K Euro
• Integrated Spectral Dimensionality Reduction.
Jieping Ye (PI), Peter Wonka (Co-PI, 25%), Anshuman Razdan (Co-PI)
NGA. 2008 – 2010. 2 yrs. 300K
• Visual Geo-Analytics
Peter Wonka (PI, 50%), Anshuman Razdan (Co-PI), Elisabeth Wentz (Co-PI)
NSF. 2006 – 2010. 3 yrs. 623K
• Innovative 2D/3D Building, Asset, and Resource Tracking Visualization Tool.
Kutta Consultion (PI), A. Razdan (Co-PI), Peter Wonka (Co-PI, 20%)
SBIR. 2007 – 2010. 2.5 yrs. Phase I 100K + Phase II 450K.
• Procedural Details
Peter Wonka (PI, 80%), Jieping Ye (Co-PI)
NVIDIA. 2008. 6 months. 2008. 25K
• Interactive Procedural Urban Reconstruction from Aerial Images
Peter Wonka (PI 100%).
Google. 2008. 40K
• Geometry-based Feature Extraction and Analysis for Geospatial Datasets
Anshuman Razdan (PI), Peter Wonka (Co-PI, 50%)
NGA. 2005 – 2008. 3 yrs. 450K
• Image-based Simplification for 3D GIS.
Peter Wonka (PI)
2002 – 2004, Austrian Science Fund (FWF), 70K Euro
Advisors
• Dieter Schmalstieg (TU Graz), PhD advisor
• Michael Gervautz (Qualcomm), PhD advisor
• William Ribarsky (UNC-C), postdoctoral advisor
Research Scientists
• Michael Birsak, KAUST, 2022 – ,
• Chi-Han Peng, KAUST, 2017 – 2019, next employment: assistant professor at Shanghai Tech
• Liangliang Nan, KAUST, 2013 – 2018, next employment: assistant professor at TU Delft
• Dongming Yang, KAUST, 2011 – 2014, next employment: associate professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Visitors
• Yiqun Wang, KAUST, 09.2019 – 08.2020
• Fatma Kabeer, KAUST, Spring 2018
• Mengke Yuan, KAUST, 01.12.2017 – 23.05.2018
• Songlin Chen, KAUST, 15.08.2017 – 25.01.2018
• Yuhai Lan, KAUST 10.02.2017 – 15.07.2017
• Weijie Tang, KAUST 01.07.2017 – 25.09.2017
• Wenming Wu, KAUST 2016 – 2017 (multiple visits)
• Haiyong Jiang, KAUST, 2014 – 2017 (multiple visits)
• Tianyu Ye, KAUST, 16.11.2015 – 13.05.2016
• Jiaqi Liu, KAUST, 17.12.2014 – 13.06.2015
• Hualiang Xie, KAUST, 17.12.2014 – 13.06.2015
• Minglei Li, KAUST, 20.08.2014 – 12.02.2015
• Ngoc Minh Dang, 15.11.2014 – 23.01.2015
• Paul Guerrero, KAUST, 2012 – 2015 (multiple visits)
• Fuzhang Wu, KAUST, 2012 – 2013 (multiple visits)
• Tom Kelly, KAUST, 5.11.2011 – 19.12.2011
• Gurkan Koldas, ASU, 2010
• Tom Kelly, ASU, 2009
• Alejandro Sanchez Guinea, ASU, 2009 – 2010
• Fu Yinghua, ASU, 2007
Remote Interns
• Hiroyasu Akada, KAUST, 09.2020 - 05.2021
• Zaid Bhat, KAUST, 10.2020 - 12.2020
• Muhammad Usman, KAUST, 10.2020
• Oscar Guarnizo, KAUST, 03.2021 - 08.2021
• Batyrbek Mukhatbekov, KAUST, 05.2021 - 01.2022
Other Publications
1. Procedural Methods for Urban Modeling
Benjamin Watson, Peter Wonka
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 28(3): 16-17. 2008. (Introduction to a special issue of CG & A)
2. Transformations in Design
Pascal Mueller, Peter Wonka, Simon Haegler, Luc Van Gool.
Siggraph Animation Festival. Animated Movie. 2005.
3. Modellierung und Rendering mit nichtlinearen CSG-pL-systemen
Peter Wonka. (Diploma Thesis)
Institute of Computer Graphics, Vienna University of Technology. 1997.
4. Occlusion Culling for Real-Time Rendering of Urban Environments
Peter Wonka. (PhD Thesis)
Institute of Computer Graphics, Vienna University of Technology. 2001.
5. Digitale Bausteine zur Fassadenmodellierung
Peter Wonka (Diploma Thesis).
Institute of Local Planning, Vienna University of Technology. 2002.