[Ieee_vis] The 2015 IEEE VGTC Visualization Career Award goes to ...

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The 2015 Visualization Career Award goes to MARKUS GROSS in recognition of
sustained seminal research advances in visualization, displays, computer
graphics, and computer vision and the resulting establishment of multiple
companies and software packages. 

Markus Gross is a full professor of Computer Science at the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, head of the Computer Graphics
Laboratory at ETH, a Vice President of Disney Research and the director of
Disney Research in Zurich.

Gross started his career in visualization. His early work includes the use
of wavelets for surface representations and progressive simplification in
scientific visualization. Later, he pioneered point-based visualization and
graphics. His research contributed significantly to the understanding of
points as primitives for the representation and display of 3-dimensional
geometry as well as of scientific datasets. He also developed the world’s
first hardware architecture for efficient point rendering. In addition,
Gross and his students have created numerous algorithms for the simulation
and visualization of physical phenomena, such as deformations, fracture and
fluids. These methods are utilized in medical as well as in entertainment
applications around the world. A further scientific contribution of Gross
was the design of blue-c, an immersive projection and 3D video capture
system for collaborative visualization and immersive telepresence. This
research was also extended to 3-dimensional video processing and
free-viewpoint video, a technology he pioneered. A less well known, but
very impactful project exploits multimodal information visualization for
training of children with dyslexia, a method used by tens of thousands of
children in Swiss elementary schools. Gross’ current research interests
are focused onto entertainment technology including film production and
postproduction, human faces, digital fabrication, and storytelling.

Gross’ strong commitment to mentorship is reflected by 44 Ph.D. students
he has supervised and graduated. Many of them hold leading positions in
academia or industry. Gross also maintains a strong commitment to
excellence in teaching and continues to develop new undergraduate and
graduate classes in Computer Science at ETH.

Besides his academic achievements Gross’ entrepreneurial spirit led to
five startup companies, co-founded with his students and collaborators over
the years. 

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The IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award was established in
2004. It is given every year to recognize an individual for a seminal
technical achievement in visualization. VGTC members may nominate
individuals for the Visualization Technical Achievement Award by contacting
the awards chair, Larry Rosenblum, at vgtc-vis-awards@ vgtc.org [1]. For
the past awardee, please
visit http://vgtc.org/content/visualization-technical-awards.

 

Best regards,

- Jian (on behalf of VIS 2015 publicity chairs)

----------------------------------------------------------Jian Chen, PhD,
Assistant Prof. CSEE, University of Maryland Baltimore
Countyhttp://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen [2]

  

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[1] http://vgtc.org/
[2] http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen
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