People
Faculty
Bernd Bickel
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 111
- bernd.bickel@ist.ac.at
- +43 (0)2243 9000-1124
- berndbickel.com/
Computational Fabrication
Vladimir Kolmogorov
- Central Building, 3rd floor, 69
- vnk@ist.ac.at
- +43 (0)2243 9000-4801
- pub.ist.ac.at/~vnk/
Computer Vision, Discrete Optimization
Christoph Lampert
- Central Building, 3rd floor, 67
- chl@ist.ac.at
- +43 (0)2243 9000-3101
- cvml.ist.ac.at/
Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Chris Wojtan
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 110
- wojtan@ist.ac.at
- +43 (0)2243 9000-4401
- pub.ist.ac.at/group_wo...
Physics Simulation, Geometry Processing
Administrative Assistants
Astrid Bonventre-Darthe
- Central Building, 3rd floor
- astrid.bonventre-darthe..
- +43 (0)2243 9000-1015
Christine François-Rennhofer
- Lab Building West, 3nd floor, 206
- christine.francois-renn..
- +43 660 8831717
Sandra Landauer
- Lab Building West, 3rd floor, 119
- sandra.landauer@ist.ac.at
- +43 2243 9000 1209
Senior Researchers
Mickaël Ly
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 106
- mickael.ly@ist.ac.at
- astcort.github.io/
Michal Piovarči
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 109
- michael.piovarci@ist.ac..
- misop.github.io/
PhD Students
Manas Bhargava
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 106
- manas.bhargava@ist.ac.at
Physics Based Simulation
Yi-Lu Chen
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 107
- yi-lu.chen@ist.ac.at
Physics-based simulation
Christian Hafner
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 107
- christian.hafner@ist.ac..
- chrishafner.github.io/
Computational Fabrication, Physics-based Simulation
Sadashige Ishida
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 106;114
- sadashige.ishida@ist.ac..
- sadashigeishida.bitbuc...
Aleksei Kalinov
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 106
- aleksei.kalinov@ist.ac.at
- mousebaiker.github.io/
Alexandra Peste
- Central Building, 3rd floor, 68
- alexandra.peste@ist.ac.at
- at.linkedin.com/in/ale...
machine learning
Irina-Malina Strugaru
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 107; 3rd floor, 204
- irina-malina.strugaru@i..
Peter Synak
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 106
- peter.synak@ist.ac.at
Interns
Evgeny Zuenko
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 109
- evgeny.zuenko@ist.ac.at
Ihor Zvieriev
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 107
- naomipappe.zvieriev@gma..
Alumni
Ryoichi Ando
- Central Building, 3rd floor, 53
- and@verygood.aid.design..
Fluid Simulation
Thomas Auzinger
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 109
- thomas.auzinger@ist.ac.at
- auzinger.name/
I obtained my M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Vienna and my PhD. in Computer Graphics from the TU Wien under the supervision of Michael Wimmer. During my doctoral studies, I worked on anti-aliasing and medical visualization. My current research interest is computational fabriction in general and appearance modeling in special.
Gabor Krisztian Birkas
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 106
- krisztiangabor.birkas@i..
Patrick Blies
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 107
- patrick.blies@ist.ac.at
Morten Bojsen-Hansen
Morten Bojsen-Hansen is a fifth year PhD student advised by Chris Wojtan. He studied Computer Science at Aarhus University. His primary research interest is physics-based animation.
Nikola Bozhinov
- Central Building, 3rd floor, 51
- n.bozhinov@gmail.com
ISTernship, Physics-based Simulations
Raphaël Charrondière
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 109
- raphael.charrondiere@is..
- rcharron.github.io/
Donald Degraen
I’m a PhD student under Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger in the Ubiquitous Media Technology Lab at the Saarland University (UMTL) and I’m part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie network (DISTRO). My PhD research investigates the design of haptic feedback for virtual reality.
Oskar Elek
Irene Filoscia
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 109
- irene.filoscia@ist.ac.at
Ewa Gajda-Zagórska
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 106
- ewa.gajda-zagorska@ist...
I got my MSc in Computer Science in 2009 from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. Then I obtained a PhD in 2015 at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow. Currently I am a postdoc researcher in Chris Wojtan’s group. My research interests include physics-based simulations, multiobjective optimization and evolutionary algorithms.
Ruslan Guseinov
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 107
- ruslan.guseinov@ist.ac.at
- ruslanguseinov.com/
Computational Fabrication
David Hahn
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 108
- david.hahn@ist.ac.at
I’m a PhD student in Chris Wojtan’s group mostly working on simulations of brittle fracture. I’ve previously studied simulation engineering at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences.
Paul Henderson
- Central Building, 3rd floor,
- paul.henderson@ist.ac.at
- www.pmh47.net/
Emmanuel Iarussi
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 106
- emmanuel.iarussi@ist.ac..
I’ve recently got my Ph.D. at GRAPHDECO team, Inria Sophia Antipolis, France. In 2012 I’ve graduated as a Systems Engineer from UNICEN University, Tandil, Argentina. I’m a former member of ANR DRAO Project, focused on facilitating and accelerating drawing for amateurs, expert designers and illustrators. As a researcher, I’m mostly interested in imaging, fabrication and graphics as well as human-computer interaction techniques for image creation and manipulation.
Hikaru Ibayashi
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 107
- ibayashi@is.s.u-tokyo.a..
I got my B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Tokyo, and I’m now a master student in computer graphics under the supervision of Takeo Igarashi (expecting M.Sc. in Computer Science in March, 2017). I was mainly working on virtual reality and fluid simulation so far. My current research interests are physics-based simulation, computer vision and applied math.
Stefan Jeschke
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor
- sjeschke@ist.ac.at
- +43 (0)2243 9000-7484
- www.stefan-jeschke.com/
I got my M.Sc. in 2001 and a Ph.D. in 2005, both in computer science from the University of Rostock, Germany. Afterwards, I spent several years as a post doc researcher in projects at Vienna University of Technology, Arizona State University and IST Austria. My research interest includes modeling and display of vectorized image representations, applications and solvers for PDEs, as well as modeling and rendering complex natural phenomena, preferably in real time.
Krystof Kolar
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 106
- krystof.kolar@ist.ac.at
Alexander Kolesnikov
- Central Building, 3rd floor, 52
- akolesnikov@ist.ac.at
- pub.ist.ac.at/~akolesn...
computer vision, machine learning
Nikola Konstantinov
- Central Building, 3rd floor, 68
- nikola.konstantinov@ist..
- nkonstan.pages.ist.ac.at/
machine learning
Mathias Lepoutre
- Central Building, 3rd floor, 51
- mathias.lepoutre@polyte..
Geometry Processing, Physics-based Simulations
Zhenyuan(Desmond) Liu
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 107
- zhenyuan.liu@ist.ac.at
- desmondlzy.me/
Desmond was a research intern at IST Austria, advised by Prof. Bernd Bickel. He graduated from CUHK with a BSc. in Computer Science (first class honors) in July 2021. He will join GCM at EPFL in the fall of 2022, advised by Prof. Dr. Mark Pauly.
Luigi Malomo
- Central Building, 3rd floor, 51
- malomo.luigi@gmail.com
Computational Design
Eder Miguel
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 108
- emiguel@ist.ac.at
- eder-miguel.github.io/
I obtained my PhD. in November 2014 at Rey Juan Carlos University under the supervision of Miguel A. Otaduy. I worked on modeling and estimation of hyperelasticity and deformation models. Currently, I focus on physically-based simulation (including data-driven approaches) and its application to computational design and digital fabrication.
Kazutaka Nakashima
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 107
- kazutaka.nakashima@n-ta..
- n-taka.info/introduction/
I am a 2nd year master course student in Graduate School of information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Department of Computer Science. My supervisor is Takeo Igarashi, and in IST, I belong to Bernd Bickel group. My research interest is about digital fabrication.
Hao Peng
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor
- penghao@mail.sdu.edu.cn
- penghao94.github.io/
Hao was a research intern at IST Austria, advised by Prof. Bernd Bickel.
Selver Pepić
- Central Building, 3rd floor, 53
- pepicselver@gmail.com
ISTernship, Physics-based Simulation
Jesus Perez Rodriguez
Mary Phuong
- Central Building, 3rd floor, 68
- bphuong@ist.ac.at
- mary-phuong.github.io/
machine learning
Radhika Prasad
Klint Qinami
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 108
- kq2129@columbia.edu
Charles Rajan
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 107
- charles.rajan@ist.ac.at
Amélie Royer
- Central Building, 3rd floor
- aroyer@ist.ac.at
- pub.ist.ac.at/~aroyer/
computer vision, machine learning
Camille Schreck
I am now a researcher in the MFX Team at Inria Nancy in France (https://mfx.loria.fr/). I was a postdoc researcher at IST Austria in Chris Wojta Group between 2016 and 2020. I am interested in physics-based simulation and modeling natural phenoma as well as geometric modeling. I obtained my PhD in 2016 at the University of Grenoble-Alpes, supervised by Stefanie Hahmann and Damien Rohmer of the Imagine Team. I got an Engenieering Degree in 2013 from the school ENSIMAG (Grenoble INP) of Grenoble, France.
Viktoriia Sharmanska
- University of Sussex, UK
- sharmanska.v@gmail.com
- ilovevisiondata.wixsit...
computer vision, machine learning
Kumar Shivam
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 106
- kumar.shivam@ist.ac.at
Tomas Skrivan
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 114
- tomas.skrivan@ist.ac.at
- lecopivo.github.io/
Georg Sperl
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 114
- georg.sperl@ist.ac.at
- sperl.me/
Physics-Based Simulation
Huidong Yang
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 114
- huidong.yang@ist.ac.at
Ran Zhang
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 107
- ran.zhang@ist.ac.at
- ran-zhang.com/
Computational Design
Haisen Zhao
- Lab Building West, 2nd floor, 108
- haisen.zhao@ist.ac.at
- haisenzhao.github.io/
Haisen was a postdoc at IST Austria, advised by Prof. Bernd Bickel.