Philipp Slusallek

Current

• Director of Research at Intel Visual Computing Institute
• Scientific Director and Professor at DFKI -- German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
• Scientific Director at DFKI

• Co-Founder at Motama GmbH (www.motama.com)
• Founding Speaker at Competence Center for Computer Science at Saarland University
• Co-Founder at inTrace GmbH (www.intrace.com)
• Collaborator at Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics (MPII)
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. at Saarland University

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Past

• Visiting Professor at NVIDIA
• Student and later Researcher at University of Tübingen
• Visiting Assitant Professor at Stanford University

• Co-Founder at GAMMA GmbH

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Education

• Stanford University
• Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen

• Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

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Connections

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Industry

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Websites

• My Company
• My Website

Philipp Slusallek’s Summary

My research areas are:

-- Realtime Photo-Realistic 3D Graphics
-- Realtime Ray-Tracing
-- Realtime Lighting Simulation
-- High-Performance Parallel Systems for Graphics
-- Massive Model Visualization
-- Volume Visualization
-- Shading Languages & Compilers
-- Graphics Systems and Software
-- Parallel and Distributed Systems
-- Virtual and Augmented Reality
-- Network-Integrated Digital Media

Philipp Slusallek’s Specialties:

Realtime Computer Graphics
Realtime Ray-Tracing
Photorealistic Rendering
Network-Integrated Multimedia

Philipp Slusallek’s Experience

• Director of Research

  Intel Visual Computing Institute

  (Research industry)

  May 2009 — Present (3 months)

• Scientific Director and Professor

  DFKI -- German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

• Scientific Director

  DFKI

  (Research industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year)

• Co-Founder

  Motama GmbH (www.motama.com)

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  October 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)

• Founding Speaker

  Competence Center for Computer Science at Saarland University

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  July 2004 — Present (5 years 1 month)

• Co-Founder

  inTrace GmbH (www.intrace.com)

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  March 2003 — Present (6 years 5 months)

• Collaborator

  Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics (MPII)

  (Research industry)

  1999 — Present (10 years)

• Prof. Dr.-Ing.

  Saarland University

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  October 1999 — Present (9 years 10 months)

• Visiting Professor

  NVIDIA

  (Public Company; NVDA; Computer Hardware industry)

  October 2007 — April 2008 (7 months)

  Working with the research group on the future of realtime ray tracing

• Student and later Researcher

  University of Tübingen

  (Research industry)

  1990 — 2002 (12 years)

• Visiting Assitant Professor

  Stanford University

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  July 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 4 months)

• Co-Founder

  GAMMA GmbH

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  1988 — 1993 (5 years)

Philipp Slusallek’s Education

• Stanford University

  Visiting Assitant Professor , Computer Science, Computer Graphics , 1998 — 1999

• Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

  Dr.-Ing/PhD , Informatics/Computer Science , 1992 — 1999

• Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen

  Diploma/MS , Physics , 1986 — 1992

• Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

  Physics 1983 — 1986

Additional Information

Philipp Slusallek’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website

Philipp Slusallek’s Interests:

Computer Graphics, Ray Tracing, Snowboarding, Volleyball

Philipp Slusallek’s Groups:

Gesellschaft für Informatik, Eurographics, ACM Siggraph, ACM, IEEE Computer Scociety, Deutscher Hochschul Verband, Greenpeace, Freunde der Saarbrücker Informatik (FdSI), Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik

•    ACM SIGGRAPH
•    IEEE Computer Society Members
•    3D Visualisation and Graphics Programming
•    NVIDIA Alumni

Philipp Slusallek’s Honors:

Best PhD of 2005 at Technical Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen,
European IST Innovation Award (with inTrace GmbH, www.intrace.com),
2 Patents on Ray Tracing Hardware Technology

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