Peter Wonka

Short description: Austrian computer scientist

Peter Wonka

Nationality| Austrian
Alma mater| TU Vienna
Awards| National Science Foundation Career Award (2006)
Scientific career
Fields| Computer Graphics, Scientific visualization, Image Processing
Institutions| King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Arizona State University
Thesis| Occlusion Culling for Real-Time Rendering of Urban Environments (2001)
Doctoral advisor| Michael Gervautz

Peter Wonka is an Austrian computer scientist and a professor and associate director[1] at the Visual Computing Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia. He was previously employed at the Arizona State University as an associate professor and is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Career Award.[2]

His main contributions lie in the areas of computer graphics, scientific visualization and image processing.[3]

## Biography

Peter Wonka received a master's degree in computer science from Vienna University of Technology in 1997.[4] He continued his graduate studies there, receiving his PhD degree for the thesis "Occlusion Culling for Real-Time Rendering of Urban Environments"[5] in 2001[4] as well as a master's degree in urban planning in 2002.[4]

After researching at UJF Grenoble and Georgia Institute of Technology, Peter Wonka joined the faculty of Arizona State University in 2004 as an assistant professor and then as an associate professor. In 2011, he relocated to King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, where he is currently employed as a professor.[4]

## References

1. ↑ "Dr. Peter Wonka's Website at the VCC KAUST" (in en-US). https://vcc.kaust.edu.sa/Pages/Wonka.aspx.
2. ↑ "Mitropoulos, Wonka earn NSF Career Awards". Arizona State University. March 27, 2007. https://asunews.asu.edu/stories/200703/20070328_NSFawards.htm. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
3. ↑ "Peter Wonka". Google Scholar. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0EKXSXgAAAAJ&hl=en. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Wonka, Peter. "Peter Wonka's Personal Webpage". http://peterwonka.net.
5. ↑ "Occlusion Culling for Real-Time Rendering of Urban Environments, Faculty of Informatics, TU Vienna". https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2001/Wonka-thesis/.

## External links

* Peter Wonka's webpage

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