Dieter W. Fellner

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Dieter W. Fellner

Dieter W. Fellner (born December 22, 1958 in Wolfsberg , Austria ) is an Austrian computer scientist and director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD in Darmstadt .

Life

Fellner studied technical mathematics at the Graz University of Technology . After graduating in 1981, he worked as an engineer in a development group for the “intelligent screen text decoder MUPID ”. In 1984 he received his doctorate in practical computer science and in 1988 he completed his habilitation in the field of applied information processing at the Graz University of Technology.

After completing his habilitation in the field of applied information processing in 1989, he became an associate professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland , Canada. In 1992 he accepted a professorship for computer science at the University of Bonn and in 1998 he was appointed professor and founding director of the Institute for Computer Graphics at the Technical University of Braunschweig . Since 2005 he has been a professor at his home university in Graz, where in 2006 he set up the Institute for Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization (CGV), whose research focuses on classical computer graphics and digital libraries.

He is the author and (co-) editor of many German and English books and conference proceedings on topics in his field. He is an editorial member of leading journals in the fields of computer graphics and digital libraries and in the program committees of many international conferences and workshops.

Since October 2006 he has headed the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD) and is Professor of Interactive Graphics Systems at the Computer Science Department at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

Research projects

Fellner does research on topics such as user interface design , formal languages, software engineering , telematics services and computer graphics . His last research focus was on the graphic aspects of digital libraries. Fellner dealt with the merging of digital measurement results, views, sections and other research results into models with the help of 3D techniques as well as with electronic publishing as a whole as part of a DFG priority program he initiated. Between 1997 and 2005, around 50 researchers in 21 research groups were funded and funded by the German Research Foundation each year.

As director of the Fraunhofer IGD, Fellner is not only interested in further expanding his institute's competencies, but also in three main areas:

  1. Acquisition, preservation and use of semantics in the entire process chain of modeling
  2. Overlap area between computer graphics and computer vision as a technical substructure for the current application area of ​​ambient intelligence
  3. Transfer of "library" issues to the information and communication area in technology and construction

Activities in scientific societies, committees and associations

In addition to his professorship at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Fellner holds leading positions in supervisory bodies, directorates and advisory boards of industry and research institutions in Germany and abroad. He is involved in various international cooperation programs for research, university education and training.

From 1994 to 2003 Fellner was chairman of the Computer Graphics Committee of the Gesellschaft für Informatik and was an elected member of the Eurographics Executive Committee from 1997 to 2011 . In 2003 he became a member of the board of trustees of Fraunhofer IGD and founding spokesman for the graphic data processing department of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). Since 2004, Professor Fellner has been a technical reviewer for the European Research Foundation (ESF) in the Committee for Physics and Engineering (PISC). He is also a member of the founding committee of the Leibnitz Information Center of the German Central Library for Economic Sciences (ZBW) and the revision committee of the German Excellence Initiative, which aims to promote top-level research and improve the quality of Germany as a university and science location. In 1997 and 2003 he was chairman of the scientific program of the Eurographics Conference. He was the main program chairman of the Generalized Documents & Digital Libraries Symposium from 1998 to 2004.

From 2001 to 2005 Fellner was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Lower Saxony Research Ministry. Until 2002 he was chairman of the executive committee of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) for the field of digital libraries. He also works in an advisory capacity for the German Science Council, the German Research Foundation , the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research ( BMBF ) and the European Commission (DG INFSO), as a member of ISTAG (ICT Advisory Group of the European Commission). From 2007 to 2011 he was an elected member of the DFG Committee for Scientific Libraries and Information Systems (AWBI). In 2009 Professor Fellner was accepted into the Academia Europaea .

Since January 1, 2016, Fellner has been the chairman of the IUK-Technologie, an association of 20 Fraunhofer institutes dedicated to research and development in the field of information and communication technology.

Patents

In 2001 Fellner was granted a patent for the method he developed together with Z. Liu for predicting the spread of radio waves.

Awards

In 2018 Fellner received the Eurographics Gold Medal for his services to the advancement of computer graphics, which also recognizes his longstanding leadership role within the Eurographics Association . In September 2019 Fellner received an honorary doctorate from the University of Rostock .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fraunhofer IGD: Eurographics Gold Medal for Prof. Fellner. In: Fraunhofer IGD. Fraunhofer IGD, May 30, 2018, accessed June 16, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Honorary doctorate Prof. Dieter W. Fellner | Fraunhofer IGD. Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Faculty of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Rostock: Awards & Honors 2019. Accessed on October 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Fellner, Dieter W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfsberg , Austria