Executive Director DFKI Saarbrücken & Head of the Research Department Agents and Simulated Reality
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Philipp Slusallek is Executive Director DFKI Saarbrücken & Scientific Director of the research area on Agents and Simulated Reality. At Saarland University he has been a professor for Computer Graphics since 1999, a principle investigator at the German Excellence‐Cluster on “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” since 2007, and was Director for Research at the Intel Visual Computing Institute 2009‐2017. Before coming to Saarland University, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University. He is associate editor of Computer Graphics Forum, a fellow of Eurographics, a member of acatech (German National Academy of Science and Engineering), and a member of the European High‐Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence. In addition, Prof. Slusallek co‐founded the European initiative CLAIRE (Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe) in 2018.
He originally studied physics in Frankfurt and Tuebingen (Diploma/M.Sc.) and got his PhD in Computer Science from Erlangen University. His research covers a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence, simulated/digital reality, real‐time realistic graphics, highperformance computing, motion synthesis, novel programming models for CPU/GPU/FPGA, computational science, and others.
2020 – today | Executive Director DFKI Saarbrücken | ||
2008 – today | Scientific Director and Site Manager, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany | ||
2009 – today | Director of Research | ||
2007 – today | Principal Investigator, Co-Editor, and Member of the Scientific Board | ||
2007 – 2008 | Visiting Professor | ||
2000 – today | Full Professor (C4/W3) Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany | ||
1999 – 2000 | Associate Professor (C3) | ||
1998 – 1999 | Visiting Assistant Professor | ||
1995 - 1998 | PostDoc at the Computer Graphics Lab, Prof. Hans-Peter Seidel | ||
1992 - 1995 | Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Computer Science | ||
1990 - 1992 | Researcher |
1983 - 1990 | M.Sc. (Diplom) in Physics at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany |
2018 | Member of acatech: German Academy of Science and Engineering | ||
2015 | Land of Ideas Award: Display as a Service | ||
2013 | Fellow of the Eurographics Association | ||
2013 | CeBIT Innovation Award: For Display as a Service | ||
2010 | Land of Ideas Award: DFKI Visualization Center | ||
2008 | Final winner of Open Source Competition: ACM Multimedia 2008 | ||
2006 | European IST Innovation Award: European Commission | ||
1995 | Best Ph.D. within the Technical Faculty, University of Erlangen |
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