Visual Computing

Academic Summary of

Kai Berger

Nationality: German, US Green Card Holder

in Academic Sabbatical

Current position

Senior Computer Vision Developer at Genius Sports

Areas of specialization

Computer Science, Graphics, Vision, Visualization.

Academic Appointments held

2008-2012 Researcher, TU Braunschweig, Germany

2012-2013 Postdoc, University of Oxford, U.K.

2013-2015 Postdoc, INRIA, France

2015-2017 Postdoc, JPL / Caltech, U.S.A.

Education

2004 - 2008 MSc in Computer Science, TU Braunschweig, Advisor: Marcus Magnor

2008 - 2012 PhD in Engineering (Computer Science), TU Braunschweig, Advisor: Marcus Magnor

Grants, honors & awards

2007 DARPA Medal of Finalists, DARPA Urban Challenge

2011 ACM student research grant

Fundings

2008-2012 German Science Foundation DFG MA2555/5-1

2015-2017 Robotics CTA T1C2S2A

Invited Talks

University of Konstanz, Germany,

University of Mines Paristech, France,

University of Strasbourg, France,

University of Littoral, France,

Queen Mary University of London, UK,

HCI, Heidelberg, Germany,

University of Surrey, UK,

University of Hannover, Germany

Teaching and Supervision

2008-2012 Undergraduate Course for Introduction to Computer Graphics

2008-2012 Undergraduate Seminar ”Colloquium Computer Graphics”

2008-2012 Supervision of Bachelor, Master and Diploma Theses

Service to the profession

Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Image

Processing, Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics),

Computers & Graphics,

IEEE Virtual Reality,

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Computer Science,

Computer Vision and Image Understanding,

Multimedia Tools & Applications,

Signal Processing : Image Communication,

Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics,

Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition,

3D Vision,

International Conference on Computational Photography

Program Committee

Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 2009

Session Chair

International Conference on Robotics and Automation