CV Tomasz Bednarz

Tomasz is a Director and Head of Visualisation at the Expanded Perception & Interaction Centre (EPICentre), A/Professor at the UNSW Art & Design and UNSW Computer Science and Engineering. He is also Research Team Leader at CSIRO’s Data61 (leading Visual/Hybrid Analytics Team, in Software & Computational Systems research program). He also leads Simulation and Modelling Cross-Cutting Capability for CSIRO’s Future Science and Technology.

He holds Adjunct Associate Professor position at the University of South Australia (School of IT and Math Sciences). He is Board member of the ACU’s IT Industry Advisory Board (Chair), and Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments (IVE) University of South Australia.

Bednarz completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Physics and Applied Computer Science at the AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland. He completed his doctoral degree in Interdisciplinary Engineering Sciences at the Kyushu University, Japan; and received MBA (Technology) from the AGSM (UNSW), Australia.

His current roles reflect his conviction to a holistic approach to the wicked problems facing the collation, analytics and display of big data. His approach is expansive and encompasses the use of novel technologies (AR, VR, CAVE, Dome, AVIE), often in combination. Over the last couple of years, he has been involved in wide range of projects in area of immersive visualisation, human-computer interaction, computational imaging, image analysis and processing, visualisation, simulation, modelling, computer graphics, computer games, computational fluid dynamics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and multi-sensors assimilation.

He was Conference Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 (SIGGRAPH conferences are the world’s largest, most influential annual meetings and exhibitions in computer graphics and interactive techniques). Over last ten years, selected volunteering roles include: Computer Animation Festival Jury (SA2004), Courses Chair (SA2017), Member of ACM SIGGRAPH International Resources Committee (2013-2017), Virtual Augmented and Mixed Reality Jury (S2018), Reviewer, Panellist, Unified Jury Committee (2017), BoF Sessions Organiser, Submitter and Presenter.

UNSW, Art and Design, Computer Science and Engineering. Research Areas: Digital Twins, Simulation, Modelling, Immersive Visualisation, High-Performance Visualisation, Immersive Analytics, AI, Graphics Grammar, Computer Graphics, AR, VR, MR, Computer Vision, Computational Imaging, Art and Design.

Team: Visual Analytics (ex Big Data Visualisation and Analytics). Research Areas: Simulation, Modelling, Virtual Hubs, Computational Platforms, Big Data Analytics, Visual Analytics, Applied Computational Science, Accelerated Computing, Computational Imaging and Visualisation, AI.

UNSW

IT, Engineering and the Environment

Science and Engineering Faculty, Mathematical Sciences, Applied Mathematics, Numerical and Computational Mathematics

Science and Engineering Faculty, Institute for Future Environments, ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS)

Institute of Computer Science

While working at the QUT full-time (unpaid leave from CSIRO)

Information Technology Laboratory | Applied and Computational Mathematics Division
High Performance Computing and Scientific Visualization Group

School of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Software and web development company, iPhone Apps development.

Team: Prof David Waite, Prof John Fletcher, A/Prof Tomasz Bednarz, Dr Yuan Wang, Dr Lloyd Lian

1st Active Integrated Matter Conference, fot the role on the AIM17 organising committee

For the NeCTAR co-funded project Cloud-based Image Analysis and Processing Toolbox

Total of $150k for 3 years towards achieving vision of connecting various areas of sciences to bring new scientific benefits to CSIRO.
Julius Career Awards are designed to enhance the careers of exceptional early to mid career scientists. The aim is to develop and retain outstanding early to mid-career scientists with a view to enhancing science quality and reinforce a culture of scientific excellence.

Career Research Achievement Award for valuable research contribution to the Computational and Simulations Sciences TCP since joined CSIRO Mathematics Informatics and Statistics in early 2011.

Outstanding Paper Award for the presentation of the paper entitled “Effect of the Coil Size on a Convection of Air in a Cubic Enclosure”. This paper was selected for the outstanding paper award during the 10th Asian Pacific Confederation on Chemical Engineering in recognition of the originality of the research and the enthusiasm communicated in the presentation. APCChE 2004 Chairman - Masanobu Hasatani, signed the award.

Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Senior Member
ACM SIGGRAPH, Pioneer Member
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Computer Society, IEEE
Khronos Group, Individual Member

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