The last colloquium of this semester will feature Associate Professor at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) Dr Christian Sandor whose lecture is entitled “Breaking the Barriers to True Augmented Reality”.
Date: 18 May 2018 (Friday)
Time: 2:30 pm
Venue: M6094 Future Cinema Studio, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, 18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon Tong
Topic: Breaking the Barriers to True Augmented Reality
About the Speaker:
Dr Christian Sandor is an Associate Professor at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), where he is co-directing the Interactive Media Design Lab together with Professor Hirokazu Kato. Since 2000, his foremost research interest is Augmented Reality, as he believes that it will have a profound impact on the future of mankind.
In 2005, he obtained a doctorate in Computer Science from the Munich University of Technology, Germany. He decided to explore the research world in the spirit of Alexander von Humboldt and has worked with leading research groups at institutions including: Columbia University (USA), Canon’s Leading-Edge Technology Research Headquarters (Japan), Graz University of Technology (Austria), University of Stuttgart (Germany), and Tohoku University (Japan).
Before joining NAIST, he directed the Magic Vision Lab. Together with his students, he won awards at the premier Augmented Reality conference, IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR): best demo (2011, 2016) and best poster honorable mention (2012, 2013). He has presented several keynotes and has acquired 2 million USD funding; in 2012, Magic Vision Lab was the first, and still only, Australian lab to be awarded in Samsung’s Global Research Outreach Program. In 2014, he received a Google Faculty Award for creating an Augmented Reality X-Ray system for Google Glass.
He serves as an editorial board member for Computers & Graphics (Elsevier), IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, and Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (Springer) and as a steering committee member for ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction and IEEE ISMAR. He has been program chair for numerous conferences, including IEEE ISMAR and SIGGRAPH Asia Symposium on Mobile Graphics And Interactive Applications.
To find out more about Dr Christian Sandor, you can check out the speaker’s pages.
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