Profiles

Peter Wonka holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science (Dipl.-Ing.) in 1997, an M.Sc. in Urban Planning (Dipl.-Ing.) in 2002, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Dr. techn.) in 2001 from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

Before joining KAUST in 2011 as an Associate Professor of Computer Science, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology and served as Assistant and Associate Professor at Arizona State University. He is currently a Full Professor at KAUST. He has also held roles as the CS Program Chair and Interim Director of the Visual Computing Center.

Professor Wonka is the recipient of the National Science Foundation Career Award.

Professor Wonka’s research interests lie in computer vision, computer graphics, remote sensing, and machine learning. His current research focus is deep learning, generative modeling of images, videos and 3D scenes, 3D reconstruction, 3D computer vision, and 3D vision and language.

Aleksandar Cvejic obtained his bachelor with honors in electrical and computer engineering from University of Novi Sad in 2019. After which, he continued to pursue master’s degree at the same university while specializing in artificial intelligence and obtaining the degree in 2021. During his master studies, he also worked as a TA for several courses, including Algorithms and data structures, Fundamental of information systems and software engineering, Xml and Web Services, Numerical algorithms and numerical software, basics of computing.

Aleksandar Cvejic is interested in topics related to deep learning, machine learning and computer vision.