CV Tomasz Bednarz
Tomasz is a Director of Strategic Researcher Engagement at NVIDIA Corporation. My team at NVIDIA build active collaborations with top researchers and premier research institutions that do compelling, computationally intense work to solve some of the world’s most challenging scientific problems.
Earlier he was a Director and Head of Visualisation at the Expanded Perception & Interaction Centre (EPICentre) at the UNSW Art & Design and UNSW Computer Science and Engineering. He was at the same time, a Research Team Leader at CSIRO’s Data61 (leading Visual/Hybrid Analytics Team, in Software & Computational Systems research program). He also led Simulation and Modelling Cross-Cuttin g Capability for CSIRO’s Future Science and Technology.
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 past 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 and emerging technologies. 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, accelerated computing, simulation, modelling, computer graphics, computer games, computational fluid dynamics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and multi-sensors assimilation.
Currently serving as a SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Advisory Group (SACAG) Chair, and is voting director of ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee. Earlier, 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. In years 2022-24 he is serving as SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Advisory Group (SACAG) Chair, contributing to the future of SIGGRAPH Asia conferences and connecting global research community.
Google Scholar Publications
EDUCATION
AGSM, University of New South Wales (UNSW) | Sydney, Australia
Received 2020 The MBAX Prize, which is awarded to the top performer in specialisation in the MBA (Technology) program 8625.
Kyushu University, Interdisciplinary School of Engineering Sciences | Fukuoka, Japan
Australian Catholic University (ACU) | North Sydney, Australia
AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science | Krakow, Poland
AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science | Krakow, Poland
EMPLOYMENT
NVIDIA Corporation | Santa Clara, USA
NVIDIA Developer Programs
CSIRO's Data61 | Sydney, Australia
Visiting Scientist at Data61 - Artificial Intelligence, Simulation, Modelling, XR.
Expanded Perception and Interaction Centre (EPICentre) | Sydney, Australia
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.
CSIRO's Data61 | Sydney / Brisbane, Australia
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.
maas.museum | Ultimo NSW, Australia
Work on the exhibition Invisible Revealed, collaboration between MAAS and ANSTO. My contributions included: photogrammetry works, Augmented Reality app, AI for in-paining, AI for photogrammetry assistance.
Australian Researchers in Interactive Virtual Environments (ARIVE) | Australia and New Zealand
University of South Australia (UniSA) | Adelaide, Australia
IT, Engineering and the Environment
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) | Brisbane, Australia
Science and Engineering Faculty, Mathematical Sciences, Applied Mathematics, Numerical and Computational Mathematics
The University of Sydney | Sydney, Australia
| Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning | The Design Lab |
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) | Brisbane, Australia
Science and Engineering Faculty, Institute for Future Environments, ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS)
CSIRO | Brisbane, Australia
While working at the QUT full-time (unpaid leave from CSIRO)
CSIRO | Brisbane, Australia
| Team: Statistical Inference | Analytics Research Program |
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | Gaithersburg MD, USA
Information Technology Laboratory | Applied and Computational Mathematics Division
High Performance Computing and Scientific Visualization Group
CSIRO | Sydney, Australia
CSIRO | Brisbane, Australia
James Cook University (JCU) | Townsville, Australia
School of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Kolor Design Pty Ltd | Townsville, Australia
Software and web development company, iPhone Apps development.
AWARDS
MAGNA Australian Museums and Galleries Association
Collaboration between MAAS, ANSTO and myself in the role of Powerhouse Research Fellow. Our exhibtion was among 30 exhibitions nominated across five award categories, which spotlight the Australian cultural sector’s most creative and innovative cultural projects.
WAITRO
Team: Prof David Waite, Prof John Fletcher, A/Prof Tomasz Bednarz, Dr Yuan Wang, Dr Lloyd Lian
UNSW Faculty of Art and Design, Dean's Award (signed by Professor Ross Harley)
CSIRO's Data61, Software and Computational Systems Program Award
CSIRO
1st Active Integrated Matter Conference, fot the role on the AIM17 organising committee
iAwards
For the NeCTAR co-funded project Cloud-based Image Analysis and Processing Toolbox
CSIRO Office of the Chief Executive Science, Australia
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.
CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics
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.
10th Asian Pacific Conferderation on Chemical Engineering, Kitakyushu, Japan
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.
The Monbukagakusho (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - MEXT) scholarship to study at Japanese university (Khushu University)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
ACM SIGGRAPH
IEEE
Collaborative Conference on Computational and Intensive Data Science 2021
CSIRO
ACM SIGGRAPH External Relations
ACM SIGGRAPH
ACM SIGGRAPH
Khronos Group
IEEE
ACM SIGGRAPH
Khronos Group
Khronos Group
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
MEDIA COVERAGE
Session from the GTC 2024 tailered for students and your professionals, sharing insights on carieers in AI.
Video from BESydney about SIGGRAPH Asia 2023
Interview about the impact, business opportunities, as well challenges that Generative AI opens up, how digital twins will continue to evolve, and AI’s role in the metaverse
GTC 2023 session
GTC 2023 session
GTC 2023 session
Opening ceremony, SIGGRAPH Asia 2022. 홍준표 대구시장, ‘시그래프 아시아 2022’개막.
Interview at SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 in Daegu
KPMG report on forcasing the future of XR and the metaverse
CSIRO’s Data61 Algorithm
SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 Collaboration Story
AWN Animation World Network
FMX 2016 Stuttgart, Germany
GTC 2012 Guest Blog