Adjunct Associate Professor
Tomasz Bednarz
This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Biography
A/Prof. Tomasz Bednarz currently works as a Principal Research Fellow at the QUT Science and Engineering Faculty (between the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers, and Institute of Future Environments). He also works as Team Leader at CSIRO Data61, leading Big Data Visualisation & Analytics. When he joined CSIRO in early 2009, he worked as a 3D Visualisation Software Engineer at CSIRO Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies. In early 2011, he moved to Sydney to carry out works on image analysis using GPGPUs and heterogeneous architectures, and led NeCTAR funded Cloud-based Image Analysis and Processing Toolbox project (http://cloudimaging.net.au). He also led project Platform for Big Data Analytics and Visual Analytics, aiming to connect data analytics, statistical modelling, image analytics, machine learning, visualisation into one stack of reusable solutions running on the CSIRO infrastructure. Prior to CSIRO, he has worked as Associate Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at the James Cook University in Townsville investigating numerically and experimentally exchange flows in reservoirs subject to thermal heating, cooling, or in diurnal cycles. He has also worked in creative industry as a programmer (game development), and also as a web and graphics designer. His broad range of expertise spanning from image analysis, through numerical simulations and experiments with fluids, visualisation, computer graphics, demoscene, visual analytics, big data analytics to Human-Computer Interactions is evidenced by the quality and number of publications (http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-7376-2011). He co-organizes Brisbane GPU Meetup group, is active member of the ACM SIGGRAPH International Resources Committee, chairs IEEE Computer Society Queensland Chapter, Brisbane ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter, and leads the Brisbane Khronos Group chapter. He actively promotes use of computational and visualisation techniques for science and research, and art + science methodology.
Personal details
Keywords
Visual Analytics, Visualisation, Big Data Analytics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Sciences, Accelerated Computing, Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Reality-Virtuality Continuum, Immersive Visualisation, Art + Science + Design + Engineering
Discipline
Applied Mathematics, Numerical and Computational Mathematics
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Kyushu University)
- MSc in Technical Physics (AGH University of Science and Technology)
- BSc in Technical Physics (AGH University of Science and Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH): Pioneer
- Brisbane SIGGRAPH Chapter: Chair
- Khronos Group: Individual Member, Brisbane Khronos Chapter Leader
- IEEE Computer Society: Senior Member, Chair
- CSIRO Data61: Team Leader (Visual Analytics)
- UNSW Art & Design: Director and Head of Visualisation
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 Conference Chair
Honorary positions:
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Design Lab, University of Sydney
- Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, University of South Australia
- Associate Investigator (QUT and UNSW) and Partner Investigator (CSIRO), ACEMS
Teaching
- Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs):
- MAN717 Minor Project
- Invited lecture "Modern Platforms for Big Data Analytics, Graphics and Visualisation" (University of Wroclaw, Poland)
- Visualisation using OpenGL (workshop/course)
- Supervising Vacation Research Experience Scheme (VRES) projects
- Supervising PhD projects
- MXB361 Aspects of Computational Science
- Mathematics and Statistics of Big Data, AMSI Summer School 2017
Experience
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) with a special attention to the filed of magneto-hydro dynamics (magnetic driven flows and exchange flows in reservoirs during diurnal cycles (Environmental fluid dynamics)
- Human Computer Interactions
- Tele-Operated Ship-loader (360-degree video stream displayed on the 3-m hemispherical dome, remotely operated)
- Immersive Visualisation Systems
- Computational Imaging and Visualisation
- Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality fields (using various visualisation applications, modalities and platforms)
- Real-time computer graphics (demoscene) and game development for Nintendo DS
- GPUs: visualisation and compute (CUDA, OpenCL, OpenGL, Vulkan)
- Cloud based Image Analysis and Processing Toolbox
- Bulding modern platforms for Big Data Analytics and Visual Analytics
Selected publications
QUT ePrints
To find publications by Tomasz, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Awards
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Keynote at the 3rd ISAT (Collision, Collaboration and the Future of ArtSci)Conference 2016, Taiwan
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Merit Recipient at Queensland iAward 2015 for the NeCTAR and CSIRO co-funded project Cloud-based Image Analysis and Processing Toolbox cloudimaging.net.au.
- Type
- Visiting Professorships/Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Visiting Professor at the University of Wroclaw
- Type
- Appointment to Prestigious Positions
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Guest Researcher position at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Information Technology Laboratory, Applied and Computational Mathematics Division, High Performance Computing and Scientific Visualization Group.
- Type
- Appointment to Prestigious Positions
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- Individual Khronos Group member.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Julius Career Award: 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.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Career Research Achievement Award 2012: CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics. Award for valuable research contribution to the Computational and Simulations Sciences TCP since joined CSIRO Mathematics Informatics and Statistics.
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- The grant worth of $1,435,000 over period of approximately one and a half years. The project that connects various imaging modalities on national cloud infrastructure, see http://cloudimaging.net.au