Date: 2015-12-18 Time: 10:15, Room: 447
Tomasz Bednarz
“Four hats: engineering, art, science and design.”
This presentation will showcase various projects that I was part of, at the Kyushu University, James Cook University, CSIRO and now at the QUT. There won’t be a particular focus, as I rather prefer to show wide range of capabilities and use cases, that could be later further discussed, and possibly initiate collaborations. I will pick up few examples, that could be of interest to scientific community. So, please join, if you want to hear about flying frogs, how to make zero-gravity in terrestrial environments, see how diurnal temperature influences exchange flows in reservoirs, how to measure temperature non-invasively, how to build interactive tele-operating systems, how to prepare and build human-computer interaction experiments, generate 360 degrees panorama. Also, how to use PDEs and GPUs to detect cancer from micro CT-scans, how to build Virtual Laboratory that runs in clouds and executes wide range of image analysis and image processing operations, how to look at modern big data analytics, visual analytics and visualisation frameworks, and at the end how to connect design, art, science and engineering together.
Speakers Bio:
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). Earlier, he worked as a Research Team Leader (Statistical Analytics and Inference), Computational Research Scientist and Projects Leader at CSIRO’s Digital Productivity and Services Flagship. He joined CSIRO in early 2009, and initially 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/
Date: 2015-12-18 Time: 10:15, Room: 447
Instytut Fizyki Teoretycznej
Uniwersytet Wrocławski
pl. Maksa Borna 9
50-204 Wrocław
Polska