Who am I?

Full-time Researcher/PhD-student

with the KIT Computer Graphics Group, where I:

• Write research papers
• Develop research prototypes
• Teach courses like
  • Computer Graphics
  • GPU-Computing Lab
  • Graphics Programming Lab
• Supervise and coach teams of 5-6 students implementing games. As a part of the software engineering curriculum we are using a strict waterfall model software development process
  • Summer Term 12
  • Winter Term 12
  • Summer Term 13
  • Summer Term 15
  • Winter Term 15
  • Summer Term 16
• Supervise and coach student's BA & MA theses

Languages, Libraries and Tools that I use

• C++(11,14,…), Python, Lisp, Javascript, Java/C#, Haskell, .sh, PHP
• Data-oriented design
• CUDA, OpenCL, OpenGL, DirectX
• (Py-)Qt, Swing
• Emacs, Org-Mode, Visual Studio
• Getting Things Done, project management, Quantified Self
• LaTeX, TikZ
• HTML, CSS
• SQL, NoSQL
• Linux, Windows
• Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom
• German, English, a tiny bit of French

My Interests

Computer Graphics

• Global illumination
• Offline/real-time/interactive
• Physically-based
• Raytracing/visibility
• Spatial datastructures

Game Development

• Gameplay analysis
• Procedural generation
• Competetive games
• First- and third-person games
• Roguelikes

Programming languages & Compilers