Background
Bimber, Oliver was born on November 21, 1973 in Bad Marieneberg, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Son of Brigitte Bimber.
university professor computer scientist
Bimber, Oliver was born on November 21, 1973 in Bad Marieneberg, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Son of Brigitte Bimber.
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (honorary), Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland, 1997—1998. Master of Science in Computer Science (honorary), University of Applied Sciences, Giessen, Germany, 1994—1998. Postgraduate, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany, since 1998.
Early affiliations include the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (Rostock, Germany), the International Business Machines Corporation T. J. Watson Research Center (New York), the Dundalk Institute of Technology (Dundalk, Ireland), the Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics (Providence, Rhode Island) and the Giessen University of Applied Science in Giessen, Germany. A habilitation degree in Computer Science was awarded by Munich University of Technology in 2007. In 2009, Bimber was appointed professor at Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria, where he became head of the Institute of Computer Graphics.
From 2003 to 2010, he held the position of Junior Professor of Augmented Reality at Bauhaus University Weimar.
Bimber"s research focuses on next-generation technologies for visual computing, real-time rendering and visualization, computer vision, image analysis and processing, optics, and human visual perception.
Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Life partner Melanie Philipp.