Markus Gross

Markus Gross is a professor of computer science, chair of the institute of computational science, and director of the Computer Graphics Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He received a Master of Science in electrical and computer engineering and a PhD in computer graphics and image analysis, both from the University of Saarbrucken, Germany. From 1990 to 1994, Gross worked for the Computer Graphics Center in Darmstadt, where he established and directed the Visual Computing Group. His research interests include point-based graphics, physically-based modeling, multiresolution analysis, and virtual reality. He has published more than 130 scientific papers on computer graphics and scientific visualization, and he authored the book Visual Computing, Springer, 1994. He holds various patents on core graphics and visualization technologies. Gross has taught courses at major graphics conferences including ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE Visualization, and Eurographics. He serves as a member of international program committees of many graphics conferences and on the editorial board of various scientific journals. From 2002-2006 he was a member of the ETH research commission. Dr. Gross serves in board positions of a number of international research institutes, societies and government organizations. He is chair of the technical advisory committee of Ageia Corporation. Gross co-founded Cyfex AG, Novodex AG, and LiberoVision AG.

His research has been motivated by his desire to advance the field of computer graphics by developing methods and systems founded on a profound mathematical and algorithmic basis. It is this blend of mathematics and algorithmics that characterises the research contributions that Markus has made to computer graphics,for example his pioneering work on point-based graphics and wavelet techniques. His work has achieved international recognition through best paper awards from journals and conferences.

Within Eurographics, Markus has been an Executive Committee member for many years and is a long-standing member of the IPC for Eurographics. He was programme co-chair for Eurographics 2000 and was programme chair for SIGGRAPH 2005. He was also programme co-chair for IEEE Visualization '99 and 2002. He is a leading figure in the point-based graphics symposium.

Markus Gross was elected to a Fellowship of the Association in recognition of:

• His research contributions at the interface between computer graphics, mathematics and algorithmics,
• His contribution to raising the quality the EG conference, and raising the profile of European CG research worldwide through his chairmanship of PCs of world-leading conferences,
• His contribution to the emergence of point-based graphics as a distinct field within computer graphics, and to the promotion of that through the Eurographics point-based graphics symposium, the first of which was organised by Markus in 2004.