Wolfgang Heidrich
About
Wolfgang Heidrich is a German-Canadian computer scientist and Professor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), for which he served as the director of Visual Computing Center. from 2014 to 2021. He was previously a professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he was a Dolby Research Chair (2008-2013). His research has combined methods from computer graphics, optics, machine vision, imaging, inverse methods, and perception to develop new Computational Imaging and Display technologies. His more recent interest focuses on hardware-software co-design of the next generation of imaging systems, with applications such as high dynamic range (HDR) imaging, compact computational cameras, hyper-spectral cameras, wavefront sensors, to name just a few.
