He has an MSc and a PhD in Computer Science from Graz University of Technology, Austria. Finishing his PhD, he received the highest possible honor for achievement in Austria, the promotion sub auspiciis prasidentis rei publicae. After his PhD he was with the mobile computer vision research group at NVIDIA, California, before leading his own group on GPU Scheduling and parallel computing at Graz University of Technology (2014-2015) and at the Max-Planck-Center for Visual Computing and Communication in Saarbrücken (2015-2017). In 2014 he became the first Austrian to win the GI Dissertation Prize. He has also won the OCG Heinz Zemanek Prize in 2016. His wide research interests are reflected by the numerous awards won by his papers, including ACM CHI, IEEE Infovis, Eurographics, ACM NPAR, EG/ACM HPG, IEEE HPEC best paper and honorable mention awards.