Piotr Didyk  

Associate Professor

Faculty of Informatics

Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)

East Campus, Sector D, Office D4.12 (Level P4)

Via la Santa 1

6962 Lugano-Viganello, Switzerland


Email address:

Phone: +41 58 666 4939

About me:

I am an Associate Professor at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Switzerland where I am heading a group on Perception, Display, and Fabrication. I am also a co-director of the Master's Program in Artificial Intelligence at USI. In my research, I combine perception, computation, and hardware to create better display and fabrication techniques. More specifically, my interests include human perception, new display technologies, image/video processing, 3D printing, and computational fabrication. Before my current position, I was an Independent Research Group Leader at Saarland University, MMCI and Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany. I have also spent two years as a postdoc with Prof. Wojciech Matusik at MIT. I obtained my Ph.D. from Saarland University and Max Planck Institute under Prof. Karol Myszkowski and M.Sc. degree from University of Wrocław in Poland. In 2018, I was awarded an ERC Starting Grant, and in 2019, I was elected Junior Fellow of the European Association for Computer Graphics.

I usually spend my free time with my family as well as enjoy various outdoor activities such as mountain biking, hiking, running, skiing, and mountaineering. I also love taking photographs although for this I have recently slightly less time.

Professional activities:

Editorial Boards:

2021 - present:

Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Graphics

2021 - present:

Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Organizing Committees:

2024:

Co-Chair of ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication

International Program Committees:

2023:

ACM SIGGRAPH (Technical Papers), Eurographics (Full Papers)

2022:

Eurographics (Full Papers), Eurographics (State of the Art Reports), Eurographics Symposium on Rendering Techniques (Research Track),
High Performance Graphics (Papers), Pacific Graphics (Full/Short Technical Papers), ACM Siggraph Asia (COI Coordinator)

2021:

Eurographics (Full Papers), Eurographics Symposium on Rendering Techniques (Research Track),
High Performance Graphics (Papers), ACM Symposium on Applied Perception

2020:

ACM SIGGRAPH (Technical Papers), Eurographics (Full Papers), High Performance Graphics (Papers)

2019:

ACM SIGGRAPH (Technical Papers), Eurographics (Full Papers), Pacific Graphics (Full/Short Technical Papers)

2018:

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (Technical Papers), Eurographics (Full Papers), Pacific Graphics (Full/Short Technical Papers)

2017:

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (Technical Briefs & Posters), High Performance Graphics (Papers), Eurographics (State-of-the-Art Reports),
CAD/Graphics (Full Papers)

2016:

ACM SIGGRAPH (Technical Papers), International Workshop on Egocentric Perception, Interaction and Computing

2015:

ACM SIGGRAPH (Technical Papers), Eurographics (Short Papers), CAD/Graphics (Full Papers)

2014:

Eurographics (Short Papers)

Other Committees:

2023:

ACM SIGGRAPH Best Paper Award

2018:

Eurographics Günter Enderle Best Paper Award

2014:

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, E-Tech Prize

Teaching:

WS 2023/2024:

Computer Graphics

SS 2023:

Image and Video Processing

Computational Fabrication

WS 2022/2023:

Computer Graphics (rendering competition)

SS 2022:

Computational Fabrication

WS 2021/2022:

Computer Graphics

WS 2020/2021:

Computer Graphics

SS 2020:

Computational Fabrication

WS 2019/2020:

Computer Graphics (co-lecturer: Kai Hormann)

WS 2018/2019:

Computer Graphics (co-lecturer: Kai Hormann)

WS 2017/2018:

Perception for Computer Graphics (co-lecturer: Karol Myszkowski)

SS 2017:

Computational Fabrication

WS 2016/2017:

Perception for Computer Graphics (co-lecturer: Karol Myszkowski)

SS 2016:

Computational Fabrication

WS 2015/2016:

Perception for Computer Graphics (co-lecturer: Karol Myszkowski)

SS 2015:

Seminar on Computational Display and Fabrication (co-lecturer: Karol Myszkowski)

WS 2014/2015:

Perception for Computer Graphics (co-lecturer: Karol Myszkowski & Tobias Ritschel)