Vlastimil Havran
curriculum vitae
This is a short online version of my CV focused on my professional interests.

Two pages PDF version of my CV (April 2012).

Curriculum vitae

since 2011: Associate professor (in Czech "docent") at Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction, FEE, CTU, Prague, Czech Republic.
2009 - 2011: Adjunct professor/senior researcher at Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction, FEE, CTU, Prague, Czech Republic.
2006 - 2008: Assistant professor/senior researcher at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, FEE, CTU, Prague, Czech Republic.
2003 - 2006: Senior researcher at MPI Informatik, Saarbruecken, Germany.
2001 - 2003: Postdoc at MPI Informatik, Saarbruecken, Germany.
1996 - 2001: PhD studies at FEE, CTU, Prague, Czech Republic.
1990 - 1996: Master studies (Engineer) at FEE, CTU, Prague, Czech Republic.

Professional activities

  • Member of International Programme Committees (IPC): Eurographics 2012, SCCG 2012, GRAPP 2012, WSCG 2012, HPG 2011, SCCG 2011, GRVR 2011, EG short papers 2011, GRAPP 2011, WSCG 2011, EGSR 2010, HPG 2010, EG short papers 2010, SCCG 2010, GRAPP 2010, WSCG 2010, HPG 2009, EGSR 2009, GRAPP 2009, SCCG 2009, WSCG 2009, SCCG 2008, GRAPP 2008, Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2008, EG 2007 (Tutorial co-chair), GRAPP 2007, SCCG 2007, Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2007, GRAPP 2006, SCCG 2006, Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2006.
  • Reviewer for journals: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CGA), IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Computers and Graphics (Elsevier), Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), Visual Computer, Journal of Graphics Tools (JGT).
  • Reviewer for conferences: main SIGGRAPH conferences, main Eurographics conferences, Eurographics Symposia on Rendering, Symposia on Interactive Ray Tracing, High Performance Graphics, GRAPP conferences, Graphics Interface, SCCG conferences, WSCG conferences, Graphicon, Pacific Graphics, etc.

Research interestes

Data structures and algorithms for rendering images and videos, visibility calculations, geometric range searching for global illumination, software architectures for rendering, applied Monte Carlo methods, reflectance function representations, data compression etc.

Language skills

Mother tongue Czech, fluent English, good German, intermediate of Russian, basic Spanish.


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