Career

since 2026Research Scientist II at Adobe Research – London, UK

2023 – 2025Research Scientist at Adobe Research – London, UK

Education

PhDKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) – Thuwal, KSA

2017 – 2023Computer Science | Advisor: Peter Wonka

Thesis: Latent Space Manipulation of GANs for Seamless Image Compositing

MScVienna University of Technology – Vienna, Austria

2015Visual Computing | Advisor: Meister Eduard Gröller

Thesis: Decoupling Object Manipulation from Rendering in a Thin Client Visualization System

BScVienna University of Technology – Vienna, Austria

2011Media Informatics and Visual Computing

Professional Experience

Area Chair for ECCV 2026

TPC Member for SIGGRAPH Asia 2024

Reviewer for ECCV, CVPR, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, TVCG, TOG, TOMM

2022Intern at Meta Reality Labs Research – Sausalito, CA

Investigating 3D-aware generation as a tool for context-aware video editing to unlock realistic 3D editing for human faces in a temporally constistent fashion. ↪ Publication

2020Intern at Adobe Research – remote due to COVID-19

Designing strategies for controllable image synthesis of large-scale photorealistic full-body human images using state-of-the-art machine learning techniques. ↪ Publication

2020Intern at Weta Digital – remote due to COVID-19

Designing and evaluating state-of-the art Generative Adversarial Networks for high-resolution texture synthesis. Research on how to dissect GAN models for improved controllability for user interaction.

2016Trainee at SPL, Harvard Medical School – Boston, MA

Implementation of GPU-accelerated browser-based visualization software. Design and development of user interface components for web-based imaging. Browser-based GPU processing through grid-based PDE solver for 2D and 3D image segmentation. Integration with open-source visualization and medical imaging software 3D Slicer

2015Visiting Researcher at KAUST – Thuwal, KSA

Development of my Master Thesis research project with the Visualization Group at the Visual Computing Center, supervised by Peter Rautek

2010 – 2012Software Developer at SimVis – Vienna, Austria

Independent design and development of different components of the visualization software SimVis for the interactive visual analysis of time-dependent and multi-dimensional data, e.g. computational fluid dynamics, climate research, architectural flow visualization

Awards

Teaching and Mentorship

2025 – 2026Mentor for WiGRAPH Rising Stars

2021 – 2022Student Ambassador for CEMSE Division at KAUST

2021 & 2019Teaching Assistant for Deep Learning for Visual Computing (CS323) at KAUST