Ivan Viola
Professor at nanographics
Thuwal, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia
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Top SchoolIvan Viola is a visualization and computer graphics professor and entrepreneur with a long academic track record spanning TU Wien, University of Bergen, and KAUST. He holds a Ph.D. from TU Wien and has built and led research groups in visual computing, translating that work into industry as co-founder of Nanographics, which commercializes 3D visualization for life sciences. His career blends theoretical rigor and practical impact—he secured competitive funding, advised industry research labs, and repeatedly moved between academia and commercialization. Based in Thuwal, he is known for establishing the Nanovisualization Research Group at KAUST, signaling a sustained focus on pushing visualization from novel algorithms toward real-world scientific workflows.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of Technology
English, Slovak, German, Czech, Norwegian
Github Skills (4)
science10
react10
ranking10
computer-science10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ivanviola/ieeevis.org
Jun 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:10 pushes in 11 months
ivanviola/CSrankings
Sep 2022 - May 2023
A web app for ranking computer science departments according to their research output in selective venues, and for finding active faculty across a wide range of areas.
Contributions:15 pushes in 7 months
reactscienceresearch-outputselectivefinding
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