Michael Birsak
Research Scientist at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
Thuwal, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Birsak is a research scientist at KAUST with eight years of experience at the intersection of deep learning, computer graphics, and image processing. He earned a PhD in Computer Graphics from TU Wien, where his work combined discrete optimization and Mixed Integer Programming to tackle diverse applications from GIS to digital arts. After a postdoctoral fellowship at KAUST and years as a research assistant and instructor, he blends rigorous academic research with practical mentorship and industry internships. His strengths lie in bringing formal optimization techniques into modern learning-driven graphics pipelines, yielding interpretable and deployable solutions. Based in Thuwal, he pairs cross-disciplinary curiosity with a track record of supervising students and collaborating with enterprise IT teams. Not obviously academic, he also has hands-on experience from multiple internships at a major Austrian IT provider, giving him a pragmatic edge in translating research into real-world systems.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyMatura, Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen, Matura, Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen at HTL Hollabrunn
German, English
Github Skills (8)
google10
python9
certificate9
automation9
inverse2
physics1
editing1
rendering1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Exception1984/CS323-2022
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:24 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
Exception1984/StringArt
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:2 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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