Who I am
Profile
I am a computer scientist with extensive expertise in web development and web programming, as well as computer graphics and visualization. Having earned two computer science degrees in Canada and Germany, I am fluent in speaking English as well as German. I like to develop, design and use helpful web applications, visualization and graphics software - since 2000.
Professional experience
- 2003 - present
- Co-Founder / Web Developer, Frag-Mutti.de
- Development, design and administration of the website www.frag-mutti.de ("ask mom"), Germany's most popular website for housekeeping tips and cooking recipes (currently 70,000 visitors per day).
- Publication of three successful (non-scientific) books written in German (see publications) with over 120,000 copies sold, one of the books having been translated to Polish.
- 2009 - 2011
- Visualization Application Programmer, Simon Fraser University
- Design and implementation of visualization applications.
- Visual data analysis.
- Training of faculty and students in the use of various commercially-available and custom software tools.
- Development and maintainance of the project website.
- 2007 - 2009
- Research Assistant, Simon Fraser University
- Research in the fields of scientific visualization and computer graphics.
- Design and implementation of volume rendering and computed tomography applications.
- 2000 - 2006
- Web Application Developer, on-web AG, Germany
- Design, implementation and support of the in-house eCommerce software.
- Design and development of different web sites.
Education
- 2007 - 2009
- Master of Science. Computer Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC, Canada
- 2003 - 2009
- German Diplom (M.Sc.). Media Informatics (computer science), University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Software
My tools
- PHP, SQL, (X)HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Node.js, Yii, Drupal, Serendipity, Wordpress, C, C++, GLSL, Matlab, R, Java
- vim, OpenGL, Physically-Based Rendering Toolkit (PBRT), Latex, Apache web server, MySQL, Lightroom, Gimp, iMovie
Publications
- Bernhard Finkbeiner, Alireza Entezari, Dimitri Van De Ville, Torsten Möller, "Efficient volume rendering on the body centered cubic lattice using box splines", Computers & Graphics, CAG 34(4): 409--423, DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2010.02.002, 2010.
- Bernhard Finkbeiner, Usman R. Alim, Dimitri Van De Ville, Torsten Möller, "High-Quality Volumetric Reconstruction on Optimal Lattices for Computed Tomography", Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics/IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization 2009 (EuroVis 2009)), vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 1023-1030, Berlin, Germany, June 2009.
- Bernhard Finkbeiner, "Fast Computed Tomography and Volume Rendering Using the Body-Centered Cubic Lattice", Master's Thesis, Simon Fraser University, April 2009
- Bernhard Finkbeiner, Hans-Jörg Brekle, "Frag Mutti das Sparbuch", Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, ISBN: 3-596-17814-2, Germany, July 2008.
- Bernhard Finkbeiner, Hans-Jörg Brekle, "Frag Vati", Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, ISBN: 3-596-17474-0, Germany, June 2007.
- Bernhard Finkbeiner, Hans-Jörg Brekle, "Frag Mutti", Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, ISBN: 3-596-16937-2, Germany, March 2006.
Hobbies
- Nature and wildlife photography
- Movies
