Prof. Dr. Dominik L. Michels
Computer Science & Mathematics
Short Bio
Dominik L. Michels' research aims for the development of principled computational methods targeting simulation tasks in the fields of Visual and Scientific Computing. This is based on solid theoretical foundations resulting from fundamental research comprising Algorithmics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Algebra, Machine Learning, Mathematical Modeling, and Numerical Analysis. Since summer 2016, he is heading the Computational Sciences Group within KAUST's Visual Computer Center. Previously, he joined Stanford University in fall 2014 heading the High Fidelity Algorithmics Group within the Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication. Prior to this, he did postdoctoral studies in Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech in spring and summer 2014. He studied Computer Science and Physics at University of Bonn and B-IT, from where he received a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Physics in 2011, a M.Sc. in Computer Science in 2013, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Natural Sciences on Stiff Cauchy Problems in Scientific Computing in early 2014. During his academic studies he was visiting several international institutions, among others Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Moscow. His studies and research were awarded and supported with various honors, for example by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, with a Johannes Kepler Foundation Scholarship awarded for excellent achievements in algorithmics and geometry, by the ACM SIGSAM for achievements in computer algebra, and with the academic award of the AFCEA. In the non-academic context, he serves as a research partner in the sections of high-technology and consumer goods partnering with and advising leading multinational companies and research institutions from various sectors, specifically from the high-technology and consumer goods sections. In this context, he received the first Procter & Gamble Faculty Award for his research contributions to the consumer goods industry. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE, the London Mathematical Society, and the AGYA project at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He was selected as a member of the top-class jury for the German AI Award, and was awarded an Artificial Intelligence Grant of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of its Academic Expat Program endowed with 1.25 million euros.
Background and Academic Achievements
| 2016 | Professorship, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Currently Associate Professor at KAUST, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering, Early Promotion to Associate Professor Level, Previously: Assistant Professor, Head of the Computational Sciences Group at the Visual Computing Center. |
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| 2014 | Professorship, Computer Science, Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, School of Engineering, Head of the High Fidelity Algorithmics Group at the Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication. |
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| 2014 | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Postdoctoral Fellow at California Institute of Technology, Caltech Computing and Mathematical Sciences. |
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| 2014 | Ph.D., Mathematics and Natural Sciences (summa cum laude), Dr.rer.nat. of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Bonn. |
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| 20XX | Research visits during academic studies at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. |
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| 2013 | M.Sc., Computer Science (first-class honors), University of Bonn and Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology. |
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| 2011 | B.Sc., Computer Science and Physics (highest scores), University of Bonn. |
