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Contact information Phone: +43-699-18056500 Web: http://barakonyi.net/ Personal information Year of birth: 1977 Marital status: married Nationality: Hungarian Education PhD course at the Vienna University of Technology and Graz University of Technology, Austria, 2002 - 2006, graduated with distinction, Topic: Ubiquitous Animated Agents for Augmented Reality Visiting researcher, National Institute of Informatics, Prendinger Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan, 2005 October - November, Topic: Using an Unobtrusive Eye Tracker as Input Modality for Remote Collaboration in an Augmented Reality Conferencing System Visiting researcher (Monbusho scholarship), University of Tokyo, Japan, Ishizuka Laboratory, 2000 October - 2002 March, Topic: Scriptable Affective 3D Talking Head Master's degree in Computer Science, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, special program in Multimedia and Communication Networks, 1995-2000, Master thesis on Multimedia Demonstration of Object Networks (using interactive simulation and visualization of computer networks and network protocols) Exchange student scholarship, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA, 1998 Fall semester Summer university course on Picture Technology Applications organized by the Board of European Students of Technology, Grenoble, France, 1999 Zrinyi Miklos High School, special program in mathematics, winner of the Zrinyi Miklos Foundation Award, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary, 1991-1995 Summary of qualifications 10+ years of software development experience Mobile platforms: Android, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Symbian OS (S60, UIQ) / Carbide.C++, iPhone OS / XCode PC platforms: WinXP/Vista/7, Unix/Linux, MacOS X C/C++, ACE, Java, JFC/Swing, SQL, XML-related technologies (XPath, XSLT, DTD, Schema, XML databases, etc.), Matlab, i386 assembly, Pascal, Visual Basic OpenGL, DirectX, OpenInventor (SGI, TGS, Coin), OpenSceneGraph Javascript, HTML, DHTML, VRML, CSS, Macromedia Director, Lingo, Dreamweaver, DVD authoring tools, Maya, 3D Studio Max, Character Studio, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, AfterEffects, QuarkXPress, LaTeX 5+ years of commercial experience in developing mobile 3D graphics and handheld user interfaces Rich research experience in Augmented reality, virtual reality Ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing Multimodal interfaces Interactive 3D information visualization and animation Software agents, animated presentational agents, 3D facial animation, affective behavior and emotion models, character design Project management skills Managing mobile augmented reality projects with customers and research partners Controlling and reporting for a European Union 5th Framework Program project Project supervision for several students at Bachelor’s and Master’s level Training experience as a teaching assistant in university courses Workshops at the Student Leadership Conference in Chicago organized by Andersen Consulting as the only Hungarian participant, 1999 Outstanding oral and written presentation skills Publications, presentations and demos at prestigious international conferences Presentations and reports at EU project meetings and for the EU Commission Employment and job experience Staff Engineer, Qualcomm Austria Research Center, Vienna, Austria, 2009 March – to date Mobile Software Engineer, Magitech GmbH, Vienna, Austria, 2007 January – 2009 March Visiting researcher at the National Institute of Informatics, Multimedia Information Research Division, Tokyo, Japan, 2005 October - November Research assistant in the START project of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Graz University of Technology, Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision, Graz, Austria, 2004 June – 2006 December Research assistant in the Lab@Future European Union IST project, Vienna University of Technology, Interactive Media Systems Group, Vienna, Austria, 2002 June - 2005 April Visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo, Japan, Dept. of Communication and Information Engineering, Ishizuka Laboratory, 2000 October - 2002 March Software developer, Digital Elite, Los Angeles, Dee3DB Java applet-based database manipulation through Internet, 2000 Software developer, Siemens-Hungary, interactive search engine with graphical user interface using JDBC for touch-screen terminal, Multimedia-Max Ltd., 2000 Software developer, Moulin Rouge, Budapest, table-booking software using JDBC and JFC, Multimedia-Max Ltd., 2000 Scientific activities Program Committee Member: ISMAR 2006-2010 Reviewer for numerous prestigious conferences and journals Publicity Co-Chair, ISMAR 2007, Nara, Japan Student volunteer, ISMAR 2005, Vienna, Austria Organizing Committee Member, Virtual Conversational Characters: Applications, Methods, and Research Challenges Workshop at the HF’2002 and OZCHI 2002 Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 2002 Selected publications I. Barakonyi, D. Schmalstieg, "Ubiquitous Animated Agents for Augmented Reality", In Proc. of IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2006 (ISMAR'06), Santa Barbara, CA, USA I. Barakonyi, D. Schmalstieg, "Augmented Reality in the Character Animation Pipeline", SIGGRAPH sketch, SIGGRAPH 2006, Boston, MA, USA I. Barakonyi, T. Psik, D. Schmalstieg, "Agents That Talk And Hit Back: Animated Agents in Augmented Reality", In Proc. of IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2004 (ISMAR'04), Nov. 2-5, 2004, Arlington, VA, USA, pp. 141-150. I. Barakonyi, T. Fahmy, D. Schmalstieg, "Remote Collaboration Using Augmented Reality Videoconferencing", In Proc. of Graphics Interface 2004 (GI'04), May 17-19, London, ON, Canada, pp. 89-96. N.P. Chandrasiri, I. Barakonyi, T. Naemura, M. Ishizuka, H. Harashima, "Internet Communication Using Real-time Facial Expression Analysis and Synthesis", In IEEE Multimedia, Vol.11, No. 3, July-Sept 2004, pp. 20-29. Awards Visiting researcher (Monbukagakusho scholarship), University of Tokyo, Japan, 2002 October-March Invited participant representing Hungary at the Student Leadership Conference in Chicago organized by Andersen Consulting, 1999 International Student Exchange Program scholarship, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America, 1998 Fall semester Zrinyi Miklos Foundation Award from the Zrinyi Miklos High School, 1995 Languages Hungarian - mother tongue English - fluent (working language since 2000, TOEFL exam) German - fluent (working language since 2002) Japanese - intermediate (Japanese Proficiency Test, 3rd level) Personal skills Hard-working and reliable Strong interpersonal and communication (written and oral) skills Organizational and planning skills Long experience in working in an international team Ability to work as team member or team leader Experience in remote working Hobbies piano basketball, badminton, scuba diving dancing traveling, photography Japanese culture