Jiří Kosinka
Associate (Adjunct) Professor; group leader
- Room number: 490 (Bernoulliborg, building 5161)
- E-mail: j.kosinka (at) rug.nl
- Visiting and postal address
Research
- Geometric Modelling
- Computer Aided (Geometric) Design
- Computer Graphics
- Image Processing
Publications
Teaching
- Computer Graphics (2015/16 to 2025/26); Coordinator and lecturer
- Advanced Computer Graphics (2015/16 to 2025/26); Coordinator and lecturer
- Research Skills in Computing Science (2019/20 to 2025/26); (Second) lecturer, coordinator 2022-2025
- Vector Graphics (2020 to 2025, Honours College Tutorial); Lecturer/tutor
- Imperative Programming (2017/18 and 2018/19, CS+AI); Coordinator of TAs
- Introduction to Computing Science (2015/16 to 2018/19); Tutor
Student Projects
- Selected topics for student projects (BSc/MSc/Internships) I would be interested in supervising can be found here. Contact me if you are interested or if you have your own project ideas. You can have a look at student projects I have already co/supervised (not always fully up to date).
Journal Editor
- Member of the editorial board of Computer-Aided Design (Elsevier)
- Member of Editorial Board of The Visual Computer (Springer Nature)
- Associate Editor/Member of the editorial board of Graphical Models (Elsevier)
- Guest editor of two special issues of Computer Aided Geometric Design (Elsevier)
Conference Organisation
- Member of the GMP steering committee.
- Co-organiser of the 4th International Conference on Discrete Geometry and Mathematical Morphology (DGMM 2025) in Groningen, the Netherlands, 3-6 November 2025.
- Co-organiser of the first interdisciplinary Workshop & Hackathon on Computer Vision Technologies for the Built Environment; Groningen, 7-8 Novemeber 2024; see this flyer.
- Conference Co-Chair of 2023 SIAM Conference on Computational Geometric Design, part of the Geometry Summit 2023.
- Program Co-Chair of AniNex 2022 and 2023: The 4th/5th workshop on Next Generation Computer Animation Techniques, collocated with CASA 2022/2023.
- Program Co-Chair of the 2021 SIAM Conference on Computational Geometric Design; held jointly with SPM 2021.
- Program Co-Chair of Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP) 2019; part of the International Geometry Summit 2019.
- Poster Co-Chair at Eurographics 2018.
- Member of the Local Organizing Committee, Fast Forward and Website Chair of EuroVis 2016.
- IPC (International Programme Committee) member of the Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP) 2017-2026.
- IPC member of Computer Graphics International (CGI) 2023-2025.
- IPC member of Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP) 2012, 2014-2018, 2020-2026.
- IPC member of the Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM) 2018-2026.
- IPC member of Pacific Graphics 2018, 2020-2023, 2025.
- IPC member of the Eurographics Workshop 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR) 2018, 2019, 2021-2025.
- IPC member of the Computational Visual Media Conference (CVM) 2019, 2022, 2024-2026.
- IPC member of the International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA) 2024.
- IPC member of AniNex 2025.
Career History
- Since 05/2021: Leader of the Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics research group
- Since 04/2021: Associate Professor, Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
- 09/2015 - 03/2021: Assistant Professor, (Johann) Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
- 09/2014 - 08/2015: Senior Research Associate, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK & EPSRC Knowledge Transfer Fellow, Partner Company: International TechneGroup, Ltd. (formerly TranscenData), Swavesey, Cambridge, UK
- 09/2010 - 08/2014: Research Associate, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
- 10/2007 - 12/2009: Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre of Mathematics for Applications, University of Oslo, Norway
- 07/2006 - 06/2007: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Applied Geometry, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
Education
- 06/2006 PhD, 05/2002 MSc from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, the Czech Republic