Curriculum Vitae

Education
2009 - today Visual Computing MSc at Vienna University of Technology
2005 - 2009 Computer Science BSc at Vienna University of Technology
2004 - 2005 Studies at the Vienna Conservatory, Jazz Drums
1997 - 2003 GRG3 Landstraße, 1030 Vienna
Secondary school with a focus on mathematics and science
1994 - 1997 Vienna Boys Choir
Private elementary and secondary school with intensive musical education and worldwide performances
Experience
2011 - today ToolsOnAir Broadcasting GmbH
Software Developer
Working on internal audio and video pipelines for the TV broadcast software suite.
2010 - 2012 Vienna University of Technology
Summer 2008 Intel Corporation, Santa Clara CA
Internship R&D Game Engine Technology Group
Implemented a node based hierarchical material system to be used with the Offset game engine
Summer 2007 Contribution to the COLLADA DOM open source library.
Maintaining Mac OS X project files, binary builds and testing
http://sourceforge.net/projects/collada-dom
2007 - 2008 Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna UT
Tutor for the Computer Graphics 1 and 2 course.
Fall 2006 Imagination Gmbh
Internship 3D developer
Delivered a CgToGLSL COLLADA conditioner and extended OpenSceneGraph's COLLADA reader for advanced effect profiles.
http://hfink.eu/collada/cgtoglsl
Conference Publications
2012 Teaching a Modern Graphics Pipeline Using a Shader-based Software Renderer (PDF)
Heinrich Fink, Thomas Weber, Michael Wimmer

Presented at Eurographics 2012 Education Track

Journal Publications
2012 Teaching a Modern Graphics Pipeline Using a Shader-based Software Renderer (PDF-preprint)
Heinrich Fink, Thomas Weber, Michael Wimmer

Published in Computers & Graphics

Awards
2011 Apple WWDC Student Scholarship 2011
2007 Apple WWDC Student Scholarship 2007
2006 Second Prize at Eurographics '06 Graphics meets Games with Cubophobia

Best Game 2006 at CG university course competition

2005 Best student conceptual design with mPod