Katja Bühler

Dr. Katja Bühler is Scientific Director of the VRVis GmbH Vienna, a not-for-profit research center for Visual Computing founded in 2000 with the goal of implementing technology transfer between scientific and industrial communities. Her academic background is in Mathematics (Dipl.math. KIT, Germany) and Computer Science (Dr. techn., TU Wien, Austria). She joint VRVis in 2002 where she has gained considerable experience over the years in developing applied research strategies and realizing innovative solution in close collaboration with industry and science. Her own research is dedicated to developing highly efficient methods to provide access to the information encoded in imaging and other related big data. She is realizing this vision together with her research group that is unifying expertise in image analysis, reliable artificial intelligence, data mining, visualization and HCI to create novel intelligent and human-centered solutions for various application fields. She was recently invited to join the board of the Association for the Promotion of Digital Humanism in Vienna, which reflects her commitment to human-centered digitization strategies.