Prof. Dr. Sören Pirk
Contact
Room: EG.013
E-Mail: sp@informatik.uni-kiel.de
Tel: +49 431-880-7064
Social Media: LinkedIn, GoogleScholar
Research Interests
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Generative AI and Synthetic Data
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Multi-Modal and Time-variant Data Streams
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Agent-centric Representations
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Environmental Modeling and Physical Simulations
Publications
A list of my publications can be found here: link
Professional Service
Technical Program Chair
ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation: 2022, link
Associate Editor
Workshop Organizer
Embodied AI Workshop, CVPR 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025: link
ACM SIGGRAPH: 2024, 2025
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS): 2019
Computational Visual Media Conference (CVM): 2020, 2019, 2018
Eurographics: 2025, 2020 (Short Papers), 2019 (Short Papers), 2017
Web3D Conference: 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010
Committee Member
Reviewer
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML): 2021, 2020
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR): 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
International Conference on Representation Learning (ICLR): 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV): 2024, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019IEEE/RSJ
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): 2023, 2020, 2019
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS): 2024, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
ACM SIGGRAPH: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2012
Transactions on Graphics (TOG): 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2017, 2016, 2013
Eurographics (EG): 2023, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF): 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014
Pacific Graphics (PG): 2024, 2023, 2020, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics (TVCG): 2018, 2017, 2014, 2013
Computers & Graphics: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012
Short Biography
Sören is a Professor of Computer Science at the Christian-Albrechts-University (CAU) in Kiel, Germany, where he leads the Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence (VCAI) group. Prior to joining the Faculty of Engineering at CAU, he was a Senior Research Scientist and manager at Adobe Research, a Software Engineer in the Google AI (Robotics at Google) team and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Geometry Lab of the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, supported by the MPC-VCC and the SAIL-Toyota Center for AI Research. Sören received his PhD from the University of Konstanz (Visual Computing Lab), Germany.
Short CV
2023
Professor of Computer Science (W3), University of Kiel, Germany
Head of Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence group, director at the department of computer science.
2022
Senior Research Scientist and Manager, Adobe Research, USA
Research on Visual Computing and Machine Learning.
2017
AI Researcher and Software Engineer, Google AI (Robotics at Google), USA
Research on Machine Learning, Robotics, and Computer Vision.
Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, School of Engineering, USA
Head of the Geometric Modeling Group at the Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication.
2015
2014
Researcher and Software Engineer, Esri R&D Center Zurich, Switzerland
Research and development for large-scale geo information systems.
2013
2013
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Visual Computing, University of Konstanz, Germany
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Lab for Visual Computing.
Ph.D. of the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, Germany
Dr.rer.nat. of the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz.
2012
2007
2007
Research visits at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), China
Academic projects and studies toward procedural modeling and geometric representations.
Research visit at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Academic studies toward real-time rendering and augmented reality in the Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HitLab).
Dipl.-Ing. (FH), Computer Science, Germany
University of Applied Sciences Emden.
