Tomasz Bednarz

prof_pic.jpg

Tomasz is the Director of Strategic Researcher Engagement at NVIDIA Corporation. In this capacity, he leads a team focused on engaging with leading researchers and premier research institutions, driving the adoption of cutting-edge NVIDIA software technologies in innovative, computationally intensive projects designed to tackle some of the world’s most complex scientific challenges.

Previously, he served as Director and Head of Visualisation at the Expanded Perception & Interaction Centre (EPICentre) within UNSW Art & Design and UNSW Computer Science and Engineering. Concurrently, he held the position of Research Team Leader at CSIRO’s Data61, where he led the Visual/Hybrid Analytics Team in the Software & Computational Systems research program. Additionally, he oversaw the Simulation and Modelling Cross-Cutting Capability for CSIRO’s Future Science and Technology.

Bednarz earned his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Physics and Applied Computer Science from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Poland. He completed a doctoral degree in Interdisciplinary Engineering Sciences at Kyushu University in Japan, and obtained an MBA in Technology from the AGSM Australian Graduate School of Management at UNSW, Australia.

His past roles reflect his conviction to a holistic approach to the wicked problems facing the collation, analytics, computing and display of big data. His approach is expansive and encompasses the use of novel and emerging technologies. Over his research career, he was involved in wide range of projects in area of computational physics, immersive visualisation, human-computer interaction, computational imaging, image analysis and processing, visualisation, accelerated computing, simulation, modelling, computer graphics, computer games, computational fluid dynamics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, multi-sensors assimilation, etc.

Currently serving as a SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Advisory Group (SACAG) Chair, and is voting director of ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee. Earlier, he was Conference Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 (SIGGRAPH conferences are the world’s largest, most influential annual meetings and exhibitions in computer graphics and interactive techniques). Over last ten years, selected volunteering roles include Computer Animation Festival Jury (SA2004), Courses Chair (SA2017), Member of ACM SIGGRAPH International Resources Committee (2013-2017), Virtual Augmented and Mixed Reality Jury (S2018), Reviewer, Panellist, Unified Jury Committee (2017), BoF Sessions Organiser, Submitter and Presenter. In years 2022-27 he is serving as SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Advisory Group (SACAG) Chair, contributing to the future of SIGGRAPH Asia conferences and connecting global research community.

News

Nov 16, 2025 Moderating panel “From Silicon to Surrealism: The Fusion of Art, AI and HPC” at the SC25 Conference, St. Louis (16-21 November).
Oct 20, 2025 Invited keynote speaker at the 2025 eResearch Australasia Conference, Brisbane Australia (20-24 October). My talk “Physical AI as the Next Frontier of Research and Industrial Digitization”.
Aug 14, 2025 Traditionally at the SIGGRAPH 2025 in Vancouver: (1) Immersive Visualisation for Science, Research, Art and Digital Twins Applications, (2) Generative AI for Graphics, Vision and 3D, (3) Demoscene Birds of a Father sessions.
Jun 10, 2025 See you at GTC Paris (at VivaTech 2025), Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, June 10-12, 2025.
Apr 18, 2025 Invited talk @ The Workshop on Sustainable AI for the Future Web @ The Web Conference 2025
Mar 17, 2025 Use this link to register to NVIDIA GTC 2025 conference and receive 25% discount or FREE virtual pass.
Meet me at these sessions:
Dec 03, 2024 See you in Tokyo at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2024. Meet me at Immersive Visualisation for Science, Research, Art and Digital Twins Applications, Generative AI for Graphics, Vision and 3D and Future of Hybrid Society: How Digital Twin and XR Will Shape Our Society BoF sessions.