Hlawitschka, Mario

Mario Hlawitschka received his BSc and MSc. in computer science (Diplom-Informatiker) from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany in 2004 and received a PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) from the University of Leipzig, Germany in 2008. He then became a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization (IDAV) at the University of California at Davis where his work focuses on scientific visualization with a focus on tensor data and medical data. He joined the Ferrara Laboratory in 2009 where his main focus is fast, hardware-accelerated ultrasound beam simulation using graphical processing units. He is currently a faculty member in Leipzig, Germany. hlawitschka@ucdavis.edu