Biography
Dr. Sandor has left NAIST on 31 December 2018 to work for the City University of Hong Kong, School of Creative Media. His new laboratory webpage can be found at: https://xr-lab.org
Dr. Christian Sandor is an Associate Professor at one of Japan’s most prestigious research universities, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), where he is co-directing the Interactive Media Design Lab together with Professor Hirokazu Kato. Since 2000, his foremost research interest is Augmented Reality, as he believes that it will have a profound impact on the future of mankind.
In 2005, he obtained a doctorate in Computer Science from the Technische Universität München, Germany under the supervision of Prof. Gudrun Klinker and Prof. Steven Feiner. He decided to explore the research world in the spirit of Alexander von Humboldt and has lived outside of Germany ever since to work with leading research groups at institutions including: Columbia University (New York, USA), Canon’s Leading-Edge Technology Research Headquarters (Tokyo, Japan), Graz University of Technology (Austria), University of Stuttgart (Germany), and Tohoku University (Japan).
Before joining NAIST, he directed the Magic Vision Lab (http://www.magicvisionlab.com). Together with his students, he won awards at the premier Augmented Reality conference, IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (IEEE ISMAR): best demo (2011, 2016) and best poster honourable mention (2012, 2013). He has presented several keynotes and has acquired 2 million USD funding; in 2012, Magic Vision Lab was the first, and still only, Australian lab to be awarded in Samsung’s Global Research Outreach Program. In 2014, he received a Google Faculty Award for creating an Augmented Reality X-Ray system for Google Glass.
He serves as an editorial board member for Computers & Graphics (Elsevier) and IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications and as a steering committee member for ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction and IEEE ISMAR. He has been program chair for numerous conferences, including IEEE ISMAR and SIGGRAPH Asia Symposium On Mobile Graphics And Interactive Applications.
email: sandor@is.naist.jp