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Jesper Bjerg Mosegaard
Born 18/10 - 1979

Langørvej 137
8381 Tilst
Denmark
Phone +45 87 36 05 04
Email: mail JesperMosegaard.dk

Main competences

Research experience within computer graphics, animation and simulation.
- Medical visualization and simulation, parallel computation, GPU programming, OpenGL, algorithms and data-structures in computer graphics, physics simulation, image manipulation and filtering, and game-engine architecture
Teaching experience at university level
Project management and applying for government funding.
Experienced software developer - both at a practical level as well as a university level lecturer.
- Software architecture, Patterns, OOA&D, Agile, RUP
- C++, Java, Python, Cg, GLSL, PHP (and many more, but programming-language is not really an issue)
Registered iPhone developer since 2.0 beta
Experienced in cross-disciplinary research and development - specifically combining computer science with medicine, aesthetics, and creative disciplines.
Quick to grasp complex concepts, algorithms and structures.
Good at working in a team
General theoretical and practical competences within many aspects of compute science and multimedia
Has arranged workshops for companies such as Bang & Olufsen and Lego Systems.

Work

01.04.08 - now: Senior R&D Scientist at the Alexandra Institute. Doing research, software development, project management, and establishing research and funding within computer graphics and scientific computing.
01.02.07 – 30.03.08: Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the Institute of Information and Media Studies, University of Aarhus. Doing research and teaching, responsible for education in programming and computer games.
01.08.06 – 31.01.07: Lecturer (Amanuensis) at the Institute of Information and Media Studies, University of Aarhus. Doing research and teaching, responsible for education in programming and computer games.

Education

(Computer Science courses)

01.08.03 - 31.07.06: PhD from the Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Thesis title "Cardiac Surgery Simulation - Graphics Hardware meets Congenital Heart Disease", PhD commitee: Dr. Mark Harris (Nvidia Ltd.), Professor Peter Johansen (DIKU), and Professor Mogens Nielsen (DAIMI).
26.06.01 - 19.06.03: MSc (Cand. Scient.) from the Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Grade 13 (A+), GPA: 4.0
01.09.98 - 25.06.01: Bachelor in Computer Science and Multimedia from the University of Aarhus, Denmark
01.07.05 - 01.06.98: Kolding Amts Gymnasium (High School)

Diploma and Awards

Received the IDA-IT (The Society of Danish Engineers) graduate diploma fall 2003 for "Outstanding execution of it-related thesis"
Nominated for masters thesis of the year (2003) in "Danish Society for Computer Science"
Oticon Scholarship of 100,000 kr (~ 20,000 US$) for masters thesis year (Aug.2002- Jul.2003)

Reviewing

Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 2008
Journal of Applied Biomechanics (JAB), 2008
ACM SIGGRAPH Tertiary reviewer for ACM SIGGRAPH 2007
SANDBOX Committee member 2007 (ACM SIGGRAPH VIDEOGAME SYMPOSIUM)

Publications

Dissertations

Cardiac Surgery Simulation - Graphics Hardware meets Congenital Heart Disease. Jesper Mosegaard. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark. (2006)
Realtime Cardiac Surgery Simulation. Jesper Mosegaard. Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark. (2003)

Full papers

The Visible Ear Simulator: A Public PC Application for GPU-Accelerated Haptic 3D Simulation of Ear Surgery Based on the Visible Ear Data. Mads S. Sørensen, Jesper Mosegaard and Peter Trier. Otology & Neurotology, 30(4):484-487. (2009)
Developing and Evaluating Virtual Cardiotomy for Preoperative Planning in Congenital Heart Disease. Thomas S. Sørensen, Philipp Beerbaum, Jesper Mosegaard and Gerald F. Greil. Studies in health technology and informatics, 142:340-345. (2009)
Exploring Parallel Algorithms for Volumetric Mass-Spring-Damper Models in CUDA. Allan Rasmusson, Jesper Mosegaard and Thomas S. Sørensen. Biomedical Simulation. (2008)
Virtual cardiotomy based on 3-D MRI for preoperative planning in congenital heart disease. Thomas Sørensen, Philipp Beerbaum, Jesper Mosegaard, Allan Rasmusson, Tobias Schaeffter, Conal Austin, Reza Razavi and Gerald Greil. Pediatric Radiology, 38(12):1314-1322. (2008)
Smooth haptic interaction from discontinuous simulation data.. Jesper Mosegaard, Bo S. Carstensen, Allan Rasmusson and Thomas S. Sørensen. Studies in health technology and informatics, 125:328-333. (2007)
An Introduction to GPU Accelerated Surgical Simulation. Thomas S. Sørensen and Jesper Mosegaard. In Third International Symposium, ISBMS 2006. (Harders, Matthias and Szekely, Gabor, Eds.) Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pages 93-104. (2006)
Haptic feedback for the GPU-based surgical simulator.. Thomas S. Sørensen and Jesper Mosegaard. Studies in health technology and informatics, 119:523-528. (2006)
Surgical simulation--a new tool to evaluate surgical incisions in congenital heart disease?. Thomas S. Sørensen, Gerald F. Greil, Ole K. Hansen and Jesper Mosegaard. Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, 5(5):536-539. (2006)
A GPU accelerated spring mass system for surgical simulation.. Jesper Mosegaard, Peder Herborg and Thomas S. Sørensen. Studies in health technology and informatics, 111:342-348. (2005)
Real-time Deformation of Detailed Geometry Based on Mappings to a Less Detailed Physical Simulation on the GPU. Jesper Mosegaard and Thomas S. Sørensen. In Proceedings of Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environment. Aalborg, Denmark. (Kjems, Erik and Blach, Roland, Eds.) Eurographics Association, pages 105-111. (2005)
GPU Accelerated Surgical Simulators for Complex Morphology. Jesper Mosegaard and Thomas S. Sørensen. In VR '05: Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Conference 2005 on Virtual Reality. Washington, DC, USA. IEEE Computer Society, pages 147-154, 323. (2005)
Teaching programming to liberal arts students: a narrative media approach. Peter B. Andersen, Jens Bennedsen, Steffen Brandorff, Michael E. Caspersen and Jesper Mosegaard. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 35(3):109-113. (2003)
A Framework for Narration and Learning in Educational Multimedia. Jesper Mosegaard and Jens Bennedsen. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2003. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. (Lassner, David and Mcnaught, Carmel, Eds.) AACE, pages 99-106. (2003)

Short papers, videos, exhibitions, and extended abstracts

A framework for shape matching in deformable image registration.. Karsten Ø. Noe, Jesper Mosegaard, Kari Tanderup and Thomas S. Sørensen. Studies in health technology and informatics, 132:333-335. (2008)
The visible ear surgery simulator.. Peter Trier, Karsten Ø. Noe, Mads S. Sørensen and Jesper Mosegaard. Studies in health technology and informatics, 132:523-525. (2008)
GPU Accelerated haptic 3-D simulation of ear surgery. A freeware application for pc based on the Visible Ear data. Peter Trier, Jesper Mosegaard and Mads S. Sørensen. In Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum.. (2008)
Virtual open heart surgery: obtaining models suitable for surgical simulation.. Thomas S. Sørensen, Jean Stawiaski and Jesper Mosegaard. Studies in health technology and informatics, 125:445-447. (2007)
Virtual Cardiotomy for Preoperative Planning. Thomas S. Sørensen, Jesper Mosegaard, Gerald F. Greil, Stephan Miller, Achim Seeger, Ole K. Hansen and Ludger Sieverding. Circulation, 115(9):e312+. (2007)
Virtual open heart surgery segmentation.. Jean Stawiaski, Jesper Mosegaard and Thomas S. Sørensen. Studies in health technology and informatics, 125:448-450. (2007)
Virtual open heart surgery: training complex surgical procedures in congenital heart disease. Thomas S. Sørensen and Jesper Mosegaard. In SIGGRAPH '06: ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Emerging technologies. New York, NY, USA. ACM. (2006)
Technical aspects of the GPU accelerated surgical simulator. Jesper Mosegaard and Thomas S. Sørensen. In SIGGRAPH '06: ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Sketches. New York, NY, USA. ACM, page 38. (2006)
Surgical planning in congenital heart disease by means of real-time medical visualisation and simulation. Thomas S. Sørensen and Jesper Mosegaard. In SIGGRAPH '05: ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Electronic Art and Animation Catalog. New York, NY, USA. ACM, page 295. (2005)
Preoperative Planning by Surgical Simulation on Patient-specific High-resolution Virtual Models. Thomas S. Sørensen, Jesper Mosegaard, Gerald Greil, Ole K. Hansen and Vibeke E. Hjortdal. In The Fourth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery., page 230. (2005)
Parameter optimisation for the behaviour of elastic models over time.. Jesper Mosegaard. Studies in health technology and informatics, 98:253-255. (2004)
LR-Spring Mass model for cardiac surgical simulation.. Jesper Mosegaard. Studies in health technology and informatics, 98:256-258. (2004)

Conference Participation

May 2008: Medical & Graphical Visionday, Copenhagen, Denmark, 29-30 May, 2008.
Aug 2007: MADALGO Summer School on DATA STREAM ALGORITHMS, August 20-23, 2007, Aarhus, Denmark.
May 2007: Graphical Visionday, Copenhagen, Denmmark, May 23, 2007.
Feb 2007: Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2007 (MMVR 15), Long Beach, USA, Feb. 6-9 2007. (Papers)
Sep 2006: the 36th Nordic Paediatric Cardiology Meeting, Aarhus, Denmark. Sep 14-16, 2006. (Demonstration of the heart simulator)
Aug 2006: The 33rd International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH, 30 July - 3 August, 2006. (Sketch + Exhibition)
Jun 2006: Visionday, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1-2, 2006 (Talk + Exhibition)
Oct 2005: Ninth Immersive Projection Technology Workshop together with the Eleventh Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments (IPT & EGVE Workshop 2005), Ålborg, Denmark. Oct. 6-7, 2005. (Paper)
Jan 2005: Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR13), Long Beach, USA. Jan. 26-29, 2005. (Paper)
Jan 2005: SummIT05, Aarhus, Denmark. Jan. 19-20, 2005. (Workshop and demonstration)
Jun 2004: Graphical Visionday 2004. Copenhagen, Denmark. Jun. 4, 2004.
May 2004: 3D Festival. Copenhagen, Denmark. May. 3-6, 2004.
Jan 2004: Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR12). Newport Beach, USA. Jan. 14-17, 2004. (Paper)
Jun 2003: ED-MEDIA World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications. Honolulu, Hawaii,.June 23-28, 2003. (Paper)
Jan 2003: Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR11). Newport Beach, USA. Jan 15-17, 2003 (Papers)
Jun 2002: Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE2002). Århus, Denmark. June 24-26 2002

Project experience (applications, management and consultancy)

2010-2012: "Massive Data - Processing, visualization, and interpretation", Project Manager, co-applicant and active in R&D, funded by the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, total budget of 11.7 mill DKK (8.1 mill DKK funded by application)
2010: "Shaders in Unity3D", consultancy and software development for Unity Studios, Denmark (100.000 DKK)
2010: "High quality rendering of soft shadows and materials in furniture", consultancy and software development for Intertisement, Denmark (100.000 DKK)
2009-2010: "Advanced computer graphics in Lego Digital Designer", consultancy and software development for Lego Systems A/S, Denmark
2009-2010: "Custom soft-tissue physics engine for MitraClip trainer", consultancy and Software development for Morphologica, MGHI, Hong Kong.
2009: "4D CellVision", Co-applicant, Funded by the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation (Højteknologifonden), total budget of 24 mill DKK.
2008: "Visual Interaction in Wind-turbine Repair", Co-applicant and primary writer, Funded by the ISIS II, total budget of 3.2 mill DKK. (1.6 mill DKK funded by application)
2008-2010: "Innogate - Innovation is the game", in management group and active in R&D, total budget of 9.6 mill kr. See http://www.innogate.dk
2008-2011: "Center for Digital Urban Living", in management group, project-manager, and active in R&D, total budget 43.5 mill DKK, responsible for a budget of 2.2 mill DKK. See http://www.digitalUrbanLiving.dk
2008-2009: "Virtual Ear drilling simulator - prototype development", funded by Oticon Foundation, co-applicant and supervisor, total budget of 300.000 DKK
2006: "Stabilizing the Cardiac Surgery Simulator", Co-applicant and active in R&D, funded by the Danish Heart Association, total budget of 225.000 DKK, (grant #05-10-B359-A657-22265)
2003-2006: "Medical Visualization and Simulation", Co-applicant and active in R&D, funded by the Danish Research Council's Program Commitee on ITResearch, 2.8 mill DKK in funding, (grant #2059-03-0004)
2003-2004: "Lingoland", lead-programmer responsible for three part time student programmers.

Supervision

26.08.2009: Rune S. Johansen, Automated Semi-Procedural Animation for Character Locomotion. (now at Unity Studios
28.11.2007: Bjarne Knudsen, "Physical based Character Animation for Interactive Appliations" with Peter Møller-Nielsen - now at Mjolner Informatics.
23.05.2007: Mads Erichsen and Lars Dahl, "Visualization of gant diagrams from a navision database" (Immersion Project)
16.02.2007: Peter Trier, "Virtual Ear Simulator" with Peter Møller-Nielsen - now at Alexandra Institute
31.03.2006: Søren Aaen Madsen, "Registration and Segmentation of muscular tissue in jaw using mutual information in CT and MR scannings" with Peter Møller-Nielsen
24.10.2005: Michael Bræmer Nielsen, "Real-time Fracture of Brittle Materials in a Game Setting" with Thomas Sangild Sørensen and Peter Møller-Nielsen - now at UniGate

Teaching

2008S: Experience Design, at the Digital Design education, University of Aarhus (35 students, 2 TA, undergraduate level)
2007F: Digital Representations at the Institute of Information and Media Studies (80 students, 3 TA, undergraduate level)
2007F: Computer Game Development at the Institute of Information and Media Studies + Multimedia Educations (44 students, graduate level)
2007F: Introduction to Design and Programming at the Institute of Information and Media Studies ( 7 students, graduate level)
2007S: System development and Programming at the Institute of Information and Media Studies (63 students, 3 TA, undergraduate level)
2006F: Computer Game Development at the Department of Computer Science (13 students, graduate level)
2006F: Game Basics at the Multimedia Educations (Graduate level)
2006F: Introduction to Programming at the Institute of Information and Media Studies (69 students, 2 TA, undergraduate level)
2005F: General Purpose Computation using the GPU (2. Quarter) course at the Department of Computer Science (33 students, graduate level)
2004F: General Purpose Computation using the GPU (2. Quarter) course at the Department of Computer Science (20 students, graduate level)
2004F: Surgical Simulation study group (1. Quarter) at the Department of Computer Science (6 students, graduate level)
2003F: Multimedia Programming (2. Quarter) at the Department of Computer Science (Graduate level)

2003F: Student Assistant in "Introduction to Programming" (1. Quarter) at the Department of Computer Science (Michael Edelgaard Caspersen)
2001F: Student Assistant in "Informationsprocessor" (Informationsprocesses) at the Institute of Information and mediascience. (Jens Bennedsen)
2001S: Student Assistant in "Programmering og systemudvikling" (Programming and systemdevelopment) at the Institute of Information and mediascience. (Claus Bjerre)
2000F: Student Assistant in "Værktøj i Computerarbejde" (Tools in computer work) at the Institute of Information and mediascience. (Steffen Brandorf)

Other Invited Talks and Lectures

22.01.2009: "Teknologikaravanen, Copenhagen", Presenting the Cardiac Surgery Simulator to His Royal Highness Prince Joachim, prince of Denmark.
12.06.2008: "Innovation and Education", Joint Annual Conference & General Assemblies 2008, The Interreg IVB North Sea Region Programme.
01.06.2006: "Cardiac Surgery Simulation Accelerated on Graphics Hardware" talk at the Medical Visionday, DTU, Copenhagen.
30.03.2006: Presenting the Cardiac Surgery Simulator to the Bulgarian President, Georgi Parvanov, during his visit to Katrinebjerg. This visit was a part of his official visit in Denmark. The president was introduced to Katrinebjerg, and subsequently saw two projects of which the Surgical Simulation Project was one.
03.02.2006: "Medical Visualization and Simulation: Virtual Surgery" Kick-off meeting for the Virtual Butcher Project (Danish Meat Research Institute),Copenhagen.
11.11.2005: "CAVI and Surgical Simulation" Third Brainstorm meeting, Medical Imaging and Computer Games, Helsinki, Finland.
02.11.2005- 03.11.2005: "Computer Graphics in CAVI" Practical experience with studie at the Faculty of Science for high-scool students. (Studiepraktik for 3G'ere)
06.05.2005: "How to use the capabilities of modern graphics processors for nongraphic problems", Parallel Programming course (Peter Møller-Nielsen), Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus.
25.02.2005: "Computer Graphics". Practical experience with studies at the Faculty of Science for high-school students, 2005. (Studiepraktik 2005)
16.02.2005: "Medical Simulation", Simulation course (Peter Bøgh Andersen), Institute of Information Science, University of Aarhus.
20.10.2004: "Surgery Simulation", MRI course (Steffen Ringgaard), Biomedical Engineering, University College of Aarhus.
28.04.2004: "Ph.d-project about Realtime Simulation of Surgical Procedures", "Datalærerforeningen og DAIMI's endagsarrangement i datalogi".
16.04.2004: "How to use the capabilities of modern graphics processors for nongraphic problems", Parallel Programming course (Peter Møller-Nielsen), Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus.
30.10.2003: "Cardiac Surgery Simulation", Marie Curie Training Site, Advanced Medical Imaging and Spatial Statistics, University of Aarhus.
23.10.2003: "3D Cardiac Modelling", Cardiac MRI course (Steffen Ringgaard), Biomedical Engineering, University College of Aarhus.

Relevant study-work

2002-2004: Partner in SoftWice I/S. Developed several multimedia applications for customers including SafeKnowledge protecting ppt files, LEGO Educational Division CD Product catalogue (Through AdverTeam), World Music Center multimedia CD, CopenhagenDC website and CMS.
2002S: Student-programmer and active part in the research of the Lingoland group under the FlexNet project. (half time job)
2001F: Student-programmer in the course "Multimedia programmering" (Multimedia Programming) at IT-VEST. (Jens Bennedsen)
Aug.2001: Student-programmer and active part in the research of the Lingoland group. (half time job)
1999-2000: Unpaid work in the editorial staff of daimiposten (a magazine for the Department of Computer Science in Aarhus)
1998-2000: Computerassistant at "Psykiatrisk Videncenter"

Selected media appearance

16.01.2009: Videnskab.dk, "4D-mikroskop skal forbedre kunstig befrugtning"
18.12.2009: Alexandra Nyt, "3D-visualisering af befrugtede ægs udvikling"
08.06.2007: Newspaper insert on Aarhus University (1.2 mill. copies), "Gør syge hjerter raske"
30.11.2006: Hjertenyt nr. 4 2006, "Kirurger træner på virtuelle hjerter" (Danish Heart Association)
31.07.2006: Boston Globe, "3D images let surgeons rehearse before they cut". (About the SIGGRAPH exhibition)
23.06.2006: Computerworld, "Sundheds-it: En virtuel hjerteoperation". (About my PhD project and the presentation at SIGGRAPH in Boston)
18.01.2006: TV2, TV2 Nyhederne: "Danske forskere på vej med verdensnyhed . De har tryllet computerskærmen om til et operationsbord". 2 min 30 sec. (Danish national TV channel, about the cardiac-project)
02.11.2005: AUH - Forskning og Klinik, Tema: Højteknologi, Aarhus Universitetshospital, 5. årgang nr. 2: "Modeller i 3D giver fælles sprog på hjerteområdet" (Models in 3D give a common language for heart surgeons)
29.01.2005: P1, Harddisken: "Det virtuelle 3D-hjerte". 10 min. (Danish national radio about my ph.d. project)
28.01.2005: DK4, "Danske erhvervssucceser - pervasive computing i Danmark". 30 min (interview 2 min). Repeated numerous times throughout 2005.
Nov.2004: IT-City Katrinebjerg 2004 Video. "Surgeons train cardiac surgery on virtual hearts".
Nov.2004: IT-City Katrinebjerg 2004 Magazine. "Surgeons train cardiac surgery on virtual hearts".
11.10.04: Campus nr. 3, University of Aarhus newspaper. "Computer-kirurgi" (Computer surgery)
22.01.04: Katrinebjerg newsletter jan 2004. "Et hjertebarn" (About my masters thesis and continuation into ph.d. project)
27.11.2003: ComputerWorld. "IDA-IT diploma, summer 2003"
Dec.2003: Katrinebjerg newsletter dec 2003. "Hjertet banker videre"
Oct.2003: it-vest NYT nr. 9. "Aloha Hawaii - om vejen til ferieparadiset" (It-vest newsletter on conference participation for Lingoland)