Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Peter Wild
Full Name
1982
Year of Birth
Austrian
Nationality
Experience
Feb 2022 - Present
Head of Division Software Development
Amt der Salzburger Landesregierung, Salzburg, Austria
Aug 2018 - Jan 2022
Manager R&D Software Development
Tecan Austria GmbH, Grödig, Austria
Leading and steering the software team of developers, test engineers, software application specialists and digital imaging experts developing software solutions for Tecan’s detection & automation product portfolio for life science laboratories; Accompanying R&D projects during the entire stage gate process.
Feb 2017 - Jul 2018
Project Manager
Tecan Austria GmbH, Grödig, Austria
Planning, executing and monitoring projects targeting the development of software controlling laboratory detection instruments for biopharma, forensics, and clinical diagnostics; Applied research in image processing for medical engineering focusing on cell segmentation and analysis.
Sep 2015 - Jan 2017
Scientist
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna, Austria
Work in different national and international research projects on topics related to border control and security (document inspection, biometrics); Research in high-performance image processing focusing on computational imaging and machine learning.
Sep 2013 - Sep 2015
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
University of Reading, School of Systems Engineering, Reading, UK
Work in a research team focusing on next-generation face-and-iris biometrics & counter-spoofing;
Management and technical coordination of traveller-identification & monitoring workpackage for FastPass, a research project on a harmonized, modular reference system for all European automated border crossing points within a consortium of 27 European partners (EC FP-7);
Lecturing: Visual Intelligence Module (lecture)
Jan 2013 - Sep 2013
Postdoc Researcher (Part time)
University of Salzburg, Department of Computer Sciences, Salzburg, Austria
Research on ageing aspects in hand biometrics, iris compression and segmentation in surveillance environments;
Graduate-level lecturing on: WWW and Multimedia (lecture and proseminar), Advanced Databases (lecture and proseminar).
Sep 1999 - Sep 2013
Software & Web Developer (Freelance)
Wildnet, Salzburg, Austria
Software development and IT-consulting in the areas of databases and web development (including seminar management tool “Prometheus” and e-learning platform “etrain.at”).
Mar 2009 - May 2013
External Lecturer (Part time)
Fachhochschule Salzburg - Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Salzburg, Austria
Lecturing of undergraduate and graduate-level students within the curriculum IT & System-management: Software engineering (lecture and lab), Software notations (lab), Distributed and autonomous software systems (lab); Supervision of master thesis projects.
Mar 2001 - Mar 2013
External Lecturer (Freelancer)
Pädagogische Hochschule Salzburg - Salzburg University of Education, Salzburg, Austria
Lecturing of secondary-level teachers for lifelong learning on IT topics: Webapplications with PHP (seminar), SQL and XML with SQL-Server, Access and MySQL (seminar), Internet-Databases and XML (course), Content development with complex authoring tools (seminar), XML (course), Advanced Flash (course), Flash (course), .NET-Programming (seminar), Teaching Database Concepts (seminar) and Active Server Pages (seminar).
Dec 2008 - Dec 2012
Scientific Assistant
University of Salzburg, Department of Computer Sciences, Salzburg, Austria
Research in PhD project “BioSurveillance” on combining iris and face biometrics, funded by the Austrian FIT-IT/FFG;
Co-authoring of a Springer book on iris recognition;
Undergraduate and graduate-level lecturing: WWW and Multimedia (lecture and proseminar), Advanced Databases (lecture and proseminar), Databases (proseminar).
Apr 2007 - Feb 2008
Research Assistant (Part time)
University of Salzburg, Department of Computer Sciences, Salzburg, Austria
Development and maintenance of an online course subscription system.
Oct 2005 - Jun 2008
Database Administrator and System Engineer (Part time)
Pädagogische Hochschule Salzburg - Salzburg University of Education, Salzburg, Austria
Research on Master’s thesis project on hand and footprint biometrics using a flatbed scanner as sensor, funded by the Austrian Scientific Fund FWF.
Oct 2003 - Jul 2007
Tutor (Part time)
University of Salzburg, Department of Computer Sciences, Salzburg, Austria
Teaching assistance for courses held by the Software Research Lab headed by Prof. Pree and by the Mathematical Informatics Group headed by of Prof. Pfalzgraf.
Education
Dec 2012
Dr.techn.
Applied Computer Science (PhD Program), University of Salzburg, Austria. Passed with highest distinction (sub auspiciis praesidentis).
Mar 2008
Dipl.-Ing.
Applied Computer Science (Master’s Program), University of Salzburg, Austria. Passed with highest distinction.
Feb 2005
Bakk.techn.
Applied Computer Science (Bachelor’s Program), University of Salzburg, Austria. Passed with highest distinction.
Languages
Skills
Awards
2014
Best Poster Award Int'l Joint Conf. on Biometrics
2013
Promotion sub auspiciis praesidentis
Appreciation Award by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science & Research
1st price European Biometrics Industry Award
Nominated candidate representing Univ. of Salzburg for GI Dissertation Price 2012
2011
Best Poster Award Int'l Joint Conf. on Biometrics
2001
Ericsson Mobile Vision Award: 1st price category E-learning
32nd Austrian Math Olympics: 2nd price of the region competition (Austria-West)
1998
29th Austrian Math Olympics: 2nd price of the federal competition (Salzburg)
Publications
- 1 Monograph
- 6 Journal Papers
- 33 Conference Papers
- 3 Book chapters
- 1 Technical Report
- 2 Theses
Rank #1:
Iris Recognition: From Segmentation to Template Security
C. Rathgeb, A. Uhl, and P. Wild.
Volume 59 of Advances in Information Security. Springer, New York, 2012. ISBN: 978-1461455707.
Rank #2:
Robust multimodal face and fingerprint fusion in the presence of spoofing attacks.
P. Wild, P. Radu, L. Chen and J. Ferryman.
Pattern Recognition, 50:17-25, February 2016. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.patcog.2015.08.007
Rank #3:
Weighted Adaptive Hough and Ellipsopolar Transforms for Real-time Iris Segmentation.
A. Uhl and P. Wild.
In Proc. 5th Int’l Conference on Biometrics (ICB’12), pages 283-290, New Delhi, India, March 29-April 1, 2012. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICB.2012.6199821
Contact
- www.peterwild.net
- pw [at] peterwild.net
