About - Johannes Novotny

I am currently a Senior Research Engineer at the VRVis Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung Forschungs-GmbH, one of Austria’s 25 Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies (COMET). As part of the Biomedical Image Informatics group, I am following my research interests in the improvement of medical image analysis through a fusion of novel rendering styles with machine-learning methods and immersive output devices.

I obtained my PhD. degree in David H. Laidlaw’s Visualization Research Lab (VRL) at Brown University in 2020, with my work focusing on “Using Virtual Reality Effectively in Scientific Data Exploration - Perception, Usability and Design in Immersive Displays”.

Before my research work at Brown University, I worked as a research scholar at the UC Davis VIDi group to develop remote real-time volume rendering applications. I hold an M.S. degree in visual computing and a BSc. degree in medical computer science from the Vienna University of Technology.