DI Dr. Markus Kommenda
Function
Business Development
Center
Digital Safety & Security
Competence Unit
Head of Center - DSS
Address
Giefinggasse 4, 1210 Vienna
Career
Field: 3D Vision and Modelling
Main Research: Computer Vision, Multimedia Information Extraction, Video Analytics
Experience:
Markus Kommenda has more than 30 years of experience in various positions connected to ICT research. After his studies in Electrical Engineering and in Computer Science he was Research Assistant at the Vienna University of Technology, where he also received his PhD. He was a regular guest researcher at the Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications (CNET) in Lannion, France, and later became Scientific Advisor for France Télécom CNET. From 1994 to 1996 he served as the national contact point for the EU R&D programmes in the ICT area. From 1996 to 1999 he worked for Kapsch, an Austrian telecom equipment manufacturer, where he led research in the area of speech processing. Since 1997 he had been in charge of building up the Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.) which he led since its foundation until 2008. In 2009 he joined the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology where he headed the Visual Surveillance and Insight Business Unit from 2010 to 2017. Currently he is in charge of Business Development within the Center for Digital Safety and Security.
- 2010-2017: Head of Business Unit
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH / Vienna, Austria - 2008-2009: Senior Consultant
eutema Technology Management GmbH / Vienna, Austria - 1999-2008: Managing Director
FTW Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien GmbH / Vienna, Austria - 1996-1999: Head of Group Speech R&D
Kapsch AG / Vienna, Austria - 1994-1996: National Contact Point
BIT Büro für internationale Forschungs- und Technologiekkoperation / Vienna, Austria - 1994-1994: Scientific Advisor
France Télécom CNET / Lannion, France - 1991-now: Lecturer
Vienna University of Technology / Vienna, Austria - 1983-1994: Assistant
Vienna University of Technology / Vienna, Austria - 2017-now: Business Development
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH / Vienna, Austria
- 1987: Plansee-Preis
- 2017: Living Standards Award
Publications
- Key Technologies for Enhancing Security and User Statisfaction at Airports
Author(s): M. Kommenda, A. Kriechbaum, B. Micusik, C. Beleznai, M. Rauter, R. Pflugfelder
Conference 8th Future Security, Berlin, Germany
Proceedings Prof.Dr.Dr. Michael Lauster; Proceedings 8th Future Security, Security Research Conference. Berlin, September 17-19, 2013; pp. 248 - 257 - Intelligent Vision Systems: Coping with Abundant Video Data
Author(s): M. Kommenda
Conference International Workshop on Big Data, Seoul, Korea
Proceedings Hanseok Ko; 2016 International Workshop on Big Data; p. 10 - FastPass and MobilePass, two European research projects for next generation border control systems
Author(s): B. Strobl, M. Clabian, A. Kriechbaum, M. Kommenda, M. Rauter, St. Veigl
Conference PSC Europe Forum Conference, Bucharest, Romania
- Ein- und Ausgabe von Sprache (2012)
Vienna University of Technology - Fachvertiefung Telekommunikation (2016)
Vienna University of Technolgy
Further Information
- Publications AIT publications database
- CV as pdf