Frank Van Reeth is Professor of computer science at Hasselt University in Diepenbeek, Belgium since 1993. He is deputy managing director of the Expertise centre for Digital Media (EDM), a research institute of about 80 people at Hasselt University. He obtained a MS in computer science in 1987 at the Free University of Brussels and a PhD in computer science at Limburgs University Centre (now Hasselt University) in 1993.

His research interests include computer graphics, computer animation, networked virtual environments, human computer interaction and multimedia technology. He published over 120 scientific papers in the above domains. He is frequent member of the Program Committee of international conferences such as "IEEE Virtual Reality", "Computer Graphics International" and "Computer Animation".

Frank Van Reeth has been active in the R&D as well as project management in more then 10 European research projects and has been involved in numerous bilateral industrial research projects. He has served on many review committees (European Commission, IWT (Flanders), EPSRC,…) evaluating research proposals in the above domains. Frank Van Reeth is cofounder of 5 spin-off companies.

Website: http://www.edm.uhasselt.be/people/show/frank.van_reeth

Email: frank.vanreeth AT uhasselt.be