| Share |
|
| Selected Projects and Blog articles |
|
| Google Developer Advocate - 2014 to 2023 |
|
I worked for Google as a Developer Advocate from 2014 to 2023. My work involved educating developers about new technologies, and also to advocate for developers within Google, ensuring developers have the right tools and information to support their work. I had to quickly understand new developer products, work on sample code and documentation, and give live presentations as well as record videos and publish blog posts. I also had to work with large engineering teams, product management, marketing, and legal to coordinate product announcements.
Major blog post announcements: |
| Qualcomm Research Silicon Valley - 2010 to 2014 |
| I was previously working at Qualcomm Research Silicon Valley in Santa Clara, California (formerly known as BARD - Bay Area R&D). I did work on concurrency, multi-core, and heterogeneous computing research for mobile devices. The last project I worked on was called MARE and allows developers to more easily exploit concurrency on their mobile devices. MARE is available for public download at the QDevNet site. Previously, the team worked on web browser optimizations, and we implemented our own prototype web browser from scratch, called Zoomm. Most of my research work was done on Android devices based on Snapdragon processors, using the Android Native Development Kit (NDK), and implemented in C++. |
| WorldViz - 2007 to 2010 |
|
I was previously Development Manager at WorldViz in Santa Barbara, California. I worked on the development of the Vizard toolkit, the PPT optical tracking system, and the design and implementation of many large HMD and CAVE systems. I developed the low level firmware and synchronization technology of the PPT-H and PPT-E camera systems, which run an embedded real-time operating system to process camera images at 640x480 at 180 fps. I also designed and implemented the software for one of the largest VR systems in the world, which supported 4 users in a Motion Analysis mocap system, all wearing wide field of view head mounted displays from Sensics, combined with a 4 wall CAVE system from MechDyne. It was truly one of the most awe inspiring and realistic virtual reality systems I have ever built and used. I wrote a short blog post about it. |
| Wearable Computer Lab - University of South Australia - 1998 to 2007 |
|
I was formerly a Senior Lecturer and researcher at the School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia. I was the Co-Director of the Wearable Computer Lab, where we developed new technologies for augmented reality, 3D user interfaces, and mobile computers. I taught courses in Operating Systems and Computer Graphics. My previous research papers are available on my publications page, and my PhD thesis is also available for reading. I worked on a number of projects, with my main project being the Tinmith mobile outdoor augmented reality system.
I have graduated three PhD students and also numerous undergraduate students: Ben Avery, Ross Smith, Aaron Stafford . For more information about my academic work, please see my publications page which has PDFs of all my research papers. |
| Contact Details | ||
|
If you need to get in touch with me, my contact details are: |
||
| Name | Wayne Piekarski (PhD) | |
| Social Networks | Twitter @waynepiekarski - LinkedIn - GitHub | |
| Location | San Jose, California, USA | |
| wayne AT tinmith.net | ||
| Web | https://www.waynepiekarski.net | |
| Resume / CV | Short CV / Expanded Academic CV | |
| Share |
|
Google Developer Advocate 2014-2023
X-Plane plugins and apps for flight simulation
IoT water meter monitoring
IoT computer vision monitoring
Tiny and cheap offline Wikipedia project 2017
Outdoor augmented reality research
Tinmith 1998-2007
Outdoor augmented reality 3D modelling
Tinmith 1998-2007
Outdoor augmented reality gaming
ARQuake 1999-2007
Scanned physical objects outdoors
Hand of God 3D 2006
|
Google Developer Advocate 2014-2023 X-Plane plugins and apps for flight simulation IoT water meter monitoring IoT computer vision monitoring Tiny and cheap offline Wikipedia project 2017 Outdoor augmented reality research Tinmith 1998-2007 Outdoor augmented reality 3D modelling Tinmith 1998-2007 Outdoor augmented reality gaming ARQuake 1999-2007 Scanned physical objects outdoors Hand of God 3D 2006 |
|
|
Contact Wayne Piekarski via email wayne AT tinmith.net for more information |
Last Updated 2024
|