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General Information
Full Name | Rene Winchenbach |
Date of Birth | 11th of April, 1991 |
Languages | German, English |
Education
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2022 PhD
Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany - summa cum laude
- PhD Supervisor - Prof. Dr. Andreas Kolb
- Spatially Adaptive Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
- Cummulative Dissertation
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2018 Master of Science
Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany - Final Thesis topic - Framework for the effective implementation of fluid simulations on GPUs
- {"Final Grade"=>"1.0 (with distinction)"}
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2015 Bachelor of Science
Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany - Final Thesis topic - Efficient GPU-based Implementation of a Pressure Solver for Incompressible SPH-Fluid Simulations
- {"Final Grade"=>"1.2 (with distinction)"}
Experience
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2022-2025 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Scientific Researcher)
Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany - Machine Learning for Fluid Simulations
- Focus on machine learning methods for fluid simulations
- Continuous Convolutions and Graph Neural Networks
- Development of differentiable fluid solvers
- Machine Learning for Fluid Simulations
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2019-2022 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Scientific Researcher)
Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany - Research on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)
- Focus on adaptive SPH methods
- Boundary handling and fluid-structure interaction
- Research on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)
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2014-2018 Student Assistant (doing research)
Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany - Research on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)
- Focus on GPU-based implementations
- Development of a pressure solver for incompressible SPH
- Research on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)
Open Source Projects
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2022-now diffSPH
- A fully differentiable Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics framework for fluid simulations, built on PyTorch.
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2017-2022 openMaelstrom
- A framework for the efficient implementation of fluid simulations on GPUs, focusing on spatially adaptive SPH.
Honors and Awards
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2018 - Krombacher IT Preis
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2019 - GI/GDV Masters Thesis Award
- Honorable Mention at the VMV Conference
Academic Interests
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Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
- Spatial Adaptivity
- Fluid-Structure Interaction
- Analytic Models
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Machine Learning
- Differentiable Solvers
- Continuous Convolutions
- Benchmarking and Validation
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Rendering and Visualization
- Analytic Models
- Fluid Simulation Visualization
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Cycling, Running, etc.