Short CV

Dr. Tamás Várady, DSc, PhD

Professor

Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology,
University of Technology and Economics, Budapest

E-mail: varady@iit.bme.hu
Tel: +36-1-4632467, Mobile: +36-20-9360255

DEGREES:

• DSc – Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Budapest, 1999
     Thesis: Vertex blending surfaces in Computer Aided Geometric Design
• PhD (candidate's degree) in Computer Science, HAS, Budapest, 1986
     Thesis: Integration of free-form surfaces into a volumetric modeler
• MSc in Information Theory and Communication, Technical University, Budapest, 1978
• Diploma in Electrical Engineering, Technical University, Budapest, 1976

RESEARCH INTEREST:

• Computer aided geometric design; free-form curves; general topology free-form surfaces, n-sided patches;
• surface intersections, blends; digital shape reconstruction, measured data processing, automatic segmentation,
• curve and surface fitting, constraints; fairing algorithms.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

• Shape Extraction Technologies, Ltd., (ShapEx), Budapest

Managing Director

2008 - present

• Geomagic Inc., North Carolina, USA / Geomagic Hungary LLC, Budapest

Chief Technology Advisor	2003 - 2010
Managing Director	2003 - 2008

• Arizona State University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Visiting Professor

1992 - 1993

• CADMUS Consulting and Development Ltd., Budapest

Founder, President

1990 - 2003

• Cambridge University, UK, Engineering Department

Visiting Research Fellow

1983 - 1984

• Computer and Automation Research Institute (CARI)

Head of Geometric Modeling Laboratory	1990 - 2003
Head of Department, CAD in Mechanical Engineering	1984 - 1990
Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow	1976 - 2003

SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS:

• John A. Gregory Award, 2017, http://www.geometric-modelling.org/
• Solid Modelling Association - SMA Pioneer, 2016, http://solidmodeling.org/awards/sma-pioneers/sma-pioneers-2016/
• Dreamers of Dreams, Millennium Exhibition, Computer-Science/Information Technology (2002)
• Fulbright Scholarship, Computer Science Dept., Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (1997)
• CARI - Institute Award (1980, 1983, 1988, 1990, 1997), HAS - Young Researchers' Award (1985)
• British Council Scholarship, Engineering Dept. (CAE Group), Cambridge University, England (1982)

MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES:

Member of editorial boards of international journals and many (25+) conference committees, including:

• Computer Aided Design Journal (Elsevier) (1992 - 2005)
• Computer Aided Geometric Design (Elsevier) (2001 -)

PUBLICATIONS:

• 160+ publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Independent citations: 3500++ (impact factor: 40+).
• Invited/keynote speaker at many international geometric modeling conferences.
• Editor of a special issue “Reverse Engineering of Geometric Models” in the Computer Aided Design Journal: (1997)

Google Scholar Citations Varady

OTHER SKILLS:

• Teaching experience in geometric modeling and computer science; supervisor of PhD students (12 successful degrees in the last 18 years)
• 25+ years leadership experience (R & D laboratories, hi-tech software engineering)
• 20+ years business experience in developing leading edge software technology (product development, contract work, R & D grants – mainly for companies in the EU and the USA)

PATENT:

Methods, apparatus and computer program products that model three-dimensional surface structures,
application filed on June 23, 2006; U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 11/426,094,
assigned on Aug 23, 2011 (US 8,004,517),Geomagic, Inc., (co-authors: H. Edelsbrunner, M. Facello, T. Gloth, Zs. Terek, T. Varady)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Most cited papers:

Várady, T ; Martin, RR ; Cox, J

Reverse engineering of geometric models - an introduction

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN 29 : 4, pp. 255-268, (1997)

Citations: 1782

Benkő, P ; Martin, RR ; Várady, T

Algorithms for reverse engineering boundary representation models

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN 33 : 11, pp. 839-851, (2001)

Citations: 283

Benkő, P ; Kós, G ; Várady, T ; Andor, L ; Martin, R R

Constrained fitting in reverse engineering

COMPUTER AIDED GEOMETRIC DESIGN 19, pp. 173-205, (2002)

Citations: 253

Weiss, V ; Andor, L ; Renner, G ; Várady, T

Advanced surface fitting techniques

COMPUTER AIDED GEOMETRIC DESIGN 19, pp. 19-42, (2002)

Citations: 231

Vida, J ; Martin, RR ; Várady, T

A survey of blending methods that use parametric surfaces

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN 26 : 5, pp. 341-365, (1994)

Citations: 190

Benkő, P ; Várady, T

Segmentation methods for smooth point regions of conventional engineering objects

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN 36 pp. 511-523, (2004)

Citations: 128

T. Varady ; M. A. Facello ; Z., Terek

Automatic extraction of surface structures in digital shape reconstruction

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN 39 : 5, pp. 379-388, (2007)

Citations: 121

T. Varady, R. R. Martin

Reverse Engineering, Chapter 26,

Handbook of Computer Aided Design, North Holland, pp. 651-6812002,

Citations: 114

Kós, G ; Martin, R R ; Várady, T

Methods to recover constant radius rolling ball blends in reverse engineering

COMPUTER AIDED GEOMETRIC DESIGN 17 : 2, pp. 127-160, (2000)

Citations: 82

Várady, T

Overlap patches: a new scheme for interpolating curve networks with n-sided regions

COMPUTER AIDED GEOMETRIC DESIGN 8 : 1, pp. 7-27, (1991)

Citations: 72

Recent papers:

T. Várady; P. Salvi; M. Vaitkus; Á. Sipos

Multi-sided Bézier surfaces over curved, multi-connected domains

COMPUTER AIDED GEOMETRIC DESIGN 78 p. Paper: 101828 (2020)

I. Kovács; T. Várady

Constrained fitting with free-form curves and surfaces

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN 122 p. Paper: 102816 (2020)

I. Kovács; T. Várady

P-Bézier and P-Bspline curves – new representations with proximity control

COMPUTER AIDED GEOMETRIC DESIGN 62, pp. 117-132, (2018)

M. Vaitkus; T. Várady

Parameterizing and extending trimmed regions for tensor-product surface fitting

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN 104, pp. 125-140, (2018).

Salvi; T. Várady

Multi-sided Bézier surfaces over concave polygonal domains

COMPUTERS & GRAPHICS-UK 74, pp. 56-65, (2018)

T. Várady; P. Salvi; I. Kovács

Enhancement of a multi-sided Bézier surface representation

COMPUTER AIDED GEOMETRIC DESIGN 55, pp. 69-83, (2017)

T. Várady; P. Salvi; Gy. Karikó

A Multi-sided Bézier Patch with a Simple Control Structure

COMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM 35 : 2, pp. 307-317, (2016)

I. Kovács; T. Várady; P. Salvi

Applying geometric constraints for perfecting CAD models in reverse engineering

GRAPHICAL MODELS 82, pp. 44-57, (2015)

P. Salvi; T. Várady; A. Rockwood

Multi-sided Transfinite Surfaces Based on Ribbons

COMPUTER AIDED GEOMETRIC DESIGN 31 : 9, pp. 613-630, (2014)