MSc. Sylva Girtelschmid
Institut für Graphische und Parallele Datenverarbeitung
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
Altenberger Strasse 69
A-4040 Linz
Room: T644
Phone: +43-732-2468-8885
Fax: +43-732-2468-9496
Email: sgirtel AT gup.jku.at
Current work
I am currently working in collaboration with a Blattfisch ecological company to analyze the causes of water pollution leading to decreased aquatic population in the Trattnach river.
Current Lectures
Previous Lectures
Past Projects / Employment
- 2009 - EGEE Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
- Tutoring in Grid Computing
- 2006-2008 - gEclipse - Access the power of the Grid
- Leadership of the Developer and Collaboration work packages
- Integration of scientific visualization tooling, Eclipse committer
- 2005-2006 - Alion Science and Technology, Norfolk, VA
- Design and development of communicator for legacy protocols to allow seamless integration of simulation software used for military exercises
- 2003-2005 - Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, Norfolk, VA
- Development on Wound Debridement Medical Simulator involving soft-tissue deformation and haptics
- 2003 - Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
- Tutoring and help session assistance to undergraduate math students
- 2003 - Lions Child Study Center, Norfolk, VA
- Assistance in educating children in acquiring computer skills
- 2002 - NATO SACLANT, Norfolk, VA
- Development of management applications for Peacetime Establishment, Crises Establishment and personnel databases
Publications
- 2008 - Sylva Girtelschmid, Martin Polak, Thomas Köckerbauer, "Enabling Scientific Visualisation with an Integrated Grid Tool g-Eclipse", in proceedings MIPRO 2008
- 2005 - Lee A. Belfore, Jessica R. Crouch, Yuzhong Shen, Sylva Girtelschmid, "A Software Framework for Surgical Simulation Virtual Environments", published in Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2005
- 2005 - J. Seevinck, M. W. Scerbo, L. A. Belfore, L. J. Weireter, J. R. Crouch, Y. Shen, F. D. McKenzie, H. M. Garcia, S. Girtelschmid, E. BAydogan, E. A. Schmidt, "A Simulation-Based Training System for Surgical Wound Debridement", published in Studies in Health Technology & Informatics 2005
Schools
- 2003-2005 - Master studies at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
- Degree awarded: August 2005 - Mater of Science in Modeling and Simulation
- Thesis: Fine-tuning of mass-spring model properties for simulating realistic soft body deformation
- 2001-2003 - Bachelor studies at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
- Degree awarded: May 2003 - Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Minor in Applied Mathematics
- 1998-2001 - Associates studies at Tidewater Community College, Virginia Beach, VA
- Degree awarded: May 2001 - Associates in Computer Science
- Degree awarded: May 2000 - Associates in Applied Science (Drafting and Design)
- 1991-1995 - Gymnázium Vídeňská, Brno, Czech Republic (May 1995 - Matura)
