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						I am a Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Adam Mickiewicz University  in Poznan, where I lead the Natural Phenomena Modeling Group. Prior to joining the faculty here, I received my PhD from the University of Calgary and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Sainsbury Laboratory , University of Cambridge.
												
						
																
						
 Research Interests 					
						
						  Generative AI and Synthetic DataComputational Modeling of Natural PhenomenaVision AI for Natural PhenomenaDevelopmental Biology of Plants Teaching |  |  |  
 
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						  |  |  | A. Kokosza, H. Wrede, D. G. Esparza, M. Makowski, D. Liu, D. L. Michels, S. Pirk, W. Palubicki,
							Scintilla: Simulating Combustible Vegetation for Wildfires, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2024), Vol. 43, No. 4, Article 70 [Preprint],
							[Website]
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							|  |  | B. Li, N. A. Schwarz, W. Palubicki, S. Pirk, B. Benes,
								Interactive Invigoration: Volumetric Modeling of Trees with Strands, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2024), Vol. 43, No. 4, Article 146 [Preprint],
								[Website]
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						|  |  | J. A. Amador Herrera, J. Klein, D. Liu, W. Palubicki, S. Pirk, D. L. Michels,
							Cyclogenesis: Simulating Hurricanes and Tornadoes, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2024), Vol. 43, No. 4, Article 71 [Preprint],
							[Website]
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						  |  |  | M. Cieslak, U. Govindarajan, A. Garcia, A. Chandrashekar, T. Hadrich, A. Mendoza-Drosik, D. Michels, S. Pirk, C.-C. Fu, W. Palubicki,
							Generating Diverse Agricultural Data for Vision-Based Farming Applications, 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). [Website],
							[Paper],
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						  |  |  | J. Kaluzny, Y. Schreckenberg, K. Cyganik, P. Annighöfer, S. Pirk, D. Michels, M. Cieslak, F. Assaad, B. Benes, W. Palubicki,
							LAESI: Leaf Area Estimation with Synthetic Imagery, 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). [Website],
							[Paper],
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							|  |  | M. Na, J. Klein, B. Zhang, W. Palubicki, S. Pirk, D. L. Michels,
								A Lennard-Jones Layer for Distribution Normalization, under submission, 2024 [Preprint],
								[ArXiv]
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							|  |  | J. Deng, S. Marri, J. Klein, W. Palubicki, S. Pirk, G. Chowdhary, D. L. Michels, 
								Gazebo Plants: Simulating Plant-Robot Interaction with Cosserat Rods, under submission, 2024 [Preprint],
								[ArXiv],
								[Video]
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							|  |  | C. Su, A. Kokosza, X. Xie, A. Pencík, Y. Zhang, P. Raumonen, X. Shi, S. Muranen, M. Kucukoglu Topcu, J. Immanen, R. Hagqvist, O. Safronov, J. Alonso-Serra, G. Eswaran, M. Pavicic Venegas, K. Ljung, S. Ward, A. P. Mähönen, K. Himanen, J. Salojärvi, A. R. Fernie, O. Novák, O. Leyser, W. Palubicki, Y. Helariutta, K. Nieminen,
								Tree architecture: A strigolactone-deficient mutant reveals a connection between branching order and auxin gradient along the tree stem, PNAS, 2023 Nov 28;120(48):e2308587120. [Website],
								[Paper],
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							|  |  | F. Maggioli, J. Klein, T. Hädrich, E. Rodolà, W. Palubicki, S. Pirk, D. L. Michels, 
								A Physically-inspired Approach to the Simulation of Plant Wilting, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2023 [Website],								
								[Preprint],
								[Video]
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							|  |  | B. Li, J. Klein, D. L. Michels, B. Benes, S. Pirk, W. Pałubicki,  
								Rhizomorph: The Coordinated Function of Shoots and Roots, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH), 2023 [Website],
								[Preprint],
								[Video],
								[Bibtex]
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							|  |  | N. Kalbfuß, A. Strohmayr, M. Kegel, L. Le, F. Grosseholz, B. Brunschweiger, K. Stöckl, C. Wiese, C. Franke, C. Schiestl, S. Prem, S. Sha, K. Franz-Oberdorf, J. Hafermann, M. Thiemé, E. Facher, W. Palubicki, C. Bolle, F. F. Assaad,
								A Role for Brassinosteroid Signaling in Decision-Making Processes, PLOS Genetics, 2024 [Website],
								[Paper],
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							|  |  | J. Klein, R. E. Waller, S. Pirk, W. Pałubicki, M. Tester, and D. L. Michels,  
								Synthetic Data at Scale: A Paradigm to Efficiently Leverage Machine Learning in Agriculture,  under submission, 2023 [Website]
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							|  |  | W. Pałubicki, M. Makowski, W. Gajda, T. Hädrich, D. L. Michels, S. Pirk, 
								Ecoclimates: Climate-Response Modeling of Vegetation, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH), 2022 [Website],
								[Preprint],
								[Video],
								[Bibtex]
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							|  |  | W. Raateland, T. Hädrich, J. A. Herrera, D. Banuti, W. Pałubicki, S. Pirk, K. Hildebrandt, D. L. Michels 
								DCGrid: An Adaptive Grid Structure for Memory-Constrained Fluid Simulation on the GPU, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on
								Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, 2022 [Website],
								[Preprint],
								[DOI],
								[Supplementary Material],
								[Code],
								[Video],
								[Bibtex]
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							|  |  | H. Shao, T. Kugelstadt,  T. Hädrich, W. Pałubicki, J. Bender, S. Pirk, D. L. Michels,
								Accurately Solving Rod Dynamics with Graph Learning, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021 [Website],
								[Preprint],
								[ArXiv], 
								[Supplementary Material],
								[Video],
								[Bibtex]
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							|  |  | J. A. Amador Herrera, T. Hädrich, W. Pałubicki, D. T. Banuti, S. Pirk, D. L. Michels, 
								Weatherscapes: Nowcasting Heat Transfer and Water Continuity, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2021 [Website],
								[Preprint],
								[Video],
								[Technical Papers Trailer],
								[Bibtex]
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							|  |  | B. Li, J. Kałużny, J. Klein, D.L. Michels, W. Pałubicki, B. Benes, S. Pirk,  
								Learning to Reconstruct Botanical Trees from Single Images, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2021 [Website],
								[Preprint],
								[Video],
								[Technical Papers Trailer],
								[Bibtex]
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							|  |  | T. Hädrich, D. T. Banuti, W. Pałubicki, S. Pirk, D. L. Michels, 
								Fire in Paradise: Mesoscale Simulation of Wildfires, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2021 [Website],
								[Preprint],								
								[Video], 
								[Talk],
								[Two Minute Papers],
								[Gallery of Fluid Motion],
								[Bibtex]
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							|  |  | T. Hädrich, M. Makowski, W. Pałubicki, D. T. Banuti, S. Pirk, D. L. Michels, 
								Stormscapes: Simulating Cloud Dynamics in the Now, 
								ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2020 [Website],
								[Preprint], 
								[Video], 
								[Talk],
								[Technical Papers Trailer],
								[Bibtex]
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							|  |  | T. Hädrich, J. Scheffczyk, W. Pałubicki, S. Pirk, D. L. Michels, 
								Interactive Wood Fracture, Eurographics / ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation - Posters, 2020
 [Website],
								[Preprint],
								[Video],								
								[Bibtex]
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							|  |  | M. Makowski, T. Hädrich, J. Scheffczyk, D. L. Michels, S. Pirk, W. Pałubicki, 
								Synthetic Silviculture: Multi-scale Modeling of Plant Ecosystems,
								 ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH), 2019 [Website],
								[Preprint],
								[Video],                                 
								[Technical Papers Trailer],
								[Two Minute Papers],
								[Bibtex]
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						  |  |  | Wojtek Palubicki, Andrzej Kokosza, Agata Burian
							Formal description of plant morphogenesis, Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 70, Issue 14, 1 July 2019, Pages 3601–3613 [PDF],
							[Website]
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							|  |  | S. Pirk, M. Jarząbek, T. Hädrich, D. L. Michels, W. Palubicki, 
								Interactive Wood Combustion for Botanical Tree Models,
								ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia), 2017 [Website],
								[Preprint],								
								[Video],
								[Technical Papers Trailer],
								[Two Minute Papers],
								[Bibtex]
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						|  |  | Y. Coudert, W. Palubicki, K. Ljung, O. Novak, O. Leyser, C. J. Harrison,
							Three ancient hormonal cues co-ordinate shoot branching in a moss, Elife, 2015 Mar 25;4:e06808 [Website],
							[Paper],
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					  |  |  | Wojciech Palubicki, Kipp Horel, Steven Longay, Adam Runions, Brendan Lane, Radomír Mech, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz
						Self-organizing tree models for image synthesis, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH), 2009, Volume 28, Issue 3, Article No.: 58, pp 1–10 [PDF],
						[Website]
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 Personal 
 
						
    
        
            | 2015 – Current | Assistant Professor for Computer Science, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland |  
            | 2012 – 2015 | Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK |  
            | 2008 – 2012 | PhD Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada |  
            | 2007 – 2008 | Software Developer for Vizrt Austria GmbH, Schwaz, Austria |  
            | 2013 | PhD in Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada Advisor: Prof. Dr. Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz.
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            | 2007 | Diploma of Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland |  |  |  
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