Dr. Jens Schneider is an assistant professor in the Division of Information and Computing Technology, College of Science and Engineering, HBKU.
He received his diploma in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen, Germany, in 2004 and his doctorate in Computer Science from Technical University Munich, Germany, in 2009.

His main research interests include interactive and GPU-based Visualization, GPU-friendly Data Compression, Large-scale Visualization, and Level of Detail Algorithms.

Teams led by Dr. Schneider have won the IEEE Visualization contest two consecutive years, 2005 and 2006.