Lukas Gruber

Lukas is a principal scientist manager in Microsoft’s Applied Science Group.

He joined Microsoft in 2014 working on Azure Spatial Anchors.  In November 2018 he moved to the Microsoft Spatial AI Lab Zurich where his focus was on large-scale cloud mapping and spatial intelligence.

He earned his Ph.D. on real-time photometric registration for augmented reality from the Graz University of Technology (Austria) at the Christian Doppler Lab for Handheld Augmented Reality.  Before that, he worked on building the world’s first 360-degree-freedom snowboarding game, Stoked, at Bongfish.

When he is not working, Lukas enjoys skiing.