Bernhard is a Visiting Researcher at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, in the Human Sensing Lab and a Co-Principal Investigator associated with the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) for Instant Visualization and Interaction for Large Point Clouds. His research focuses on real-time graphics, parallel processing, point-based rendering, image-based rendering, radiance fields, and novel-view synthesis. After his PhD at Graz University of Technology in 2018, he briefly joined Epic Games to work on Unreal Engine 5’s Nanite. He started a postdoc at TU Wien the same year, followed by another in 2022 with INRIA in George Drettakis’ GraphDeco group.