Kalina M. Borkiewicz
About Kalina M. Borkiewicz
- Affiliations
- University of Utah, The New York Times
- Location
- Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
- Bio
SIGGRAPH Asia 2022
Kalina Borkiewicz is a principal research programmer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and the director of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL). The AVL creates cinematic-quality visualizations of scientific datasets for venues like planetarium domes, IMAX theaters, and television by combining cutting-edge science, supercomputing technology, computer graphics techniques, and art & design. Kalina’s software development contributions include Ytini for linking data-reading capabilities of yt with Houdini’s user interface, CloudFindr for masking out cloud artifacts from satellite data using machine learning, and Blurend for rendering on the Blue Waters supercomputer.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2019
Alina Borkiewicz is a visualization programmer in the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, where her primary work involves writing software, scripts, and plugins to analyze, import, visualize, and render various types of scientific data. Some of the main tools she codes for include Houdini, yt, Virtual Director, and the Blue Waters supercomputer.
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SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
SIGGRAPH Organization Committee Positions
- Steering Committee Member
- ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee
Conference Contributions
- Animations / Videos
- Experiences
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- Courses Organized
- “Communicating Science Through Visualization in the Age of Alternative Facts” by Christensen and Stone
- “Cinematic Scientific Visualization: The Art of Communicating Science” by Borkiewicz, Christensen, Wyatt, Shirah and Kostis
- “Introduction to Cinematic Scientific Visualization” by Christensen, Wyatt and Wright
Other Information
- Roles
- Birds of Feather Presenter
- Computer Animation Jury Member
- Computer Animation Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Conference Support Committee Member: General Jury
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Immersive Pavilion (VR Village) Developer
- Panel Presenter
- Poster Presenter
- Production Session Presenter
- VR Theater Director
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