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About Mk Haley

Affiliations
University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Professor
The Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Imagineering
Disney ABC Television Groups
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Bio

SIGGRAPH 2025

Mk has been a SIGGRAPH member since 1989. Her contributions to the SIGGRAPH organization began with the SIGGRAPH Education Committee where she served from 1990-1997. She was the SPACE Art Show Chair and with Jackie White, was co-editor of the Education Committee Newsletter. In 2004-2007 she was the ACM SIGGRAPH Director of Communications. In 2017-2020 she was the SIGGRAPH Conference Frontiers Program Chair while the Program was getting started as an organizational effort. It became a regular SIGGRAPH Conference venue in 2021. She has also worked with the S3 Committee (SIGGRAPH Student Services, currently renamed as the Early Career Development Committee) as a program advisor and a participant mentor. In 2010-2012, she served on the ACM Computers in Entertainment (CIE) Board of Editors.

She has served in different aspects of the SIGGRAPH Conference beginning in 1989 when she hosted 11 Student Volunteers at her parent’s house for the Boston SIGGRAPH Conference. She served as a SIGGRAPH Conference Student Volunteer in 1990-1992 and as a SIGGRAPH Conference Student Volunteer Team Leader for 1993-1995. In 1997, she was the SIGGRAPH Conference Student Volunteer Chair. In 2001, she was the SIGGRAPH Conference Emerging Technologies Chair. She was the SIGGRAPH Conference Chair for 2013 and served on the SIGGRAPH Conference Advisory Group from 2011-2014. In 2022, she was the SIGGRAPH Conference Emerging Technologies Chair. She has also been a frequent Conference content juror and onsite panel moderator/papers session wrangler. She is the SIGGRAPH 2026 RTL! (Real Time Live!) Venue Chair.

Her most substantial contributions were to the Conference Student Volunteer and Emerging Technologies Programs. For the Student Volunteer Program, she helped guide it through several evolutions as it expanded and contracted over time, and she mentored students toward both professional success and more senior roles within the ACM SIGGRAPH organization. For the Emerging Technologies Program she helped it to evolve and remain a consistent and distinctive part of the Conference. Mk was awarded the ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award in 2025.

SIGGRAPH 2014

Mk Haley is a Research Producer and works in Tech Transfer with the Disney Research, having worked with Disney for 20 years across Imagineering, Research and Development, Television and other groups in a variety of creative, technical, and operations roles. She was Full-Time Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University where she served as Associate Executive Producer of the Entertainment Technology Center. She has contributed to books on the creative process with Walt Disney Imagineering, and patented work in the area of user interfaces. MK served as Chair for the 2013 SIGGRAPH Conference.

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