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About AJ Christensen

Affiliations
ACM SIGGRAPH
Bio

SIGGRAPH Asia 2019

AJ Christensen is a visualization programmer for the Advanced Visualization Lab at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He focuses on scripting, scene design, derived data, and data flow, and I is a super-user of visual effects tools like Maya and Houdini. In addition to his film credits with the AVL, he contributed to the science-inspired renderings of gravitational lensing around a black hole in the Christopher Nolan film “Interstellar” at Double Negative.

SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions

SIGGRAPH Organization Committee Positions

Steering Committee Member
ACM SIGGRAPH Chapters Committee
Leadership History Overview
Chapters Committee Member: 2025-2026 - 2018-2019 - 2017-2018 - 2016-2017 - 2015-2016 - 2014-2015 - 2013-2014 - 2012-2013 - 2011-2012 - 2010-2011
Chapters Chair: 2024-2025 - 2023-2024 - 2022-2023 - 2021-2022 - 2020-2021 - 2019-2020

Conference Contributions

Experiences
2024 SIGGRAPH Image Not Available
Chapters Party
SIGGRAPH 2024
[ACM SIGGRAPH Village]
Contributor(s):
2024 SIGGRAPH Image Not Available
Chapters: Fast Forward Video Presentations
SIGGRAPH 2024
[ACM SIGGRAPH Village]
Contributor(s):
2024 SIGGRAPH Image Not Available
Chapters: How to Join or Start an ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter
SIGGRAPH 2024
[ACM SIGGRAPH Village]
Contributor(s):
2023 Image Not Available
Chapters: How to Join or Start an ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter
SIGGRAPH 2023
[ACM SIGGRAPH Village]
Contributor(s):
Entry #: 15
LGBTQI+ and Allies Rainbow Meetup
SIGGRAPH 2023
[Birds of a Feather]
Contributor(s):
Using scientific data to show climate change in “Atlas of a Changing Earth” Meet & Greet
SIGGRAPH 2022
[Birds of a Feather]
Contributor(s):
Untold HERstories: An Homage to SIGGRAPH: Question and Answer Session
SIGGRAPH 2019
[Birds of a Feather]
Contributor(s):
2015 SIGGRAPH Image Not Available
Dynamic Earth: Scientific Visualization Excerpts
SIGGRAPH 2015
[VR Experiences]
Contributor(s):
Entry #: 19
Immersive Visualization for Science and Research International
SIGGRAPH 2015
[Birds of a Feather]
Contributor(s):
SIGGIG
SIGGRAPH 2015
[Birds of a Feather]
Contributor(s):
2015 Immersive Pavilion: Cox_Solar Superstorms: Scientific Visualization Excerpts
Solar Superstorms: Scientific Visualization Excerpts
SIGGRAPH 2015
[VR Experiences]
Contributor(s):
Entry #: 48
SIGGIG: Gays In Graphics
SIGGRAPH 2013
[Birds of a Feather]
Contributor(s):
Presentations
2019 SA Course_Borkiewicz_Cinematic Scientific Visualization: The Art of Communicating Science
Cinematic Scientific Visualization: The Art of Communicating Science
SIGGRAPH Asia 2019
[Courses]
Presenter(s):
2017 SA_Courses_Borkiewicz_Communicating Science Through Visualization in the Age of Alternative Facts
Communicating Science Through Visualization in the Age of Alternative Facts
SIGGRAPH Asia 2017
[Courses]
Presenter(s):
2022 Production Session: Borkiewicz_Using scientific data to show climate change in "Atlas of a Changing Earth"
Using scientific data to show climate change in "Atlas of a Changing Earth"
SIGGRAPH 2022
[Production Sessions]
Presenter(s):
2020 5 Introduction to Cinematic Scientific Visualization
Introduction to Cinematic Scientific Visualization
SIGGRAPH 2020
[Courses]
Organizer(s):
Presenter(s):
Entry #: 05
2019 5 Cinematic Scientific Visualization The Art of Communicating Science
Cinematic Scientific Visualization: The Art of Communicating Science
SIGGRAPH 2019
[Courses]
Organizer(s):
Presenter(s):
Entry #: 05
2019 Poster 69 Shih_Interactive Cinematic Scientific Visualization
Interactive Cinematic Scientific Visualization in Unity
SIGGRAPH 2019
[Posters]
Presenter(s):
Entry #: 69
2017 10 Communicating Science Through Visualization in the Age of Alternative Facts
Communicating Science Through Visualization in the Age of Alternative Facts
SIGGRAPH 2017
[Courses]
Organizer(s):
Presenter(s):
Entry #: 10

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