Dioselin Alejandra Gonzalez

Most Recent Affiliation(s):

• Purdue University, Envision Center for Data Perceptualization

Other / Past Affiliation(s):

• Unity Labs

• Pixar

• DreamWorks Pictures and Microsoft Mixed Reality

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Bio:

• SIGGRAPH 2018

  Dio is the Engineering Director for Mixed Reality (MR) avatar services at Microsoft. She holds a master?s degree from Purdue University, where she was involved in collaborative Virtual Reality (VR) research for CAVE?-like systems. As a lecturer at Singapore?s Nanyang Polytechnic, she specialized in future immersive technologies, and later as a research scientist at University of Louisiana she conducted R&D for a large scale VR framework for the US Army Research Laboratory. She worked 5 years in the animated film industry at Pixar and DreamWorks Animation, and before joining Microsoft she spent 2 years at Unity Labs conducting VR and MR research.

  SIGGRAPH 2017

  Dioselin Gonzalez is a Lead Principal Engineer at Unity Labs. She architected, lead and delivered the prototype of Carte Blanche (consumer VR authoring tool). She now heads the mixed reality research group at Unity Labs. She holds a master?s degree from Purdue University, where she was involved in collaborative VR research for CAVE?-like systems and real-time immersive theater initiatives. As a research scientist at University of Louisiana, Dio was part of an R&D lab for a large scale VR simulation framework for the US Army Research Laboratory. Dio worked 5 years in the animated film industry at DreamWorks Animation (DWA) and Pixar. She also lead an immersive storytelling platform at DWA for an initiative to commercialize animation technology. Additionally, for 2 years in Singapore she was a games programming lecturer at Nanyang Polytechnic and a government consultant on future immersive technologies.

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Experience Category: Jury Member:

• Computer Animation, SIGGRAPH 2017
• VR Theater, SIGGRAPH 2017
• VR Experiences, SIGGRAPH 2018