Kalina M. Borkiewicz
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- University of Utah, The New York Times
Other / Past Affiliation(s):
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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.
SIGGRAPH Member Profile:
Experience Category: Organizing Committee Chair:
Experience Category: Organizing Committee Co-Chair/Adminitrative Assistant:
Course Organizer:
- SIGGRAPH 2017, "Communicating Science Through Visualization in the Age of Alternative Facts"
- SIGGRAPH 2019, "Cinematic Scientific Visualization: The Art of Communicating Science"
- SIGGRAPH 2020, "Introduction to Cinematic Scientific Visualization"
Experience Category: Jury Member:
- Computer Animation, SIGGRAPH 2021
- Emerging Technologies, SIGGRAPH 2024
- Appy Hour, SIGGRAPH 2024
- Labs-Studio, SIGGRAPH 2024
- VR Experiences, SIGGRAPH 2024
Learning Category: Jury Member:
Animation/Video(s):
Experience(s):
Learning Category: Presentation(s):
Role(s):
- Birds of Feather Presenter
- Computer Animation Jury Member
- Computer Animation Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Immersive Pavilion (VR Village) Developer
- Panel Presenter
- Poster Presenter
- Production Session Presenter
- Unified Jury Member
- VR Theater Director
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