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About Kalina M. Borkiewicz

Affiliations

University of Utah and The New York Times
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Advanced Visualization Lab

Location

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Bio

SIGGRAPH 2025

Kalina is currently working on a PhD in computer graphics and visualization at the University of Utah. Prior to her return to school, Kalina was Director of the Visualization Program Office and Director of the Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she worked for almost a decade. The AVL is an Academy Award-nominated team which creates cinematic scientific visualizations for museums, IMAX, and documentary films, making complex science topics accessible and exciting to millions of people around the world by leveraging Hollywood cinematography and storytelling tools and techniques. In her recent SIGGRAPH history, Kalina served as the 2023 Director of the Electronic Theater program.

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 Conference Organizing Committee Positions

SIGGRAPH Organization Committee Positions

Steering Committee Member

ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee

Conference Contributions

Experiences

Birds of a Feather

WOSC Mixer & Breakfast
SIGGRAPH 2024
[Birds of a Feather]
Contributor(s):
Colorful Insights: Unleashing the Impact of Color in Visualization
SIGGRAPH 2023
[Birds of a Feather]
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Using scientific data to show climate change in “Atlas of a Changing Earth” Meet & Greet
SIGGRAPH 2022
[Birds of a Feather]
Contributor(s):
Mentoring Women: Open Discussion
SIGGRAPH 2021
[Birds of a Feather]
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Untold HERstories: An Homage to SIGGRAPH: Question and Answer Session
SIGGRAPH 2019
[Birds of a Feather]
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VR Experiences

2015 SIGGRAPH Image Not Available
Dynamic Earth: Scientific Visualization Excerpts
SIGGRAPH 2015
[VR Experiences]
Contributor(s):
Entry #: 19
2015 Immersive Pavilion: Cox_Solar Superstorms: Scientific Visualization Excerpts
Solar Superstorms: Scientific Visualization Excerpts
SIGGRAPH 2015
[VR Experiences]
Contributor(s):
Entry #: 48

Learning

Courses

2022 SA Course: Jensen_Evidence-based Science Communication and Cinematic Scientific Visualization
Evidence-based Science Communication and Cinematic Scientific Visualization
SIGGRAPH Asia 2022
[Courses]
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2019 SA Course_Borkiewicz_Cinematic Scientific Visualization: The Art of Communicating Science
Cinematic Scientific Visualization: The Art of Communicating Science
SIGGRAPH Asia 2019
[Courses]
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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]
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2022 Courses: Jensen_Evidence-based science communication: through cinematic scientific visualization
Evidence-based science communication: through cinematic scientific visualization
SIGGRAPH 2022
[Courses]
Presenter(s):
Entry #: 08
2019 5 Cinematic Scientific Visualization The Art of Communicating Science
Cinematic Scientific Visualization: The Art of Communicating Science
SIGGRAPH 2019
[Courses]
Organizer(s):
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Entry #: 05

Panels

2024 Panel: Riedemann_Visualization and the ScienceArt of Making the Complex Simple
Visualization and the Science/Art of Making the Complex Simple
SIGGRAPH 2024
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Posters

2019 Poster 69 Shih_Interactive Cinematic Scientific Visualization
Interactive Cinematic Scientific Visualization in Unity
SIGGRAPH 2019
[Posters]
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Entry #: 69

Production Sessions

2024 Production Session: Borkiewicz_Crafting an Immersive SciViz Experience for the 2023 SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater Pre-Show
Crafting an Immersive SciViz Experience for the 2023 SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater Pre-Show
SIGGRAPH 2024
[Production Sessions]
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]
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