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Ken Museth

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About Ken Museth

Affiliations

Linköping University
DreamWorks Pictures
Wētā FX
NVIDIA, NVIDIA Research

Location

Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Bio

SIGGRAPH 2025

Ken Museth is senior director of High-Fidelity Physics Research at NVIDIA. Previously, he was Head of R&D at Weta, working on Avatar2. He is the creator of VDB and chair of OpenVDB’s Technical Steering Committee. Additionally, Ken worked six years for SpaceX on CFD simulations of the Raptor rocket engine. Before joining Weta in 2017, he worked for a decade at DreamWorks Animation and Digital Domain, and prior to that for a decade as respectively a researcher and full professor at Caltech and Linkoping University. He holds a PhD from Copenhagen University and was awarded two Academy Awards for OpenVDB.

OTHER AFFILIATIONS: Digital Domain, Inc., University of Aarhus

SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions

Conference Contributions

Experiences

ACM SIGGRAPH Village

2023 Image Not Available
ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioners: Skills You Need to Step Up!
SIGGRAPH 2023
[ACM SIGGRAPH Village]
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Entry #: 13

Birds of a Feather

OpenVDB
SIGGRAPH 2024
[Birds of a Feather]
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OpenVDB Community BoF
SIGGRAPH 2023
[Birds of a Feather]
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Academy Software Foundation: Open Source Project Updates
SIGGRAPH 2020
[Birds of a Feather]
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OpenVDB
SIGGRAPH 2019
[Birds of a Feather]
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2018 SIGGRAPH Birds of a Feather Image Not Available
OpenVDB
SIGGRAPH 2018
[Birds of a Feather]
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OpenVDB
SIGGRAPH 2014
[Birds of a Feather]
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Learning

Courses

2023 Courses: Museth_OpenVDB
OpenVDB
SIGGRAPH 2023
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2021 4 Introduction to WebXR
OPENVDB
SIGGRAPH 2021
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Entry #: 04
2019 17 OpenVDB
OpenVDB
SIGGRAPH 2019
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Entry #: 17
2015 20 OpenVDB
OpenVDB
SIGGRAPH 2015
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Entry #: 20
2013 19 OpenVDB An Open-Source Data Structure and Toolkit for High-Resolution Volumes
OpenVDB: An Open-Source Data Structure and Toolkit for High-Resolution Volumes
SIGGRAPH 2013
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Entry #: 19
2004 27 Level Set and PDE Methods for Computer Graphics
Level Set and PDE Methods for Computer Graphics
SIGGRAPH 2004
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Entry #: 27

Panels

2009 SIGGRAPH Image Not Available
Short-Cuts to Reality: The Art and Compromise of Software Development for Physics-Based VFX
SIGGRAPH 2009
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Posters

2007 Poster Bergbom Robust Fitting of Super Helices to Parametric Curves
Robust fitting of super-helices to parametric curves
SIGGRAPH 2007
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Technical Papers

2024 Technical Papers: Williams_fVDB A Deep-learning Framework for Sparse, Large Scale, and High Performance Spatial Intelligence
fVDB : A Deep-learning Framework for Sparse, Large Scale, and High Performance Spatial Intelligence
SIGGRAPH 2024
[Technical Papers]
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2024 Technical Papers: Kim_NeuralVDB High-resolution Sparse Volume Representation using Hierarchical Neural Networks
NeuralVDB: High-resolution Sparse Volume Representation using Hierarchical Neural Networks
SIGGRAPH 2024
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2020 Technical Paper: SKRIVAN_Wave Curves: Simulating Lagrangian water waves on dynamically deforming surfaces
Wave Curves: Simulating Lagrangian water waves on dynamically deforming surfaces
SIGGRAPH 2020
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2017 Technical Paper: PRADHANA_Multi-species simulation of porous sand and water mixtures
Multi-species simulation of porous sand and water mixtures
SIGGRAPH 2017
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2013 SIGGRAPH Image Not Available
VDB: High‐Resolution Sparse Volumes With Dynamic Topology
SIGGRAPH 2013
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2011 SIGGRAPH Image Not Available
A PML-Based Nonreflective Boundary for Free Surface Fluid Animation
SIGGRAPH 2011
[Technical Papers]
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2002 Technical Paper: Museth_Level Set Surface Editing Operators
Level set surface editing operators
SIGGRAPH 2002
[Technical Papers]
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