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Resume (English only)
Research Experience
- Developed a multi-user Mixed Reality library for sharing collocated Augmented Reality experiences with Jaron Lanier, the father of VR
- Contributed to the development of Premo, the animation tool behind Oscar-nominated movies like How To Train Your Dragon 2
- Worked on designing and developing next-generation devices, smart interactions, and sensor technologies
- Currently working on in-situ large-scale visualizations running on the Supercomputer at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
- Worked on USD, a library that allows for interchange of elemental assets and animations and is now core of Pixar's 3D graphics pipeline
Background
- Computer Scientist
- Works at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Laboratory
- Founder and chair of ChicagoCHI
- Co-founder of PICKLE
- Consults startups and companies on HCI, UX, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and emerging technologies
- Expertise in large-scale visualizations and prototyping novel ways of interacting with next-gen technology, including hardware prototypes and innovative User Experiences
Miscellany
- Personal interests: ice hockey, snowboarding, sailing, reading, making things at Pumping Station: One, or developing future technologies, like SpiderSense
- Loves crazy ideas, difficult problems, and emerging technologies
- Has been a TEDx speaker and spoken to world-class conferences, like the Augmented World Exposition (AWE)
- Interested in participating in your next panel, conference, or event