Presenter

Kalina Borkiewicz is a visualization research programmer in the Advanced Visualization Lab at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, where she writes software that processes and visualizes various types of massive scientific data. She recently created the open-source software Ytini to make visualization tools freely available to artists and scientists. Kalina contributed to the creation of such films as "A Beautiful Planet" (IMAX), "Solar Superstorms" (fulldome), and "Seeing the Beginning of Time" (4K). She gave a talk at TEDxUIUC, a local chapter of the TED conference, describing her path as a woman engineer.