The AVL is a “Renaissance Team”, where each member of the AVL team plays a unique role and contributes a variety of skills to the process, development, and production. Our expertise includes advanced graphics and visualization techniques, artistic design, cinematic choreography, multimedia and video production, and data management and render wrangling.
The Advanced Visualization Lab bridges the gap between science and the arts. We create high-resolution data-driven cinematic-quality visualizations for public outreach.
Donna Cox
Director
Donna Cox
Director
Professor in the School of Art and Design, Associate Director for Research & Education, Director of the AVL and the eDream Institute, and Theme Lead for Culture and Society at the NCSA at the University of Illinois.
Robert Patterson
Viz Artist
Robert Patterson
Viz Artist
Bob Patterson is a senior designer and camera choreographer in the AVL.
Stuart Levy
Viz Programmer
Stuart Levy
Viz Programmer
Stuart Levy is a senior programmer and system administrator in the AVL.
Jeffrey Carpenter
Viz Artist
Jeffrey Carpenter
Viz Artist
Jeff Carpenter is a multimedia specialist and designer in the AVL.
AJ Christensen
Viz Programmer
AJ Cristensen
Viz Programmer
Designer & Programmer in the AVL. He uses scripting languages to manipulate data and design 3D virtual environments. An expert user of the effects package Houdini, as well as proprietary AVL tools and other commercial software like Maya & Nuke.
Kalina Borkiewicz
Viz Programmer
Kalina Borkiewicz
Viz Programmer
Kalina is a programmer in the AVL. She writes software, scripts, and plugins into commercial visual effects software to process and visualize various types of massive scientific data.
The Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) is committed to communicating science and inspiring audiences to learn about scientific concepts through capturing the thrill of scientific discovery and the wonder of complex systems. Working in close collaboration with domain scientists, AVL creates high-resolution, cinematic, data-driven scientific visualizations.
