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Kalina Borkiewicz is the Director of the Visualization Program Office at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), where she provides leadership and management of strategic directions and activities for visualization at the NCSA. The Center has four visualization teams, with expertise spanning the spectrum of technology to design, and fields ranging from astrophysics to genomics.

Kalina is also Director of the NCSA Advanced Visualization Lab, an Academy Award-nominated team that produces cinematic scientific visualization videos that have been seen by millions of people worldwide through documentaries, IMAX films, and museums. As part of this team, Kalina personally contributed to films including "A Beautiful Planet" (IMAX), "Birth of Planet Earth" (fulldome), and "Seeing the Beginning of Time" (4KTV).

In 2023, Kalina volunteered as Director of the ACM SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater program, leading a team of 50+ other volunteers in planning the highest-attended program events of the ~15,000 person conference in Los Angeles, CA.

Kalina's background is in computer science. In her days as a software engineer, she was one of the primary creators of Ytini, an open-source middleware between the scientific analysis and visualization Python package, yt, and the visual effects software, Houdini. She also volunteers with several women's STEM organizations, hoping to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in computer science, computer graphics, supercomputing, and visualization. Kalina is also an educator and public speaker, whose CV includes giving a TEDx Salon talk, and teaching data storytelling in the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at the graduate level.
Presentations
ACM Student Research Competition: Graduate Poster
ACM Student Research Competition: Undergraduate Poster
Doctoral Showcase
Posters
Research Posters
Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics Showcase
Data Analysis, Visualization, and Storage
Modeling and Simulation
Visualization
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