Author

Alexey is a principal researcher at Weta FX. Prior to that he was employed at Weta Digital and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is known for leading the development of water simulation technology behind Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and, prior to that, implementing Disney's in-house distributed fluid solver Splash, used to create the majority of water effects in Moana (2016). He also pioneered Disney's in-house material point method engine Matterhorn, which was used extensively for snow simulation in Frozen (2013). He does research in computational solid/fluid mechanics, multi-material interactions and parallel/high performance computing.