Presenter

AJ Christensen is a visualization programmer for the Advanced Visualization Lab at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He focuses on scripting, scene design, derived data, and data flow, and is a programmer-designer for visual effects tools like Houdini and Nuke. In addition to his film credits with the AVL, he contributed to the Oscar winning science-inspired renderings of gravitational lensing around a black hole in the film “Interstellar” with effects studio Double Negative.