Presenter

Victor A. Mateevitsi is an assistant computer scientist at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, where his research interests include large-scale visualizations, mixed reality technologies, and novel interaction techniques. He obtained his PhD in computer science from the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois Chicago. From working on the Universal Scene Description (USD) at Pixar, to spending a summer at DreamWorks animation developing Premo, the award-winning animation platform behind Oscar-nominated movies like How to Train Your Dragon 2, to researching social mixed reality at Microsoft Research, Victor enjoys solving difficult problems.
He has been a TEDx speaker, has been named among the "20 in Their 20s" by Crain's Business Magazine and the "Fifty for the Future®" by the Illinois Technology Foundation, and his work has been featured in magazines such as Forbes, Popular Mechanics, and New Scientist and on television programs such as "Daily Planet" and "All-American Makers."