Chapters Committee

AJ Christensen is a visualization programmer for the Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he creates cinematic data-driven science imagery for IMAX films, digital fulldome films, and television documentaries. In addition to his film credits with the AVL, he contributed to the science-inspired renderings of gravitational lensing around a black hole in the Oscar-winning film “Interstellar” as an FX TD at Double Negative. He is pursuing a masters degree in science education in digital environments.

AJ joined the ACM SIGGRAPH community when he chartered his student chapter at the University of Illinois. He began serving on the Professional and Student Chapters Committee in 2009 where he helped coordinate student chapters worldwide, became a founding member of the London chapter, and most recently served as vice chair. AJ has also served as the SIGGRAPH 2019 Posters Program Chair, as a member of the Nominations Committee, and as an organizer for the annual LGBTQI-in-Graphics gatherings. AJ is currently serving as chair of the Professional and Student Chapters Committee.