About Kenny

Short Bio

Kenny Mitchell BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, is a research lead providing commercial technology solutions to the Walt Disney Company Ltd. He is located in the beautiful city of Edinburgh, Scotland at an outpost of the Disney Research's Zurich lab. Over the past 15 years he has shipped games using high-end graphics technologies including voxels, volumetric light scattering, motion blur and curved surfaces. His PhD introduced the use of real-time 3D for information visualization on consumer hardware, including a novel recursive perspective projection technique. In between contributing to the technically acclaimed racing game Split Second, Speilberg's Boom Blox (BAFTA award winner), and the Harry Potter franchise games he is involved in developing new intellectual properties. His work includes collaboration with Disney Interactive Studios, Pixar Research, Disney Research Pittsburgh, Feature Animation, Consumer Products and Imagineering, and many successful funded University collaborations. He is the most senior Disney research representative in the UK.

Associations

• EPSRC Strategic Advisory Network - United Kingdom Government's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council advisory network member
• EPSRC Digital Economy Review Panel - United Kingdom Government's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council review panel member
• ACM SIGGRAPH Unified Jury - ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Unified Jury Member (2011, 2012)
• ACM SIGGRAPH Games Development Community Sub-Committtee - Member of Games sub-committee encouraging game developer excellence (2011, 2012)
• ACM SIGGRAPH Conference Guidance Committee - Member of advisory group to steer conference strategy in relation to games industry (2012)
• BAFTA Review Panel - Member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts panel for story in games (2009)
• European FP7 Task Leader - Seventh Framework Programme of the EU task leader and game industry applicant on Future Internet CONTENT and REVERIE
• Edinburgh Univeristy School of Design Informatics Steering Board - Corporate representative on steering group concerning art and computing science disciplines
• Edinburgh Napier University Knowledge Exchange Forum - Member of industry guidance board for creative industries
• ACM/IEEE Member

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