Presenter

Kyoung Lee Swearingen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Design and a former Lighting Technical Director at Pixar Animation Studios. Her filmography includes Ratatouille, Wall-E, and Toy Story3, which have claimed numerous awards from the Academy Awards, Visual Effects Society, The American Film Institute, as well as many others. Her current research focuses on creating games and animation for social good through human-centered technology. Her award-winning projects have been shown (inter)nationally at ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE-GEM, GDC, Montreal Independent Game Festival, and Bucheon International Animation Festival.