Jurors
We recognize the time, creative energy, and hard work that goes into every submission. We partnered with leading experts to assess and select a diverse representation of high quality works for the EnLightening session.Michael Böttinger, DKRZ (German Climate Computing Center)
Brenda Lopez Silva, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Fulbright Fellow
Nina McCurdy, NASA/Ames Research Center
Cristina Tarquini, Studio Crtq
Ryan Wyatt, California Academy of Sciences
Special thanks
Gerik Scheuermann, Leipzig University, GermanyEvan Hirsch, Anthem
Mark Elendt, SideFX
The former ACM SIGGRAPH Dailies program served as an inspiration for the Enlightening call for submissions and presentation format.
Ella Kaplan, Scientific Visualization Studio, NASA
Andrew Christensen, Scientific Visualization Studio, NASA
Kel Elkins, Scientific Visualization Studio, NASA
Organizing Committee
Helen-Nicole Kostis
Helen-Nicole Kostis is a science visualizer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Based at the Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) Eleni serves Earth Science missions and programs by developing data-driven animations to communicate complex research findings to the scientific communities and the public. In 2010, with fellow team members Eleni brought to life the NASA Visualization Explorer - a conduit that released two visualization stories per week. Eleni is the recipient of NASA’s Exceptional Achievement Award for Outreach and is a co-author of the Foundations of Data Visualization.
Mark SubbaRao
Mark SubbaRao leads NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio , a group tasked with visualizing NASA science results for public audiences. Before joining NASA, Mark spent 18 years at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, where he produced planetarium shows and designed museum exhibits featuring data-driven scientific visualizations. During 2019-2020 Mark served as President of the International Planetarium Society (IPS), where he spearheaded the " Data to Dome " initiative - an effort to prepare the planetarium community for the big data era. Before that he worked at the University of Chicago where he was part of a team that created the largest 3D map of the Universe, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Mark's visualizations have been widely featured in print, TV, museums, and even projected on the sides of buildings.
Marlen Promann
Marlen Promann is a design researcher with 9 years of human-centered design experience in data-rich contexts requiring visual aids to support information discovery and sensemaking such as library systems, engineering teams, and energy aware communities . She is trained in design thinking ( B.A. Honors Design ) and social scientific research methods ( M.Sc. in Media and Communications ) and holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Design, Technology, and Innovation Leadership from Purdue University where she focused on the cognitive and social psychology of data feedback charts. She has consulted for Fortune 100 companies, government initiatives (e.g. London 2012 Olympics) and won numerous awards for her research and product innovations (e.g., IEEE VAST, NordiCHI, CHI, Whirlpool, GE, etc.).