Ken Museth is Sr Director of the High-Fidelity Physics Research team at Nvidia and chair of the Technical Steering Committee for OpenVDB under the Academy Software Foundation. He has a PhD in quantum physics from Copenhagen University and did his postgraduate studies in computer science at Caltech. Previously he was a Sr. Computational Scientist at SpaceX for six years, working on CFD simulations of the Raptor engine, Head of Simulation R&D at Weta FX for three years, working on James Cameron’s Avatar 2, director for FX and CFX simulation teams at DreamWorks Animation for eight years, Sr Software Engineer at Digital Domain for three years, full tenured professor in computer graphics at Linköping University for four years, where he supervised five PhD and 15 MSc students, and research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for three years, working on space-mission design and visualization. Ken invented and founded OpenVDB for which he won two Academy Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; a Technical Achievement Award (Academy Certificate) in 2015 and a Scientific & Engineering Award (Academy Plaque) in 2024. Additionally, in 2023 he was awarded the ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioner Award and was accepted into the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy. Ken has served on the Technical Papers Committee for ACM SIGGRAPH multiple times and has 29 movie credits, including on franchises like “Avatar”, “Avengers”, “The Mummy”, “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “Kung Fu Panda”, and “How to Train Your Dragon”.