Kenny J. Mitchell
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Kenny Mitchell is Head of Research for The Walt Disney Company Ltd and Professor of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University.
He has 19 years of experience delivering research results into commercial video games, including technology for Spielberg's BAFTA winning Boom Blox, the billion dollar Harry Potter and Disney Infinity series.
Since establishing Disney Research in the UK in 2010 he has transferred the impact of video game technology across all of Disney's businesses including digital marketing, consumer products, Imagineering theme parks and resorts, and movie making. He is leading research on two InnovateUK projects delivering real-time methods on digital acting and cinematic lighting into high profile film productions with partners ILM Ltd. Academic landmarks arising from this work include, Adaptive Rendering with Linear Predictions reported in the ACM Transactions on Graphics, which introduces an intelligent prediction scheme to compute quality cinematic images faster than ever before.
Professor Mitchell is also supervisor member of the European DISTRO International Training Network researching 3D printing and augmented reality. He serves the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Strategic Advisory Network, the Digital Media Industry Leadership Group advising the Scottish Parliament, and advisory board roles at Bath, Edinburgh, Napier and UCL universities.
He has 19 years of experience delivering research results into commercial video games, including technology for Spielberg's BAFTA winning Boom Blox, the billion dollar Harry Potter and Disney Infinity series.
Since establishing Disney Research in the UK in 2010 he has transferred the impact of video game technology across all of Disney's businesses including digital marketing, consumer products, Imagineering theme parks and resorts, and movie making. He is leading research on two InnovateUK projects delivering real-time methods on digital acting and cinematic lighting into high profile film productions with partners ILM Ltd. Academic landmarks arising from this work include, Adaptive Rendering with Linear Predictions reported in the ACM Transactions on Graphics, which introduces an intelligent prediction scheme to compute quality cinematic images faster than ever before.
Professor Mitchell is also supervisor member of the European DISTRO International Training Network researching 3D printing and augmented reality. He serves the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Strategic Advisory Network, the Digital Media Industry Leadership Group advising the Scottish Parliament, and advisory board roles at Bath, Edinburgh, Napier and UCL universities.
