AUSIM3D - Key Persons


Agnieszka Roginska

Job Titles:
  • Engineer
Agnieszka is a graduate of New York University's Music Technology master's program as well as the McGill University's Computer Applications in Music program in Montreal. More recently, she has worked extensively with Dr. Gary Kendall at Northwestern University and received a PhD in Music Technology from Northwestern. A concert pianist by avocation, Agnieszka excels as a digital audio programmer and an audio technologist at AuSIM, Inc.

Hua (Geoffrey) Zheng

Job Titles:
  • Programmer
Geoffrey was a graduate student in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at UIUC and a member of NCSA's audio R&D staff. An experienced developer of interactive audio experiences, Geoffrey plays piano and keyboards any chance he gets.

John Tindel

Creative Directors John and Geoff are professional singers, songwriters, musicians, and performers. John has a wealth of studio credits as a creative musician and is building his reputation as a producer at SeaCliff Studios. Geoff is a gifted, comedic, and prolific songwriter and storyteller with a warm, distinctive voice. Collectively Geoff, John, and Len comprise the critically acclaimed musical group " RST". John created the watercolor seen at the top of the page for for InTheMix.

Lennox Smith

Producer Len has been a professional musician, singer, songwriter, audio engineer, and producer for a dozen years. While InTheMix is Len's first interactive production, he has broad experience producing live and studio projects as well as broadcast production.

Rachel Wilkinson

Job Titles:
  • Engineer
Rachel is a graduate of Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics master's program as well as the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research at University of Southampton in the UK. She is a musician and a producer of 2 CD projects.

Robin Bargar

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director
Robin directs the audio technology R&D at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) on the University of Illinois' Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) campus. Robin is a composer working in acoustic and visual media, a veteran Siggraph Electronic Theatre contributor, and well accomplished in developing interactive sound experiences.

William L. Chapin

Job Titles:
  • Architect
  • Executive Producer
  • President / Sales
Bill designed interactive experiences for Siggraph's Tomorrow's Realities in 1991 and 1993, which employed virtual aural environments. The Siggraph 1993 exhibit was encored at ACM SigCHI 1994 in Boston. The inventor of Aureal's A3D Wavetracing acoustic simulation model used broadly in scores of game titles, Bill founded AuSIM Incorporated in 1998 to focus on advanced aural simulation technologies and applications.