Ken Museth is a senior director in Simulation Technology at NVIDIA. He was previously Head of R&D in Simulations at Weta, working on Avatar2. He is the creator of VDB and chair of OpenVDB's Technical Steering Committee. Additionally, Ken worked six years for SpaceX on CFD simulations of the Raptor rocket engine. Before joining Weta in 2017, he worked for a decade at DreamWorks-Animation and Digital-Domain, and prior to that for a decade as respectively a researcher and full professor at Caltech and Linkoping University. He holds a PhD from Copenhagen University and was awarded an Academy Award for OpenVDB.