Digital ArtForms has assembled a world-class team of developers and advisors to deliver the next generation of  imaging interface.

Experts in 3D Interaction

Paul Mlyniec: President

Paul founded Digital ArtForms in 1998 after 15 years in the high-end visual simulation industry at Silicon Graphics and MultiGen-Paradigm.  He has a deep understanding of immersive interaction and visualization with 25+ years creative, development, executive, and fundraising leadership. Since its founding, Paul has focused the company’s activities exclusively on two-handed application development in areas that include: immersive design, medical imaging and teleconsulataion, military command and control, and the rapid examination of 3D baggage/cargo datasets.

Jason Jerald, PhD: Chief Scientist

At the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, the premier institution for immersive studies, Jason earned his PhD in Computer Science with a focus on motion and latency perception for virtual reality.  He has spent over 15 years in various leadership and technical positions building immersive applications, giving him a rare balance of academic and real-world immersive experience. Jason’s specialties include: 3D computer graphics and real-time rendering; virtual and augmented reality; software and hardware development; human-computer interaction; perception, immersion and presence; and user studies. The many diverse organizations he has worked with include NASA Ames, Oculus VR, Valve Software, Argonne National Laboratories, and the Naval Research Laboratory.

Arun Yoganandan, MS: Lead Architect, Volumetric Systems

Arun’s high-end immersive experience in academia at the Industrial Virtual Reality Institute at the University of Illinois, Chicago and professionally with Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs prepared him to lead Digital ArtForms’ medical software development. Passionate about interactive computer graphics, his interests lie in the intersection of visualization, human computer interaction and high-performance computing. Arun leads Digital ArtForms’ development of both surface and volumetric GPU-based rendering.

Advisory Board

Digital ArtForms’ Board of Advisors includes leaders and visionaries in the field of Radiology and 3D graphics.

David Kim, MD

Dr. Kim is the residency program director and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, abdominal division.  His strong interest in resident education complements his primary research interests, which revolve around CT colonography.  He co-wrote CT Colonography: Principles and Practice of Virtual Colonoscopy in addition to publishing numerous papers on the subject.  Dr. Kim takes an active role in guiding Digital ArtForms’ development, ensuring that its software realistically serves diagnostic workflow.

Eliot Siegel, MD

Dr. Siegel, widely known as the “Father of Digital Radiology”, is Professor and Vice Chair at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, as well as Chief of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine for the Veterans Affairs (VA) Maryland Healthcare System.  Under his guidance, the VA Maryland Healthcare System became the first filmless healthcare enterprise in the United States.  He has written over 200 articles and book chapters about PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) and digital imaging, and has edited six books on the topic, including Filmless Radiology and Security Issues in the Digital Medical Enterprise.

He has been named Researcher of the Year, received multiple awards for innovation, including the Smithsonian Award, and was selected as runner up Educator of the Year for Diagnostic Radiology.  The readers and editorial board of Medical Imaging have selected Dr. Siegel as one of the top ten radiologists for the past two years.  He is chairman of the RSNA’s Medical Imaging Resource Committee.  His areas of interest and responsibility at both the local and national levels include digital imaging and PACS, telemedicine, the electronic medical record, and informatics.  Dr. Siegel’s vision is key to Digital ArtForms’ technical leadership.

Jeff Bellinghausen, CTO Sixense

Formerly Digital ArtForms’ Chief Architect and CTO of Sixense Entertainment, Jeff is now a senior researcher at Valve Software.  Sixense changed the face of Gaming with the technology it licensed to Razer for the Hydra controller and Sixense’s own MotionTouch technology.  Jeff also has 15 years of experience developing immersive 3D simulators for medical and military applications and was instrumental in the development of Digital ArtForms’ C2THI (Command and Control Two-Handed Interface) for the U.S. Army CERDEC for mission planning, battle command, and after action review.

Jeff Anderson, Anderline Consulting

Jeff has over 20 years of executive-level sales and marketing experience, including over 17 years as Vice President of Sales and Marketing with subsidiaries and affiliates of Sea Containers Group and GE Capital.  Jeff started his own London-based Corporate Finance company in 2001 specializing in development capital and Mergers and Acquisitions focused on financial services, e-commerce and technology.  In addition to financial and sales guidance, Jeff provides insight to Digital ArtForms regarding European markets and potential sales and collaborative opportunities.

Industry Experts

Steve Wolff, President Wolff Consulting Services

Mr. Wolff has over 20 years experience developing, integrating, testing, marketing and deploying advanced aviation and security detection systems for scanning bags, mail, vehicles and passengers as well as other non-destructive testing applications to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, TSA, U.K. Department For Transport, U.K. Home Office and other European governments.  He devised product concepts, developed integrated security solutions for hold-, cabin baggage and passenger screening, wrote proposals and was awarded over $8 million in product development funding from government and industry partners worldwide.  Mr. Wolff was a cofounder and V.P. of Marketing & Product Engineering for InVision Technologies (now Morpho), developing advanced detection systems including the successful CTX-5000 hold baggage explosives detection system.  Earlier, Mr. Wolff worked on security technology for SAIC.

Norman Shanks FSyI, Principal Partner NSAI

Mr. Shanks is a Visiting Professor in Aviation Security at Coventry University, a Fellow of The Security Institute, and is recognized as one of the world’s foremost specialists in aviation security with over forty years operational, management and consultancy experience in international civil aviation. He has worked closely with governmental security development agencies, including the U.K. Dept for Transport, Home Office Scientific Branch and the U.S. FAA, and was Airport Security Manager at Heathrow Airport for five years.  Mr. Shanks helped develop a range of essential security enhancements to the UK National Security Programme following the Lockerbie incident, and as Head of Group Security for British Airports Authority he conceived and designed the multi level integrated 100% hold baggage screening (HBS) installation which has since become the conceptual design behind every 100% HBS integrated installation world wide.  He is co-author of the Handbook of Checked Baggage Screening –Advanced Airport Security Operation, a contributing author on Aviation Security: Challenges and Solutions, has published numerous articles in leading aviation and transport publications, and is a frequent guest on television and radio news programs as an expert in aviation security.