Nicholas Vining is a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA and an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia. His work focuses on connections between geometry processing and real-time rendering, games, and cloud computing; content creation tools for artists, with particular focuses on art for video games, vector art, garment editing, fabrication, and sketch processing; hexahedral meshing; and geometric representations that underpin generative AI. Prior to working for NVIDIA, he worked for Google on the Stadia cloud gaming platform; prior to that, he was the Technical Director of Gaslamp Games, makers of the award-winning independent video game, "Dungeons of Dredmor."