David J. Zielinski
Virtual Reality Software Engineer
 Visualization Technology Group. (VTG)
Duke School of Engineering (Pratt)

David J. Zielinski received his BS and MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1998-2004). There he studied topics such as networking, artifical intelligence, electronic music, and computer graphics. For his graduate work he created a suite of virtual reality musical instruments under the guidance of Bill Sherman. David then joined the Duke University Visualization Technology Group as a full-time staff member under the direction of Rachael Brady in 2004. Current software is created using the commercial engine/language/IDE of Virtools or the open-source combination of Syzygy, C++, and OpenGL.

Publications, Posters, and Presentations:

"Reactivity to Negative Affect: Innovative Measurement of a Universal Process". R. Brady; K. LaBar; J. Bagwell; H. Thompson; D. Zielinski; M. Rosenthal. To be presented at the 2009 ABCT conference.

"KinImmerse: Macromolecular VR for NMR ensembles". Jeremy N Block, David J Zielinski, Vincent B Chen, Ian W Davis, E Claire Vinson, Rachael Brady, Jane S Richardson, and David C Richardson. Source Code for Biology and Medicine 2009, 4:3doi:10.1186/1751-0473-4-3 (link)

"VR Visualization as an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Data Exploration Tool for Large Eddy Simulations of Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions". Bill Bohrer, Marcos Longo, David J. Zielinski, Rachael Brady. 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5358: 866-876 (pdf)

"Exploring Semantic Social Networks using Virtual Reality". Harry Halpin, David J Zielinski, Rachael Brady, Glenda Kelly. Published in the Proceedings of the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). Karlsruhe, Germany. 2008. (link)

"Adapting Human Fear Conditioning to a Fully-Immersive Virtual Reality Environment" Nicole C. Huff, Jose Alba Hernandez, David J. Zielinski, Holton S. Thompson, Rachael Brady, and Kevin S. LaBar. presented as a poster at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Conference. Boston, MA. 2008.

"Fear Conditioning in a Fully-Immersive Virtual Reality Environment", Nicole C. Huff, Jose Alba Hernandez, David J. Zielinski, Holton S. Thompson, Rachael Brady, and Kevin S. LaBar. presented as a poster at the Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting. San Francisco, CA. 2008. (pdf)

"Redgraph: Navigating Semantic Web Networks using Virtual Reality", Harry Halpin, David J. Zielinski, Rachael Brady, and Glenda Kelly, presented as a poster at the IEEE Virtual Reality 2008 Conference, Reno NV. Published in the conference proceedings p 257-258. 2008. (pdf)


Exhibitions and Installations:

"Duke Link Wall". Todd Berreth, Steve Feller, Rachael Brady, David Zielinski, Sophia Cui. 2009-present. (link)

"soundSpace". Scott Lindroth, Rachael Brady, Steve Feller, David Zielinski, Elizabeth Flemming. 2008-present. (link)

"Future and History of the Interface".  Harry Halpin. Rachael Brady. David Zielinski. Steve Feller. 2007.  (link)

"MIX TAPEStry". Allison Clark, John Jennings, Crystal Womble, Bill Keniston, Kathleen Harleman, Hank Kaczmarski, Rose Marshack, Nicholas Duchnowski, Abby Watt, Jim Crowell, Camille Goudeseune, Edward Moses, Jeff Carpenter. Rachael Brady, J-Bully, Scott Lindroth, David Stein, Kitty Brawley, Steve Feller, David Zielinski,Kareem Lee, Harry Halpin, Elan Bresslour, John Stang. 2006. (link)

"soundSense". David Brady, Scott Lindroth, John Bower, Joe Donahue, Rachael Brady, Steve Feller, Casey Alt, John Burchett, David Zielinski, Evan Cull,  Zach Pogue, Richard Lucic, Mohan Shankar Christian Liu, Rhazes Spell. 2004. (link)


Pictures and Descriptions of Past Projects