Ziva Dynamics CEO and leadership

James Jacobs is a Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Ziva Dynamics and is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He has worked as Creature TD at Weta Digital, Lead Creature Code Developer at Weta Digital, and Creature Supervisor at Method Studios.

Jernej Barbic is an associate professor of computer science at USC, working in the field of computer graphics and animation. In 2011, MIT Technology Review named him of the Top 35 Innovators under the age of 35 in the world (TR35). Jernej is the author of Vega FEM, an free C/C++ software physics library for deformable object simulation. He received his Ph.D. from CMU, and did postdoctoral research at MIT CSAIL. His research interests include computer graphics, animation, fast physics, special effects for film, medical simulation, FEM deformable objects, haptics, sound simulation, and model reduction and control of nonlinear systems. Jernej is a NSF CAREER Award winner, a Sloan Research Fellow, and holds a Viterbi Early Career Chair position at USC.

James Jacobs is a Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Ziva Dynamics and is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He has worked as Creature TD at Weta Digital, Lead Creature Code Developer at Weta Digital, and Creature Supervisor at Method Studios.

Jernej Barbic is an associate professor of computer science at USC, working in the field of computer graphics and animation. In 2011, MIT Technology Review named him of the Top 35 Innovators under the age of 35 in the world (TR35). Jernej is the author of Vega FEM, an free C/C++ software physics library for deformable object simulation. He received his Ph.D. from CMU, and did postdoctoral research at MIT CSAIL. His research interests include computer graphics, animation, fast physics, special effects for film, medical simulation, FEM deformable objects, haptics, sound simulation, and model reduction and control of nonlinear systems. Jernej is a NSF CAREER Award winner, a Sloan Research Fellow, and holds a Viterbi Early Career Chair position at USC.