Organizers

Josef Spjut

Research Scientist, NVIDIA

Josef Spjut is a Research Scientist at NVIDIA focusing on esports, where he helped realize NVIDIA's low-latency Reflex displays. His love of esports led to his doctoral work on ray-tracing hardware at the University of Utah. He was Games Focus Area Chair for SIGGRAPH 2023, and previously spent 3 years as a Visiting Professor in the department of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College.

Benjamin Watson

Associate Professor, North Carolina State University
Director, Visual Experience Lab

Benjamin Watson is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University, where he directs the multidisciplinary Visual Experience Lab. His work has long focused on temporal concerns in computer graphics rendering. He has organized several esports workshops, and chaired the Graphics Interfaces and ACM I3D conferences (most recently in 2025). He is an ACM and senior IEEE member, with a doctorate from Georgia Tech's Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center.