Kevin Ponto

Kevin Ponto is the V.P. of Strategy at Gistify.34 He has a diverse background spanning technology, design, and academia. Ponto has held various leadership positions in different organizations, including Head of Design and Strategy, Director of Design, and Co-Founder.3 He has also worked with companies such as Riviera Nexus, BRD, The Human Effort, Inc., ELC, and The Okori Group.

In addition to his corporate roles, Kevin Ponto is an associate professor in the Design Studies department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is affiliated with the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery in the Virtual Environments Group.2 His academic research focuses on virtual and mixed reality, particularly in visualizing and rendering complex environments.12

Ponto's educational background includes computer engineering and a program called Arts Computation Engineering at UC-Irvine, which combined art, computer science, and engineering.2 This interdisciplinary background has shaped his approach to teaching and problem-solving in his professional career.

His work has involved various innovative projects, including:

1. Collaborating with art historians to find a lost da Vinci painting in Florence, Italy
2. Working on a National Geographic project to locate the lost tomb of Genghis Khan in Mongolia
3. Developing virtual reality applications for crime scene investigation
4. Creating visualization tools for shipwreck reconstructions with the National Park Service

Ponto's expertise lies in bridging the gap between science, art, and technology, with a focus on improving data rendering and visualization methods for virtual and mixed reality applications.2