James Oliverio has served as Professor and Director of the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida since January 2001. Oliverio is internationally known as a creative artist, educator and producer, and is a frequent keynote speaker and consultant to digital media, industry and education programs. He has over twenty years of experience in the film and electronic media industry, working with directors, producers, animators, vendors and production executives. He also holds five Emmy Awards from the Atlanta chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
(1985-1998) along with numerous national grants and symphonic commissions. Oliverio has worked with cultural and research institutions around the world to create the Digital Worlds partnership, most recently evidenced in a specially-commissioned piece for SIGGRAPH 2005 entitled "In Common Time'. Before coming to the University of Florida, Oliverio served at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University.