Sofiya Kornienko
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSofiya Kornienko is an award-winning visual journalist and animation director blending nine years of professional storytelling with technical curiosity in programming, math and physics. Based in Boston, she leads her comics journalism project FREE TO BROWSE while founding nienko comics & animation and teaching experimental Software Lab courses at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. Her background spans broadcast reporting, art direction and motion design for outlets like Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, grounded in an interdisciplinary education from St. Petersburg State University, University of Amsterdam and ongoing MFA work in Visual Narrative. Comfortable coding in JavaScript, Processing and Python, she applies computational tools and machine-learning curiosity to create data-driven visual narratives and physics/math visualizations. Colleagues describe her as a risk-taking creative educator who translates complex research into approachable animated stories and comics.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Visual Narrative, Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Visual Narrative at Boston UniversityScandinavian Studies, Scandinavian Studies at Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern DenmarkMA, Moving Image, department of Media and Culture, MA, Moving Image, department of Media and Culture at University of AmsterdamAnimation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects, Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects at School of MotionCertificate, VISUAL STORYTELLING & COMIC ARTS, Certificate, VISUAL STORYTELLING & COMIC ARTS at Massachusetts College of Art and DesignSpecialist, English Linguistics and Translation, Specialist, English Linguistics and Translation at Saint Petersburg State UniversityEconomics for Journalism, Economics for Journalism at Georgetown University
Github Skills (44)
youtube10
unity3d8
mono8
il2cpp8
equals8
flappy-bird-clone8
monte-carlo-tree-search6
xna6
javascript6
python5
simulation5
speech4
machine-learning4
synthesis4
solve4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
simon-tiger/Pool_Pi
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
The number of collisions between two objects equals a number of digits of Pi
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 24 days
raspberry-piequalsdigitscollisions
simon-tiger/times_tables
May 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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