Rob Ray
Board Member
Associate Professor of Design, California State University, San Bernardino
Rob Ray is an artist and Associate Professor of Design at California State University, San Bernardino, where he researches the intersections of site-specific augmented-reality (AR), data visualization, and experimental documentary storytelling. Rob is also a DJ and Station Manager at KDZU, an autofictional radio station broadcasting from Los Angeles, California and Goldfield, Nevada.
Rob was previously a lead designer for ProtoSpace, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s mixed-reality collaboration platform. Rob also led data visualization efforts for fprime, the open-source flight software framework powering NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. He also served as the user interfacing design lead for VITAL, two FDA-approved ventilators developed as part of NASA’s national response to COVID-19. Rob has also been a technical experience designer, building mobile game interfaces at Electronic Arts.
From 1999 to 2008, Rob was the founding curator of DEADTECH, a new-media and interactive electronic arts center in Chicago, IL.