David Long

David Long |Eastern Region Governor for a Two-Year Term, 1 January 2022 – 31 December 2023 

David Long is Director of the RIT Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction & Creativity (MAGIC) and MAGIC Spell Studios, a university-wide research and development laboratory and a commercial media production studio.  Long joined the faculty of the School of Film and Animation at Rochester Institute of Technology in 2007, where he also serves as an Associate Professor for the motion picture science program.  His research interests at RIT include designing virtual production workflows and color management, engineering multispectral video capture and display systems, studying variability in human color vision, and modeling sensory perception of motion media.  Prior to RIT, Long worked as a Development Engineer and Imaging Scientist with Eastman Kodak’s Entertainment Imaging Division.  Long earned his BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, an MS in Materials Science from the University of Rochester, and a PhD in Color Science from Rochester Institute of Technology