Steven Collins

Steven Collins
Alma materTrinity College Dublin
Known for
  • Havok physics engine
  • Kore Virtual Machine
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
  • Trinity College Dublin
  • Havok
  • King Digital Entertainment
ThesisWavefront tracking for global illumination solutions (1996)

Steven Collins is a computer scientist who co-founded video game physics engine developer Havok and Kore Virtual Machines, makers of a virtual machine for the Lua programming language which later became part of the Havok software suite. Formerly a professor of computer graphics in the Department of Computer Science in Trinity College, Dublin, he co-managed the Graphics Vision and Visualisation Group Research Group.