Jan 2026 – Present · 5 mos · Hybrid

• Elected position on the Board of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences representing the Science and Technology Peer Group.

Jan 2023 – Feb 2026 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Los Angeles, California, United States · On-site

• Research Leader in Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Visual Effects, and Virtual Production

Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Jul 2020 – Jun 2021 · 11 mos

Jun 2016 – Jul 2020 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• GoogleVR Daydream Virtual Reality Team Member

Jun 2016 – Present · 10 yrs

• Supervising Graduate Research in Computer Graphics for the Viterbi School of Engineering at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Apr 2014 – Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Coordinating the visual activities of the USC ICT Graphics Lab, Art group, and Virtual Human groups, improving pipelines for creating and driving realistic digital characters, and overseeing the continued adoption of ICT technologies within the simulation, interactive entertainment, animation, visual effects, and Army/DoD customer base.

Mar 2011 – Jun 2016 · 5 yrs 3 mos

• Teaching Special Topics Computer Graphics, Ph.D Student advising, Computer Graphics Research

May 2007 – Mar 2014 · 6 yrs 10 mos

• Advise and lead on instutional computer graphics efforts
• Lead the institute's computer graphics research group
• Conduct research projects and outside collaborations in computer graphics

May 2000 – Apr 2007 · 6 yrs 11 mos

• Computer graphics research, software design, laboratory management

Aug 2014 – Jul 2018 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Hollywood, California, USA

• Organizational leadership of activities of 25-member Academy working group with educational mission to research and disseminate information and analyses on the impact of new technologies to the production of filmed entertainment.
• http://www.oscars.org/learn/science-technology

Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 · 0 mo

• Research and Development consulting on lighting acquisition, facial scanning, and digitizing surface reflectance properties

Jul 2011 – Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Elected position to assist ACM SIGGRAPH President and Executive Committee on strategy for organization, oversee SIGGRAPH Awards committees

Jul 2009 – Jun 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Part of the main strategic team of the world's premiere computer graphics professional society.

Jan 2009 – Jun 2016 · 7 yrs 5 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Consulting on facial capture systems and virtual reality

Jan 2008 – Present · 18 yrs 5 mos · Stuttgart Area, Germany

• Help select speakers and design programs and panels.

Jan 2008 – Apr 2016 · 8 yrs 3 mos

• Consultation on reflectance acquisition apparatus design and implementation

Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 · 2 yrs

• Advised on reflectance and geometry scanning systems

Mar 2006 – Oct 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Organized world's premier computer graphics animation festival, assembled world-class jury to select from nearly 900 submissions and created the live pre-show event for the Electronic Theater at the San Diego Civic Center.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 · 0 mo

• Selected computer animations for the Electronic Theater and Animation Theaters at SIGGRAPH 2004

Jan 1997 – Apr 2000 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Computer vision and computer graphics research in image-based modeling, rendering, and lighting.

May 1994 – Dec 1999 · 5 yrs 7 mos

• Research in photographic dimensionalization and interactive art.