Hao Li
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| Native name | 黎顥 |
| Born |
January 17, 1981 Saarbrücken, West Germany |
| Residence | United States |
| Citizenship | German |
| Alma mater |
ETH Zurich (2010) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2006) |
| Known for | Human Digitization, Facial Performance Capture |
| Awards | TR35 Award |
| Website | www |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Graphics, Computer Vision |
| Institutions | Pinscreen (founder/CEO) University of Southern California (assistant professor) Institute for Creative Technologies (director) |
| Thesis | Animation Reconstruction of Deformable Surfaces (2010) |
| Doctoral advisor | Mark Pauly |
Hao Li (Chinese: 黎顥; pinyin: Lí Hào; born January 17, 1981 in Saarbrücken, West Germany) is a computer scientist, innovator, and entrepreneur from Germany, working in the fields of Computer Graphics and Computer Vision. He is founder and CEO of Pinscreen, Inc., assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, as well as director of the Vision and Graphics Lab at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. He was previously a visiting professor at Weta Digital and a research lead at Industrial Light & Magic / Lucasfilm.
For his contributions in non-rigid shape registration, human digitization, and real-time facial performance capture, Li received the TR35 Award in 2013, recognizing him as one of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35, from the MIT Technology Review. He was named Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair in 2015, and was awarded the Google Faculty Research Award and the Okawa Foundation Research Grant the same year.
Li was born in 1981 in Saarbrücken, Germany (then West Germany). His parents are both Taiwanese immigrants living in Germany. He went to a French-German high school in Saarbrücken and speaks four languages fluently (English, German, French, and Mandarin Chinese). He obtained his Diplom (eq. M.Sc.) in Computer Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (then University of Karlsruhe (TH)) in 2006 and his PhD in Computer Science at ETH Zurich in 2010. He was a visiting researcher at ENSIMAG in 2003, the National University of Singapore in 2006, Stanford University in 2008, and EPFL in 2010. He was also a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University and Princeton University between 2011 and 2012.
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