Shunsuke Saito is a Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs Research in Pittsburgh, where he leads the effort on next generation digital humans. He obtained his PhD degree at the University of Southern California. Prior to USC, he was a Visiting Researcher at University of Pennsylvania in 2014. He obtained his BE (2013), ME (2014) in Applied Physics at Waseda University. His research lies in the intersection of computer graphics, computer vision and machine learning, especially centered around digital human, 3D reconstruction, and performance capture. His work has been published in SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, NeurIPS, ECCV, ICCV and CVPR, three of which have been nominated for CVPR Best Paper Award (2019, 2021) and ECCV Best Paper Award (2024). His real-time volumetric teleportation work also won Best in Show award in SIGGRAPH 2020 Real-time Live!

Paul Debevec is the chief research officer at Eyeline Studios and adjunct research professor at the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. He obtained is PhD degree at UC Berkeley, which laid the foundation for an Acadamy Award winning VFX technique. At USC ICT Debevec has led the development of several Light Stage systems that capture and simulate how people and objects appear under real-world illumination, a technique that found countless applications in Hollywood movies. He received ACM SIGGRAPH's first Significant New Researcher Award in 2001 and in 2005 he received a Gilbreth Lectureship from the National Academy of Engineering. At Eyeline Studios Debevec continues to push the boundaries of VFX and relightable virtual avatars.

Shalini De Mello is a Director of Research, New Experiences and a Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA, where she leads the AI-Mediated Reality and Interaction Research Group. Prior to this, she was a Distinguished Research Scientist in the Learning and Perception Research Group at NVIDIA from 2013 - 2023. Her research interests are in AI, computer vision, computer graphics and digital humans. Her research focuses on using AI to re-imagine interactions between humans, and between humans and machines. She has co-authored scores of peer-reviewed publications and patents, and serves on the program committees of all major AI conferences. Her inventions have been incorporated into several NVIDIA AI products, including DriveIX, Maxine and the TAO Toolkit. She received her Doctoral and Master’s degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Yao Feng is currently a Postdoc at Stanford University, working with Karen Liu, Jennifer Hicks, and Scott L. Delp. She received her Ph.D. from ETH Zürich and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, under the supervision of Michael J. Black and Marc Pollefeys. She also spent a year as a research scientist at Meshcapade. Her research focuses on large-scale capture and understanding of digital humans, with applications spanning computer vision, computer graphics, biomechanics, and robotics. She has received several recognitions, including an Honorable Mention for the Eurographics PhD Award, and was named an EECS Rising Star and a WiGRAPH Rising Star in Computer Graphics.

Stefanos Zafeiriou is a Professor of Machine Learning and Computer Vision with the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. From 2016 to 2020, he was a Distinguishing Research Fellow with the University of Oulu, Finland, under Finish Distinguishing Professor Program. Prof. Zafeiriou is an EPSRC Early Career Research Fellow. He was a recipient of the Prestigious Junior Research Fellowships from Imperial College London in 2011, the President’s Medal for Excellence in Research Supervision for 2016, the President’s Medal for Entrepreneurship in 2022, the Google Faculty Research Awards, and the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Machine Learning (ML) Research Award.

Hao Li is the CEO & Co-Founder of Pinscreen, a Los Angeles-based startup that builds the world’s most advanced generative AI technology for AI VFX and Visual Dubbing, as well as a Professor of Computer Vision (tenured) at the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), in Abu Dhabi (UAE), and Director of the MBZUAI Metaverse Center.