Making digital humans feel human.

I am a Research Scientist Lead at Meta, where I work on human data collection and modeling toward VR communication that is indistinguishable from reality. For more than fifteen years, my research has explored how computers perceive, reconstruct, and generate people.

My academic work helped establish influential parametric models of the body, face, and hands—including SMPL, FLAME, and MANO, and MHR. In industry, I have led and contributed to work spanning personalized garments, fitness, new shopping experiences, and photorealistic avatars.