Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, Director of the Vision and Graphics Lab at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, and CEO of Pinscreen, a Los Angeles-based startup that creates affordable photorealistic avatars for consumers. He is known for his seminal work in non-rigid shape alignment, real-time facial performance capture, hair digitization, and dynamic whole-body capture. His work in facial animation was the basis for Animoji on Apple's iPhone X. Hao Li worked at Weta Digital, collaborated on the creation of the digital reenactment technology for Paul Walker in the Fast & Furious films, and was a research leader at Industrial Light & Magic/Lucasfilm. Named one of the most important young innovators by MIT Technology Review in 2013, he has received the Google Faculty Award, the Okawa Foundation Research Grant, as well as the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair. His work has been ranked number 1 on Microsoft Academic's list of top 10 computer graphics research over the past five years.