Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, Director of the Vision and Graphics Laboratory at the USC Institute of Creative Technologies, and CEO of Pinscreen, a Los Angeles-based startup that creates photorealistic avatars accessible to consumers. He is known for his seminal work in non-rigid shape alignment, real-time facial performance capture, hair scanning, and full body dynamic capture. His work in facial animation was the foundation of Animoji on Apple's iPhone X. Hao Li worked at Weta Digital, collaborated on the creation of Paul Walker's digital re-enactment technology in the film Fast & Furious and was a research leader at Industrial Light & Magic / Lucasfilm. Elected one of the most important young innovators by MIT Technology Review in 2013, he 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 #1 in the top 10 computer graphics searches in the past five years by Microsoft Academic.