Luiz Velho

Luiz Velho is a senior researcher at IMPA – the National Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics – and leader of the VISGRAF Laboratory. A pioneer of Computer Graphics in Brazil, he directed the first Brazilian computer-animated film in 1978 and was a visiting researcher at the National Film Board of Canada in 1982. He was also a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. He holds a master's degree from the MIT Media Lab and a doctorate from the University of Toronto. He worked at Fantastic Animation Machine in New York and at TV Globo in Rio de Janeiro developing 3D graphics systems and visual effects.