10 Facts About Hao Li

Hao Li is a computer scientist, innovator, and entrepreneur from Germany, working in the fields of computer graphics and computer vision.

Hao Li is co-founder and CEO of Pinscreen, Inc, as well as associate professor of computer vision at the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence.

Hao Li was previously a Distinguished Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Southern California, and former director of the Vision and Graphics Lab at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies.

Hao Li was named Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair in 2015, and was awarded the Google Faculty Research Award and the Okawa Foundation Research Grant the same year.

Hao Li is a member of the Global Future Council on Virtual and Augmented Reality of the World Economic Forum.

Hao Li was a visiting researcher at ENSIMAG in 2003, the National University of Singapore in 2006, Stanford University in 2008, and EPFL in 2010.

Hao Li was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University and Princeton University between 2011 and 2012.

Hao Li later joined the computer science department at the University of Southern California as an assistant professor in 2013 and was promoted to associate professor in 2019.

Hao Li has worked on dynamic geometry processing and data-driven techniques for making 3D human digitization and facial animation.

Hao Li appeared as himself in various documentaries on artificial intelligence and deepfakes, including Buzzfeed's Follow This in 2018, CBC's The Fifth Estate in 2018, and iHuman in 2019.