Hao Li

Quick Facts

Full Name	Hao Li
Occupation	Computer Scientist
Date Of Birth	Jan 17, 1981(1981-01-17)
Age	43
Country	United States
Birth City	Saarbrücken
Horoscope	Capricorn

Hao Li Biography

Hao Li is one of the most popular and richest Computer Scientist who was born on January 17, 1981 in Saarbrücken, United States. Li was born in 1981, in Saarbrucken (then West Germany). Both his parents are Taiwanese immigrant families living in Germany. He attended a French-German highschool in Saarbrucken, where he learned four languages fluently: English, German, French and Mandarin Chinese. He received his Diplom (eq. M.Sc.) M.Sc. In 2003, he was a visiting researcher in ENSIMAG, Stanford University, Stanford University, and EPFL. Between 2011 and 2012, he was also a postdoctoral fellow of Princeton University and Columbia University.

Li was awarded the TR35 Award by the MIT Technology Review in 2013 for his contributions to non-rigid form registration, human digitization and real-time facial performance recording. In 2015, he was appointed Andrew and Erna Vierbi Early Career Chair. He also received the Okawa Foundation Research Grant and the Google Faculty Research Award. Li was awarded the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award and named to DARPA ISAT Study Group for 2019. He is a member of the Global Future Council on Virtual and Augmented Reality at the World Economic Forum.

Li joined Industrial Light & Magic / Lucasfilm as a research leader to develop next-generation real-time performance capture technology for virtual production. Since 2013, he has been an associate professor in the Computer Science department of the University of Southern California. He spent the summer 2014 as a visiting professor at Weta Digital, helping to advance facial tracking and hair digitization technology for visual effects in Furious 7, and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Pinscreen, Inc., an Artificial Intelligence startup, was founded by him in 2015. It specializes in the creation of photorealistic avatars through advanced machine learning algorithms. He was named director of the Vision and Graphics Lab, USC Institute for Creative Technologies in 2016.

Hao Li Net Worth

Hao Li is one of the richest Computer Scientist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Hao Li 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Hao Li (Chinese Li Hao; pinyin Li Hao; born January 17, 1981 in Saarbrucken in West Germany) is an innovator, computer scientist, and entrepreneur who works in the areas of computer graphics, computer vision, and computer graphics. Pinscreen, Inc. is his company’s founder and CEO. He is also an associate professor of computer science at USC Institute for Creative Technologies. He was previously a visiting professor in Weta Digital, and a research leader at Industrial Light & Magic / Lucasfilm.

His work in dynamic geometry processing, data-driven techniques to make 3D human digitization (and facial animation) accessible to the masses is what makes him most well-known. Li co-created the first performance-driven facial animation system based on depth sensors during his PhD. This paper won the best paper award in the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2009. Later, the team developed a version of this technology that was later sold as Faceshift by Apple Inc. (purchased by Apple Inc. 2015 and incorporated into iPhone X 2017). C-Rad AB uses his technique for deformable registration and it is widely used in hospitals to track tumors during radiation therapy. He introduced a home scanning device that uses a Kinect to convert people into miniature characters or game characters. Artec licensed the technology and released it as Shapify.me, a free software. He was appointed as a visiting professor at Weta Digital in 2014 to create the high- fidelity facial performance recording pipeline that would allow us to recreate the death of actor Paul Walker in Furious 7.

His recent research focuses on combining techniques in Deep Learning and Computer Graphics to facilitate the creation of 3D avatars and to enable true immersive face-to-face communication and telepresence in Virtual Reality. In collaboration with Oculus / Facebook, he developed in 2015, the first facial performance sensing head-mounted display, which allows users to transfer their facial expressions onto their digital avatars while being immersed in a virtual environment. In the same year, he founded the company Pinscreen, Inc. in Los Angeles, which introduced a technology that can generate realistic 3D avatars of a person including the hair from a single photograph. Their innovations include the development of deep neural networks that can infer photorealistic faces and expressions, which has been showcased at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 of the World Economic Forum in Dalian. Due to the ease of generating and manipulating digital faces, Li has been raising public awareness about the threat of manipulated videos such as deepfakes. In 2019, Li and media forensics expert, Hany Farid, from the University of California, Berkeley, released a research paper outlining a new method for spotting deepfakes by analyzing facial expression and movement patterns of a specific person. With the rapid progress in artificial intelligence and computer graphics, Li has predicted that genuine videos and deepfakes will become indistinguishable in as soon as 6 to 12 months, as of September 2019. In January 2020, Li spoke at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2020 in Davos about deepfakes and how they could pose a danger to democracy and vulnerable groups. Li and his team at Pinscreen, Inc. also demonstrated a real-time deepfake technology at the annual meeting, where the faces of celebrities are superimposed onto the participants’ face.

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Hao Ranked on the list of most popular Computer Scientist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Hao Li celebrates birthday on January 17 of every year.