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Hao Li

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Founder at Pinscreen

Los Angeles, California, United States

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About

Hao Li is the CEO and co-founder of Pinscreen, a Los Angeles-based startup developing generative AI technologies for visual effects, dubbing, and digital humans, and serves as Professor, Dean of the Undergraduate Division, and Director of the Metaverse Center at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence. His earlier roles include Distinguished Fellow with the Computer Vision Group at UC Berkeley, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California where he directed the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, research lead at Industrial Light & Magic / Lucasfilm, and postdoctoral fellow at Columbia and Princeton. His research spans computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning, with contributions to real-time 3D facial tracking that informed technologies such as Apple's Animoji and the digital recreation of Pa

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Experience

  1. MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)Dean of Undergraduate Divisioncurrent2025 — presentAbu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
  2. MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)Professorcurrent2024 — presentAbu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
  3. MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)Director of MBZUAI Metaverse Centercurrent2022 — presentAbu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
  4. MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)Associate Professor2022 — 2024Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
  5. PinscreenCEO and Co-Foundercurrent2015 — presentSanta Monica
  6. University of California, BerkeleyDistinguished Fellow2020 — 2022Berkeley, California, United States
  7. University of Southern CaliforniaAssociate Professor2019 — 2020Los Angeles
  8. University of Southern CaliforniaAssistant Professor2013 — 2019Los Angeles
  9. USC Institute for Creative TechnologiesDirector of the Vision and Graphics Lab2016 — 2020Playa Vista
  10. Weta DigitalVisiting Professor2014Wellington, New Zealand
  11. Industrial Light & MagicR&D Engineer2012 — 2013San Francisco Bay Area
  12. Columbia UniversityPostdoctoral Fellow2011 — 2012
  13. Princeton UniversityPostdoctoral Researcher2011 — 2012
  14. C-RAD ABConsultant2010 — 2011
  15. École polytechnique fédérale de LausanneVisiting Postdoctoral Researcher2010 — 2011
  16. ETH ZurichResearch Assistant2006 — 2010
  17. Industrial Light & MagicResearch Intern2009
  18. Stanford UniversityVisiting Researcher2008
  19. National University of SingaporeVisiting Scholar2006

Skills & more

C++53OpenGL44C22LaTeX16Objective-C10OS X6Mac OS X3Computer Graphics99Computer Science99Computer Vision99Modeling44Programming42
+12 moreMachine LearningResearch3DOptimizationImage ProcessingArtificial IntelligenceSimulationsSignal ProcessingAnimationHuman Computer InteractionNumerical AnalysisOptimizations

Languages Chinese · English · French · German

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Who is Hao Li?
Hao Li is the CEO and co-founder of Pinscreen, a Los Angeles-based startup developing generative AI technologies for visual effects, dubbing, and digital humans, and serves as Professor, Dean of the Undergraduate Division, and Director of the Metaverse Center at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence. His earlier roles include Distinguished Fellow with the Computer Vision Group at UC Berkeley, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California where he directed the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, research lead at Industrial Light & Magic / Lucasfilm, and postdoctoral fellow at Columbia and Princeton. His research spans computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning, with contributions to real-time 3D facial tracking that informed technologies such as Apple's Animoji and the digital recreation of Pa
Where does Hao Li work?
Hao Li is Founder of Pinscreen.
What companies did Hao Li found?
Hao Li founded Pinscreen.
Where did Hao Li go to school?
Hao Li studied at ETH Zürich (PhD, Computer Science); Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (MSc, Computer Science); National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble (Computer Science).

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