Presenter

Koki Nagano is a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research. He works at the intersection of Graphics, Vision and AI with focus on digital humans and 3D generative models. His work on skin microgeometry synthesis has helped create digital characters in Hollywood blockbuster movies such as “Ready Player One” and “Blade Runner 2049”. His research on accessible photorealistic human digitization has been shown in places including World Economic Forum, TED, and won the “Best-in-Show” award at SIGGRAPH 2021. He also collaborates with DARPA and top forensics experts on topics to combat visual mis/disinformation, such as deepfakes. He obtained his PhD from the University of Southern California advised by Dr. Paul Debevec. He previously worked for Pinscreen, and interned at Meta Reality Labs and Weta Digital.