Presenter

Maria (Masha) Shugrina is a Senior Research Scientist at the NVIDIA Spatial Intelligence Lab, where she manages a group focused on creative applications of AI and efforts to accelerate research. Her key research interests are erasing the boundary between 3D captures and interactive applications and enabling AI to work in the interactive loop, enhancing rather than replacing creativity. Masha earned her PhD at the University of Toronto, receiving Canada's Alain Fournier Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Computer Graphics, and her Master's at MIT. She has also worked at Adobe Research as a Research Engineer, and at Google as a Senior Software Engineer.