Presenter

Michiel Hagedoorn is a Senior 3D Scientist at SideFX Software. He currently works on ML tools and various ML-related projects. His other work at SideFX includes computational geometry, soft-body dynamics and character FX. Michiel has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Utrecht University and was a post-doc researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. His research areas included computer vision and proximity search. In addition to that, Michiel was a game-engine developer at Digital Extremes, where he worked on real-time physics and game AI. Michiel has been passionate about math, programming and computer graphics from an early age.