CraigDonner

Bio:

I was always fascinated by the appearance of the world, and later researched and created tools for acquiring appearance characteristics as well as more general light transport and rendering methods. In 2012, I joined Google, and have worked on everything from Google Earth, to Cardboard, Virtual Reality, and Daydream. Over the years I've built small systems, tools and also rolled out Google-scale infrastructure, and enabled research in journals such as Nature. I've led teams as small as a handful and as large as many dozens. At the moment, I direct the engineering of DeepMind's Science group in London, UK.

Before Google, I ran my own shop called Leolux that created custom rendering software and tools for the realistic rendering of biological materials. Before that, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computer Graphics group at Columbia University, with Professor Ravi Ramamoorthi, from Fall 2007 through Fall 2009. Before joining the lab at Columbia, I was a postdoc in the Graphics group of the University of California, San Diego, where I also did my Ph.D. under Professor Henrik Wann Jensen.