Presenter

Derek Bradley is a Director of Research & Development at DisneyResearch|Studios in Zurich, Switzerland, and he leads the Digital Humans research team. He is interested in various problems that involve creating digital humans, including digital scanning, facial performance capture, facial animation, and visual effects for films. His team has been creating high quality digital humans for over a decade, and his work has driven the visual effects in over 30 Hollywood feature films and TV shows, including blockbusters like Avengers, Aladdin and The Jungle Book. In 2019, he won a Sci-Tech Oscar for the Medusa Performance Capture System. Derek received his Bachelors Degree and Masters Degree in Computer Science from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and a PhD Degree from The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. For more information, please visit https://people.inf.ethz.ch/~bradleyd/.