Assistant Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia

Dr. Baining Guo is Assistant Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia, where he also serves as the head of the graphics lab. Prior to joining Microsoft in 1999, Dr. Guo was a senior staff researcher with the Microcomputer Research Labs of Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, California. Dr. Guo received Ph.D. and M.S. from Cornell University and B.S. from Beijing University.

Dr. Guo has published extensively in computer graphics and visualization, in the areas of texture and reflectance modeling, texture mapping, translucent surface appearance, real-time rendering, and geometry modeling. He is Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. He is also on the editorial boards of Computer and Graphics and IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. He has served as a member of international program committees of most major graphics conferences, including ACM Siggraph, IEEE Visualization, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, Pacific Graphics, ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, and ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling. Dr. Guo has been granted over 30 US patents.