Richard (Hao) Zhang
About Richard (Hao) Zhang
Also Known As
- Hao Zhang
Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley
- Simon Fraser University
Bio
SIGGRAPH 2025
I am a Full Professor in the School of Computing Science at SFU and I have also been an Amazon Scholar since November 2021. I am an IEEE Fellow (see SFU news coverage) and hold a Distinguished University Professorship. I obtained my Ph.D. from the Dynamic Graphics Project (DGP) at the University of Toronto, and MMath and BMath degrees from the University of Waterloo. I direct the GrUVI (Graphics U Vision) Lab, one of the top places in the world to conduct computer graphics and computer vision research. My research is in computer graphics and more broadly, visual computing, with special interests in geometric modeling, shape analysis, 3D vision, geometric deep learning, and computational design and fabrication. I have published more than 180 papers on these topics, including 65+ articles in SIGGRAPH (+Asia) and ACM Trans. on Graphics (TOG), the top venue in computer graphics, and I have an Erdös number of 3. My research has been sponsored by Adobe, Autodesk, Boeing, Google, Huawei, MITACS, and NSERC. I am privileged to have worked with many excellent students and postdocs. As of 2022, twelve of them are working as professors themselves. Awards and honours won by my current and past students include the Alain Fournier Best Graphics Thesis Award, Asia Graphics Young Researcher Award, National Science Fund for Outstanding and Excellent Young Scholars in China (2) Azrieli Postdoc Fellowship, winners/finalists of Google, NVidia and Adobe PhD Fellowships, as well as CVPR 2020 Best Student Paper Award and Best Paper Award at SGP 2008. Major companies where my students are working or have worked at include Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Bytedance, EA, Google, Huawei, Meta (formerly Facebook), Microsoft, NVidia, and Snap. In my spare time, I play badminton regularly, run about 5-10K per week, ski on blue/black runs, and occasionally come up with cool puzzles to “challenge” prospective grad students.
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2013
Hao (Richard) Zhang is an associate professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada. His research interests include geometry processing, shape analysis, and computer graphics.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2009
Richard Hao Zhang co-directs the Graphics, Usability, and Visualization Lab at Simon Fraser University, Canada, where he has been an assistant professor in the School of Computing Science since 2003. He received his PhD.from the Dynamic Graphics Project (DGP), Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto in 2003 and MMath and BMath degrees from the University of Waterloo. His research interests are geometry processing and computer graphics. Recently, he served on the program committees of Eurographics 2009, SIAM/ACM GPM 2009, Pacific Graphics 2009, and SGP 2009. He was a winner of the Best Paper Award at SGP 2008.
Awards and Recognition
- ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member, inducted in 2025
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Conference Contributions
Learning
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Courses
Technical Papers
Sessions Moderated
- “Screened Poisson-Surface Reconstruction” by Kazhdan and Hoppe
- “A Benchmark for Surface Reconstruction” by Berger, Levine, Nonato and Taubin
- “Dense scene reconstruction with points of interest” by Zhou and Koltun
- “Scalable real-time volumetric surface reconstruction” by Chen, Bautembach and Izadi
Other Information
Roles
- ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member
- Course Presenter
- Technical Paper Moderator
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Technical Papers Organizing Committee Member
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