Wei-Chiu Ma is an assistant professor of computer science at Cornell University. His research lies at the intersection of 3D/4D computer vision and robotics. He is interested in building AI systems that can understand, reconstruct, and re-simulate our dynamic world, and leveraging these capabilities to enable more robust autonomous systems or advanced entertainment applications.

Steve Marschner is a professor of computer science, and currently serves as the associate dean for research in the Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information science. His research and teaching are in computer graphics and vision, centered around how optics and mechanics determine the appearance of materials, with interests in realistic rendering, material models (optical and mechanical), appearance capture, simulation, and computational photography. Some questions that run through his work are “How can we get objects to appear to be made from exactly the right kind of material?” and “How can we cleverly use cameras to help us measure the information we need to make great images?” Marschner received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1998, and held research positions at HP Laboratories, Microsoft Research, and Stanford University before he rejoined Cornell in 2002. He is also a part-time research scientist at NVIDIA Research. He is an ACM Fellow and member of the SIGGRAPH Academy, and has received a Sloan Research Fellow, an NSF CAREER Award, and an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Technical Achievement Award.

David S. Matteson is a professor of statistics and data science at Cornell University and director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences. He is also director of graduate studies in data science, and founding executive committee member for the Cornell Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society. His research centers on statistical methods for modeling complex human and natural processes and systems, with expertise in dynamic, spatial, functional, and network data science and machine learning. He received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, the Chancellor’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities from the State University of New York, the inaugural Ann S. Bowers Research Excellence Award, Faculty Research Awards from the Xerox/PARC Foundation and LinkedIn, and is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). He has served as lead PI and director for several National Science Foundation-funded collaborative institutes, and he founded and serves as editor-in-chief for the new open access ASA journal Data Science in Science.