Andrew Glassner is a Principal Research Scientist at Weta Digital+Unity.

Glassner served as Papers Chair of SIGGRAPH '94, Founding Editor of the Journal of Computer Graphics Tools, and Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics. Books he wrote or edited include "Principles of Digital Image Synthesis," the "Graphics Gems" series, "An Introduction to Ray Tracing," and "Deep Learning: A Visual Approach." He has written and/or directed several short films, animations, and online internet games. Andrew has given many SIGGRAPH presentations that share fascinating ideas in clear and approachable ways.

Andrew holds a PhD in Computer Science from UNC Chapel Hill.