James Tompkin is the John E. Savage Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. He received an MSci degree in computer science from King’s College London in 2006, and an EngD degree in visual computing from University College London in 2012. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics (2012--2014), and at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (2014--2016). His research applies graphics, vision, and interaction to create new visual computing tools and experiences. He co-organized the 2015 SIGGRAPH course on User-Centric Computational Videography and the 2017 SIGGRAPH course on Video for Virtual Reality.