Changxi Zheng is currently an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University with the Best Dissertation Award and his B.S. from Shanghai Jiaotong University. Changxi's research area is computer graphics, with a particular focus on simulation methods for complex physical systems, the computational models for audiovisual processing, computational design of structures and materials, and fundamental algorithms in machine learning. The technologies developed by his group have been used in several industries, and his work has been profiled in major media outlets, including NPR, BBC, Forbes, WIRED, Popular Science, and many others. He has won an NSF CAREER Award, and was named one of Forbes’ “30 under 30” in science and healthcare in 2013. He received the Best Paper Awards from 2016 SCA, 2017 UIST, 2019 ACM Multimedia, among others.