Prof. Yajie Zhao is a Research Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California (USC). She is also the acting director of the Vision and Graphics Lab of USC-ICT. Yajie received her Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2011 and earned her Ph.D. degree in 2017 from the University of Kentucky. Her research interests are high-quality 3D content creation, which includes human digitization, performance capturing, and scene reconstruction/understanding. In particular, Yajie is leading the lab to pursue high-resolution human face/body 3D representation, neural rendering, and human/scene-related applications in VR/AR .