Doug is the Senior Director of Software R&D at Digital Domain. During his long (25+ years!) tenure at Digital Domain, he’s worked on a myriad of projects: a computer vision toolkit that won a Sci/Tech Academy Award (1998), a motion capture editing suite, a couple of fluid simulation packages (which led to another Sci/Tech Award in 2007) and is currently fascinated with incorporating machine learning techniques into visual effects, especially character animation. He’s been the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Graphics Tools (2006-2011) and is the chair of the Academy’s Sci/Tech Awards committee (2018) and a member of the Academy’s Sci/Tech Council. This all started with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Ohio State University way back in 1992.