Simon Yuen is director of graphics and AI at NVIDIA where he leads the digital human efforts with the goal of developing new character technology and deep learning-based solutions that allow new and more efficient ways of creating high-quality digital characters. Before NVIDIA, Simon spent more than 21 years in the visual effects industry, straddling both the art and technology sides of the problem at many studios, including Method Studios, Digital Domain, Sony Pictures Imageworks, DreamWorks, Blizzard Entertainment, and others, building teams and technologies that push the envelope of photorealistic digital character creation.