Andrea Tagliasacchi is an assistant professor at the University of Victoria (Canada) where he holds the Industrial Research Chair in 3D Sensing. Before joining UVic, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Graphics/Geometry Laboratory at EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne). He obtained his PhD from Simon Fraser University as an NSERC Alexander Graham Bell scholar, where he worked on digital geometry processing from incomplete data. He received his MSc (cum laude, gold medalist) in digital signal processing from Politecnico di Milano (Italy). His core research interests are real-time modeling and registration, with applications to VR/AR.