Presenter

Sofien Bouaziz is a staff research scientist at Google. Prior to Google, he was a principal research scientist at Apple where he designed the face tracking algorithm powering the iPhone X. Sofien completed his PhD degree at EPFL in 2015. His thesis was awarded the 2016 SIGGRAPH outstanding doctoral dissertation award honorable mention, the 2015 ETHZ Fritz Kutter PhD thesis award, and the 2015 EPFL Patrick Denantes PhD award honorable mention. He also received the 2018 Eurographics Young Researcher Award. In 2012, Sofien co-founded faceshift AG, an EPFL spin-off that brought high-quality markerless facial motion capture to the consumer market.