Dr. George Baciu is a Professor in the Department of Computing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and a PhD degree in Systems Design Engineering from University of Waterloo. He has been a member of the Waterloo Computer Graphics Lab and the Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence group. He is the founding director of the Graphics and Multimedia Applications and Big Data Visual Analytics Laboratories at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has published extensively and has served as chair of international conference committees such as Pacific Graphics, Virtual Reality Software and Technology, Eurographics, Computer Graphics International, CAD/Graphics, and Computer Animation and Social Agents, Cognitive Informatics. He is also a member of IEEE and ACM.
Dr. George Baciu’s research interests include high performance collision detection, motion synthesis and dynamics of large scale deformable surfaces for virtual clothing, geometric modeling, image processing and scalable micro-surface reconstruction.
