Jan Kautz is Vice President of Learning and Perception Research at NVIDIA. He and his team pursue fundamental research in the areas of computer vision and deep learning, including visual perception, geometric vision, generative models, and efficient deep learning. Their work has been given various awards and has been regularly featured in the media. Before joining NVIDIA in 2013, Jan was a tenured faculty member at University College London. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (1999), an MMath from the University of Waterloo (1999), received his PhD from the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (2003), and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003-2006). Jan has chaired numerous conferences (Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2007, IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray-Tracing 2008, Pacific Graphics 2011, CVMP 2012, Eurographics 2014) and has served on several editorial boards (ACM Transactions on Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, The Visual Computer, Computer Graphics Forum, International Journal of Image and Graphics). He is a member of ACM and IEEE.