Andrea Tagliasacchi is a staff research scientist at Google Brain and an adjunct faculty in the computer science department at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on 3D perception, which lies at the intersection of computer vision, computer graphics and machine learning. In 2018, he was invited to join Google Daydream as a visiting faculty and eventually joined Google full time in 2019. Before joining Google, he was an assistant professor at the University of Victoria (2015-2017), where he held the Industrial Research Chair in 3D Sensing. His alma mater include EPFL (postdoc) SFU (PhD, NSERC Alexander Graham Bell fellow) and Politecnico di Milano (MSc, gold medalist). His research has won several awards including the CVPR 2021 best student paper award and the SGP 2015 best paper award.