Taku Komura

Biography:

Taku Komura is a Professor of Computer Graphics at the University of Hong Kong, leading the Computer Graphics and Visualization Lab. His research interests include character animation, physical simulation, and machine learning for animation synthesis. Previously, he held positions at the University of Edinburgh, City University of Hong Kong, and RIKEN. Komura earned his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Tokyo. His accolades include the Royal Society Industry Fellowship (2014) and the Google AR/VR Research Award (2017). In 2024, he was ranked 15th in the AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars list in Computer Graphics.