Nima Kalantari is an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Texas A&M University. He received his doctoral degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to joining Texas A&M, he was a postdoc in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests are at the intersection of computer graphics/vision and machine learning. He is the recipient of NSF CAREER Award and currently serves as an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Graphics.