Prof. Sumner is the Director of Research and Development at the Walt Disney Studios and an Adjunct Professor at ETH Zurich. He received a B.S. degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He spent three years as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich before joining Disney. At Disney, Prof. Sumner is part of the leadership structure of Disney Research Studios and heads the lab's research in animation and games. His group strives to bypass technical barriers in animation and game production pipelines with new algorithms that expand the designer’s creative toolbox in terms of depiction, movement, deformation, stylization, control, and efficiency. At ETH, Prof. Sumner teaches a course called the Game Programming Laboratory in which students from ETH and the Zurich University of the Arts work in small teams to design and implement novel video games. In 2015, Prof. Sumner founded the ETH Game Technology Center, which explores the unique way game technology can advance ETH’s mission in research, education, and outreach. Prof. Sumner was selected as one of Next Reality’s AR Software Development Leaders of 2018 and his recent speaker engagements include TEDxZurich, World Web Forum, Zurich Game Show, World VR Forum, Global Talent Summit, and Zurich Meets Hong Kong. He was also featured on BBC Click and Ars Technica for his work on Unfolding the 8-Bit Era as well as Reuters for his augmented reality research.