Hao (Richard) Zhang is a full professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada. Currently, he holds a Distinguished University Professorship (2020-25), and is an Amazon Scholar. He has also been a visiting professor at Stanford University, Shenzhen University, and the Beijing Film Academy. Richard obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, and MMath and BMath degrees from the University of Waterloo, all in computer science. He directs the GrUVi (Graphics U Vision) lab at SFU. His research is in computer graphics and visual computing with special interests in geometric modeling, shape analysis, 3D vision, geometric deep learning, as well as computational design and fabrication. He has published more than 170 papers on these topics, including 60+ articles in SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, and ACM Trans. on Graphics, the most prestigious venue in computer graphics, as well as four US patents. Methods from three of his papers on geometry processing have been adopted by CGAL, the open-source Computational Geometry Algorithms Library.

Richard is currently on the editorial board of ACM Trans. on Graphics and he served as an editor-in-chief for Computer Graphics Forum, an associate editor-in-chief for IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (CG&A), and an associate editor for IEEE TVCG, Graphical Models, among others. He has served on the program committees of all major computer graphics conferences and is SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 course chair, a paper co-chair for SGP 2013, GI 2015, and CGI 2018, and a conference chair for International Geometry Summit 2019.