Iain Matthews is a Principal Scientist at Epic Games. His research interests include faces, speech, virtual humans, character animation, performance-driven animation, computer vision, tracking, lighting estimation, vision for graphics, data-driven and machine learning. Iain received a BEng degree in electronic engineering and a PhD in computer vision from the University of East Anglia. He then joined Carnegie Mellon University, first as a post-doctoral fellow then as faculty in the Robotics Institute. In 2006 he spent two years at Weta Digital creating the facial motion capture system for the movies Avatar and Tintin, and was awarded a Scientific and Engineering Award (technical Oscar) for this work in 2017. He joined the newly formed Disney Research Pittsburgh in 2008 to lead the computer vision group. In 2013 he became the Associate Director of Disney Research Pittsburgh. Iain holds an adjunct faculty appointment in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and an Honorary Professor position at the University of East Anglia. He has published over 100 academic papers and has over two dozen awarded patents.