Karan Singh is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. His research interests lie at the intersection of art, Computer Graphics (CG) and Human Computer Interaction (HCI): spanning interactive modeling and animation, visual perception, visualization and Augmented/Virtual Reality. Karan has been a research and development lead on the technical Oscar (2003) winning modeling and animation system Maya. He has co-founded multiple companies, most recently JALI Research. He was the R&D Director for the 2005 Oscar winning animated short film Ryan. His recent research in facial animation has been used on characters in AAA games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and films like Avatar: the way of water (Best VFX Oscar 2023).