Chris Cook is a Senior Software Engineer in Photo Editing at Canva, where he develops innovative photography tools. He specializes in color perception, computational color science, and image processing. Over the years, Chris has created research tools to study the link between light spectra and color, and made key advances in bringing spectral rendering to Blender’s Cycles rendering engine. He was a foundational contributor to Canva’s photo editing capabilities, and then led a team creating novel photo effects for two years, focusing on simplifying and enhancing existing photo editing tools and workflows through unique graphics and ML techniques.