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This December, SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 convenes the visionaries redefining computer graphics, AI, and interactive techniques. Under the conference theme Generative Renaissance, our Keynotes will share insights that bridge research, product, and real-world impact. Meet Harry Shum, Council Chairman, HKUST; Jamie Shotton, Chief Scientist, Wayve; and Dr. Chunchao Guo, Head of Hunyuan 3D Generation and World Modeling, Tencent.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Conference Chair

Taku Komura

The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Harry Shum

Council Chairman, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

Keynote Topic: Exploring the Low Altitude Airspace: From Natural Resource to Economic Engine

About Harry Shum: Council Chairman of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Harry Shum was previously Executive Vice President of Microsoft Corporation, responsible for AI and Research until March 2020. He received his PhD in Robotics from School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. He is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM, and an international member of National Academy of Engineering and Royal Academy of Engineering.

Jamie Shotton

Chief Scientist, Wayve

Keynote Topic: Worlds We Make: The Rise of Synthetic Data in AI

About Jamie Shotton: Jamie Shotton is a leader in AI research and development, with a track record of incubating transformative new technologies and experiences from early-stage research to shipping product. He is Chief Scientist at Wayve, building foundation models for embodied intelligence, such as GAIA and LINGO, to enable safe and adaptable autonomous vehicles. Prior to this he was Partner Director of Science at Microsoft and head of the Mixed Reality & AI Labs where he shipped foundational features including body tracking for Kinect and the hand- and eye-tracking that enable HoloLens 2’s instinctual interaction model. He has explored applications of AI in autonomous driving, mixed reality, virtual presence, human-computer interaction, gaming, robotics, and healthcare.

He has received multiple Best Paper and Best Demo awards at top-tier academic conferences, and the Longuet-Higgins Prize test-of-time award at CVPR 2021. His work on Kinect was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering’s gold medal MacRobert Award in 2011, and he shares Microsoft’s Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for 2012 with the Kinect engineering team. In 2014 he received the PAMI Young Researcher Award, and in 2015 the MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 Award. He was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Silver Medal in 2020. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2021.

Dr. Chunchao Guo

Head of Hunyuan 3D Generation and World Modeling, Tencent

Keynote Topic: Crafting 3D Worlds for Intelligent Vision: generation, reconstruction, and interaction

About Dr. Chunchao Guo: Principle Research Scientist at Tencent and the Leader of Hunyuan 3D, Dr. Guo’s research interests focus on 3D generative large models and world models. He has authored and co-authored over 20 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals and top-tier conferences. Additionally, he has secured 20 championships in international technical competitions, and during his doctoral studies, he was awarded the Outstanding Paper Award at the National Conference on Image and Graphics (NCIG).

Dr. Guo has spearheaded his team in developing one of the industry’s pioneering 3D-DiT (3D Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models) large models, which have been deployed across diverse scenarios such as gaming and social media platforms. He also oversaw the release of HunyuanWorld—the first open-source 3D world model of its kind—garnering extensive recognition and attention within the academic and industrial communities.