Yajie Zhao currently is a computer scientist at USC Institute for Creative Technologies (USC-ICT). She is also the interim director of ICT Vision and Graphics Lab. Her research interests are high-quality 3D content creation for AR/VR, which including human digitization, performance capturing, and scene reconstruction/understanding. In particular, she is pursuing high-resolution human face/body 3D representation, neural rendering, and human/scene-related applications in VR/AR. She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky in 2017, where she was focus on face/body 3D reconstruction, tracking, and analysis.