Shahram Izadi

Shahram Izadi is a computer scientist known for his work on Augmented Reality, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction. He is currently at Google as a senior director of engineering where he is reported to be working on an augmented reality headset while also managing Google's ARCore software toolkit.
At Microsoft, Izadi was a director of an R&D team and worked on Microsoft Holoportation, a real-time holographic communication system. He appears in a YouTube video, where he communicates with a hologram of his daughter using a Microsoft Hololens. In 2020, Microsoft launched Holoportation capabilities as part of Microsoft Mesh.
At Microsoft, Izadi also worked on Kinect, Microsoft Hololens, Microsoft's Surface computers, Microsoft Touch Mouse, Kinect for Windows In 2016, it was reported that Izadi left Microsoft to form a stealth startup called PerceptiveIO with Jefferson Han. PerceptiveIO was reported to have been acquired by Google in 2018.
Izadi has made significant contributions to academic research publishing highly cited papers on computer vision, specifically 3D reconstruction, depth estimation, real-time tracking and new types of sensors .
* His work on Kinect Fusion received the Best Paper Award at IEE ISMAR in 2011, the lasting impact award at ACM UIST 2021 and lasting impact award at IEE ISMAR 2021. It was launched as part of Kinect for Windows.
* He received a TR35 award for his work on natural user interfaces and surface computing.
* He received the best paper award at ACM UIST 2007, ACM UIST 2008 and ACM UIST 2009 for his work on natural user interfaces and surface computing.

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