Born in Hannover, Germany and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, I am a staff software engineer at Walt Disney Animation Studios working on Disney's Hyperion Renderer. As part of the Hyperion team, I've worked on every Disney Animation theatrical release starting from Zootopia. I work and happily live in Burbank, California with my wife, Harmony M. Li, and our family.

My areas of interest cover all things production rendering, including topics such as advanced light transport, renderer architectures, raytracing on interesting hardware, volume rendering, surface appearance, and more.

I previously was a part of Cornell University's Program of Computer Graphics and have also worked at Pixar Animation Studios and Dreamworks Animation. I did my undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where I was part of CG@Penn and a student at The Wharton School.