Pedro V. Sander received B.S. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University, and S.M. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University. He was staff member of the Application Research Group of ATI Research. Since 2006, he has been member of Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST, where he is currently Associate Professor. He has served in the ACM SIGGRAPH and ACM SIGGRAPH Asia paper committees, and chaired the Courses program for ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2011.