6^th International Conference and Expo on Computer Graphics & Animation September 25-26, 2019 | Toronto | Ontario | Canada

Newton Lee is CEO of Newton Lee Laboratories LLC, President of the Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships (IFERS), Adjunct professor at Woodbury University’s School of Media, Culture & Design, and Editor-in-Chief of Former ACM Computers in Entertainment(CiE)(2003 to 2018). Previously, he was a Computer Scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, senior producer and engineer at The Walt Disney Company, and research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses. He was founder of Disney Online Technology Forum, creator of Bell Labs’ first-ever commercial AI tool, and inventor of the world’s first annotated multimedia OPAC for the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Lee graduated Summa Cum Laude from Virginia Tech with a B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Science, and he earned a perfect GPA from Vincennes University with an A.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and an honorary doctorate in Computer Science. He is the co-author of Disney Stories: Getting to Digital; author of the Total Information Awareness book series including Facebook Nation and Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity; coauthor/editor of the Digital Da Vinci book series including Computers in Music and Computers in the Arts and Sciences; and Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games.

His research interest includes computer graphics, games, artificial intelligence, information science, and media technology.

Carol Luckhardt Redfield, Ph.D., joined St. Mary’s in 1998 after having been in her industry for more than a dozen years. Including summer jobs at Bell Labs, LLNL and IBM, she worked in artificial intelligence as a Senior Research Engineer at Southwest Research Institute and as a Senior Scientist at Mei Technology Corporation. She has taught mathematics and computer science since 1980 at various universities, including the University of Michigan, University of Texas at San Antonio and St. Philip’s College.

Computer Graphics, Computer Gaming, Artificial Intelligence, E-Learning

He is currently designated Director of Innovation Center for Educational Resources (ICER) and Professor at Kyushu University Library, Research Institute for Information Technology, Cyber Security Center, Kansei Center for Arts and Design, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan.

His research in 3D Graphics and Computer Animation, Human Interface and Virtual Reality, Network Collaboration, Development Technologies for Video Games, Data Broadcast Contents and Educational Materials, and Presentation Technologies in Museums.

Dr Qingde Li received the BSc in mathematics from Beijing Normal University in 1982 and PhD in computer science from the University of Hull in 2002. He has been a Lecturer in Computer science at the University of Hull since 2001. Previously he was a professor and the deputy head of Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Anhui Normal University, China. He was a visiting scholar in the Department of applied Statistics at the University of Leeds from Oct 1990 to May 1992, and in the Department of Computing at the University of Bradford from Sept 1996 to Aug 1997. Before he joined the University of Hull, his research interests were mainly with fuzzy sets and random sets. His most current research interests are in the area of 3D graphics, such as shape modeling, medical image processing and visualization, GPU-based scientific simulation and special graphics effects.

His current research interests are in the areas of computer graphics and mixed reality technology, with a particular focus on high precision geometric modelling of real objects.