Ladislav Kavan

Ladislav Kavan is a highly experienced professional in the field of computer graphics and research, currently serving as a Research Scientist at Meta since November 2020 and an Associate Professor at the University of Utah since July 2019. Kavan has held notable positions such as Research Scientist at Disney Interactive Studios and Research Engineer at Epic Games. Academic roles include Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Utah, with prior experience at ETH Zurich as a Senior Researcher in Olga Sorkine's Interactive Geometry Lab. Ladislav's career began with a Research Assistant position at the J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, followed by various research fellowships, including work on scalable crowd animation and rendering at Trinity College Dublin. Kavan earned a PhD in Computer Graphics from the Czech Technical University in Prague and an Mgr. in Computer Science from Charles University in Prague.