Zhigang Deng is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston and the Director of UH Computer Graphics and Interactive Media Lab (CGIM). His research interests include Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, Interactive Media and Gaming, and Human Computer Interaction. He is a member of IEEE Computer Society, ACM, and ACM SIGGRAPH. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at University of Southern California in May 2006. He also received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from Xiamen University, China in 1997, and his M.S. in Computer Science from Peking University in 2000.