Tom Cashman

Tom Cashman is a Principal Scientist in the Mixed Reality team at Microsoft. He studied Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, where his PhD on geometric representations for smooth surfaces received the Eurographics PhD Award. Tom’s PhD included an internship at Microsoft Research, working with Andrew Fitzgibbon to answer “What shape are dolphins?” by building 3D morphable models from 2D images. After spending two years as a postdoc at the University of Lugano, he returned to Cambridge to work as a software engineer and technical lead on R&D projects in geometry handling before joining Microsoft in 2015. Tom now leads a team of scientists working on problems in computer vision for Mixed Reality, with a focus on technologies that allow computers to understand people, and to use that understanding to create new possibilities for remote virtual presence.