Keynote Speaker: Takeo Igarashi

Bio: Takeo Igarashi is an associate professor at Computer Science department, the University of Tokyo and the director of JST ERATO Igarashi Design Interface Project. He received Ph.D from the University of Tokyo in 2000. His research interest is in user interface in general and current focus is on interaction techniques for 3D graphics. He is known as the inventor of a sketch-based modeling system called Teddy. He recently received ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 significant new researcher award.