Hao is CEO of Pinscreen and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, and was previously at Weta Digital, Industrial Light & Magic / Lucasfilm, Columbia University, Princeton University, Stanford University, and ETH Zurich. He was named one of the world’s top 35 innovators by MIT Technology Review in 2013 and was awarded the Okawa Foundation Research Grant and the Google Faculty Research Award in 2015.