Before joining Google in 2011, he was an Research Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC), a philanthropically endowed academic institute on the campus of the University of Chicago. From 2008-2010, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supported in part by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. He received the BSc degree in computer science from the University of British Columbia in 2000, and the MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Toronto in 2002 and 2008, respectively. In 2006, he received an honorable mention for the Longuet-Higgins Best Paper Award at the European Conference on Computer Vision. He is the recipient of the Alain Fournier Award for the top Canadian dissertation in computer graphics in 2008. http://people.csail.mit.edu/hasinoff/