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Netflix Taps Google, USC Researcher Paul Debevec to Lead VFX, Graphics R&D
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorPaul Debevec, a longtime graphics researcher at USC and a recent member of the Google Research team, has joined Netflix as director of research, a newly created role on the streamer’s Data Science and Engineering team.Debevec will oversee R&D around new technologies in computer vision, computer graphics and machine learning with applications across many areas of production, including VFX, virtual production and animation.