Executive Team

Andrew Woo, Chief Technology Officer

Andrew Woo's experience in technology research and development spans nearly 20 years. In his role as NGRAIN's Chief Technology Officer, he is responsible for applied research and technology development, product development, professional services engineering, software quality assurance, and intellectual property.

Andrew joined NGRAIN in 2001 as the Director of Engineering. Prior to working with NGRAIN , he was senior R&D Manager at Alias|Wavefront, where he was responsible for award winning 3D graphics products including Mac Sketch!, Studio, and Maya, for which the Alias team won an Academy Award in technical achievement. Andrew holds patents for multiple 3D graphics inventions, and has published over 20 technical papers on the subject of computer graphics, from which ideas have been implemented in products from nVidia, Microsoft and Pixar.

Andrew is an active member in the computer graphics community, and is co-founder of the ACM SIGGRAPH Chapters in Toronto and Vancouver. He is also a member of ACM, IEEE and CIPS. Andrew received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science and Commerce from the University of Toronto, in 1987 and 1989, respectively.