Zhaoming Xie is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, working with Professor Karen Liu. He finished his PhD degree in computer science at the University of British Columbia, advised by Professor Michiel van de Panne. He completed his BEng in Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and MS in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also did internships with NVIDIA, Intel and Electronic Arts. His research focuses on reinforcement learning for robotics and physics-based character animation.