David Chu

Spatial Computing and XR, NVIDIA

David Chu is VP of Spatial Computing and XR at NVIDIA, where he is bringing accelerated computing to spatial computing. Formerly, he was VP of Engineering at Magic Leap, where he led teams on perception, deep learning and immersion for AR. Prior to that, David was at Google where he worked on AR and VR for headsets, smartphone and glasses, as well as cloud services, edge computing and cloud gaming. Before that, David was faculty at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and a staff member at Microsoft Research. David’s work has received awards such as Best of CES, Best Papers in MobiSys, and Best Demos in MobiSys and SenSys. He has served as PC Chair for ISMAR and NetGames, and General Chair of HotMobile. His individual work has appeared in such places as CNBC, Fast Company, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, GameSpot, Ars Technia, Slashdot, The Verge, Engadget, Yahoo and Wired.