Dr. Zhi-Dong Xiao is currently a Principal Academic and the Programme Leader of BA(Hons) Computer Visualisation and Animation programme at National Centre for Computer Animation, Faculty of Media and Communication. Dr. Xiao's research interests are in the areas of Motion Capture, Machine Learning, Motion synthesis, Crowd Simulation, Physics-based simulation, Image Processing, Biomechanics, Virtual Reality and Robotics. Dr. Xiao has supervised six PhD students and three of them have successfully completed their research degrees. Working as principal investigator, Dr. Xiao has developed various enterprise activities. Dr. Xiao had successfully secured and completed a few commercial projects of 3D animation production and motion capture services for companies from China and in the UK. Working as co-investigator, Dr. Xiao has helped the team to secure and complete various research council funded projects.