Chris Bregler is a Senior Director / Distinguished Scientist at Google DeepMind. He is leading teams in Information Quality, Media Integrity, DeepFakes, Cheapfakes, VFX Tech, AR/VR, Human Pose and Face Analysis & Synthesis with launches in Google Search, Ads, T&S, YouTube, DayDream, Photos, JigSaw, and other product areas.

He received an Academy Award in the Oscars Science and Technology category. He has been named a Sloan Research Fellow, Stanford Joyce Faculty Fellow, and Terman Fellow. He was awarded the IEEE Longuet-Higgins Prize for "Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision that have withstood the test of time", the DAGM Olympus Award for achievements in computer vision and pattern recognition, and numerous awards from the National Science Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Packard Foundation, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Google, U.S. Navy, U.S. Airforce, IARPA, and other sources. Currently he also serves on DARPA ISAT (a group of National Security Experts).

He was a Professor at New York University and Stanford University and has worked for several companies including Hewlett Packard, Interval Research, Disney Feature Animation, LucasFilm's ILM, Facebook's Oculus, and the New York Times. He's been the executive producer of squid-ball.com, which required building the world's largest real-time motion capture volume, and a massive multi-player motion game holding several world records in The Motion Capture Society. He has been active in the visual effects industry, for example, as the lead developer of ILM's Multitrack system that has been used in many feature film productions, including Avatar, Avengers, Noah, Star Trek, and Star Wars.