Senior Director of Engineering, Mixed Reality Workplace, Microsoft
Dio is a Senior Director of Engineering at Microsoft working on Mixed Reality experiences.
She holds a master’s degree from Purdue University, where she was involved in collaborative VR research for CAVE™-like systems. As a lecturer at Singapore’s Nanyang Polytechnic, she specialized in future immersive technologies, and later as a research scientist at University of Louisiana she conducted R&D for a large scale VR framework for the US Army Research Laboratory. She worked 5 years in the animated film industry at Pixar and DreamWorks Animation, and before joining Microsoft she spent 2 years at Unity Labs conducting VR and MR research.
At Microsoft, we are on a mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. Mixed reality has the potential to help customers and businesses across the globe do things that until now, have never been possible. Mixed reality experiences will help businesses and their employees complete crucial tasks faster, safer, more efficiently, and create new ways to connect to customers and partners.