As Chief Scientist at Roblox, Morgan McGuire is channeling and accelerating innovation across the company to build a creative, safe, civil, and scalable metaverse.

Roblox combines social interaction with a dynamic 3D environment and economy, with research impact spanning both technology and social sciences.

Prior to Roblox, Morgan led Hyperscale Graphics Research at Nvidia in order to accelerate cloud graphics, esports, ray tracing, and augmented and virtual reality. Morgan's scientific publications and patents span many areas of computer science, from compilers and networking to 3D graphics, and product work includes the NVIDIA RTXGI, the Skylanders®, Call of Duty® and Marvel Ultimate Alliance® video games series, and the E Ink display used in the Amazon Kindle®, among many other innovations.

Morgan cochaired some of the industry’s leading events like the ACM SIGGRAPH symposiums and EuroGraphics conferences and was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques. Morgan holds faculty positions at the University of Waterloo and McGill University and was a full professor at Williams College. Morgan received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Brown University and M.Eng. and B.S. degrees from MIT.