Will is a Reader Computer Science and head of the Vision, Graphics and Learning (VGL) research group at University of York. He was a Royal Academy of Engineering/The Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow from 2019-2020 and is an Associate Editor of the journal Pattern Recognition. His research interests span vision, graphics and machine learning. Specifically, physics-based and 3D computer vision, shape and appearance modelling and the application of statistics and machine learning to these areas. The application areas in which he most commonly works are face/body analysis and synthesis, surveying and mapping, object capture and inverse rendering. He leads a team of five PhD students and two postdocs. He has published over 100 papers, many in the top conferences and journals in the field.