Jessica K. Hodgins
About Jessica K. Hodgins
Affiliations
- Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Computer Science and Robotics, Professor
- Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center and College of Computing
- Meta, Facebook AI Research
- The Walt Disney Company, Disney Research Pittsburgh
Location
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Bio
SIGGRAPH 2007
Jessica Hodgins is a professor in the Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to moving to CMU, she was an an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. She has received a NSF Young Investigator Award, a Packard Fellowship, and a Sloan Fellowship. She was editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics from 2000-2002 and Papers Chair for ACM SIGGRAPH 2003. Her research focuses on human animation, humanoid robotics, human-robot interaction, and perception of human motion.
SIGGRAPH 1995
Jessica K. Hodgins received a B A degree in Mathematics from Yale University in 1981, and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. Her PhD thesis was entitled Legged Robots on Rough Terrain Experiments in Adjusting Step Length. From 1989 to 1990, Hodgins was a postdoctoral researcher in the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where she continued her studies on the dynamics of legged locomotion. From 1990 to 1992, Hodgins was in the Computer Animation and Image Synthesis Group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. While at IBM she explored the use of robot control techniques as a tool for generating motion for computer animation. Hodgins is currently an Assistant Professor in the College of Computing Center at Georgia Institute of Technology and a member of the Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center. Her research focuses on the coordination and control of dynamic physical systems, both natural and human-made and explores techniques that may someday allow robots and animated creatures to plan and control their actions in complex and unpredictable environments. In 1994 she received an NSF Young Investigator Award and was awarded a Packard Fellowship. In 1995 she received a Sloan Foundation Fellowship. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Autonomous Mobile Robots.
Awards and Recognition
- SIGGRAPH 2017 Steven Anson Coons Award: Hodgins
- SIGGRAPH 2010 Computer Graphics Achievement Award: Hodgins
- ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member, inducted in 2018
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH 2008: New Tech Demos
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2021: Technical Papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2024: Technical Papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2023: Technical Papers
Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 1997: Technical Papers
Conference Contributions
Experiences
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Birds of a Feather
Learning
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Courses
Education
Frontiers
Presenter(s):- Adam W. Bargteil
- Alex Bryant
- Andrew Glassner
- Bruce Nunzio Tartaglia
- Douglas (Doug) Roble
- Hanspeter Pfister
- Heather Pritchett
- Jeff Lait
- Jessica K. Hodgins
- Jinny Hye Jin Choo
- Joaquim A. Jorge
- C. Karen Liu
- Marisa Tontaveetong
- Mark Elendt
- Mashhuda Glencross
- Mikki Rose
- Ming C. Lin
- Miriah Meyer
- Munkhtsetseg (Muunuu) Nandigjav
- Natalya Tatarchuk
- Peter Shirley
- Pol Jeremias-Vila
- Theodore Kim
- Tomasz Bednarz
- Tom Emrich
Panels
Talks-Sketches
Technical Papers
Sessions Moderated
- “The Potential of End-User Programmable Worlds: Present and Future” Moderated by Jessica K. Hodgins
- “Generalizing locomotion style to new animals with inverse optimal regression” by Wampler, Popovic and Popović
- “Data-Driven Control of Flapping Flight” by Ju, Won, Lee, Choi, Noh, et al. …
- “Learning bicycle stunts” by Tan, Gu, Liu and Turk
- “Online motion synthesis using sequential Monte Carlo” by Hämäläinen, Eriksson, Tanskanen, Kyrki and Lehtinen
- “Breathing life into shape: capturing, modeling and animating 3D human breathing” by Tsoli, Mahmood and Black
- “Assisted articulation of closed polygonal models” by Teichmann and Teller
- “Directing physics” by Chenney
- “Dynamic modeling of human hair and GUI based hair style designing system” by Kishi and Morishima
- “Faster integration of the equations of motion” by Saunders
Other Information
Roles
- ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member
- Awardee
- Birds of Feather Presenter
- Conference Support Committee Member: Other
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Education Program Presenter
- Emerging Technologies Organizing Committee Member
- Frontiers Presenter
- Panel Moderator
- Panels Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Talk (Sketch) Moderator
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Talks (Sketches) Organizing Committee Member
- Technical Paper Moderator
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Jury Member
- Technical Papers Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Technical Papers Organizing Committee Member
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