Jessica K. Hodgins
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Carnegie Mellon University, Disney Research Pittsburgh, School of Computer Science, Computer Science and Robotics, Professor
Other Affiliation(s):
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Facebook AI Research
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
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Award(s):
- SIGGRAPH 2017 Steven Anson Coons Award: Hodgins
- SIGGRAPH 2010 Computer Graphics Achievement Award: Hodgins
Learning Presentation(s):

Type: [Technical Papers]
A Scalable Approach to Control Diverse Behaviors for PhysicallySimulated Characters Presenter(s): [Won] [Gopinath] [Hodgins]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]

Type: []
Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes Presenter(s): [Narayanan] [Albaugh] [Hodgins] [Coros] [McCann]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Learning basketball dribbling skills using trajectory optimization and deep reinforcement learning Presenter(s): [Liu] [Hodgins]
Entry No.: [142]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]

Type: [Technical Papers]
A deep learning approach for generalized speech animation Presenter(s): [Taylor] [Kim] [Mahler] [Krahe] [Hodgins] [Yue] [Matthews]
[SIGGRAPH 2017]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Learning to Schedule Control Fragments for Physics-Based Characters Using Deep Q-Learning Presenter(s): [Liu] [Hodgins]
[SIGGRAPH 2017]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Automatic editing of footage from multiple social cameras Presenter(s): [Arev] [Park] [Sheikh] [Hodgins] [Shamir]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]

Type: [Panels]
Future Directions in Graphics Research Presenter(s): [Hodgins] [Foley] [Hanrahan] [Greenberg]
Entry No.: [01]
[SIGGRAPH 2010]

Type: [Courses]
Database Techniques With Motion Capture Organizer(s): [Pollard]
Presenter(s): [Faloutsos] [Hodgins]
Entry No.: [21]
[SIGGRAPH 2007]

Type: [Panels]
The Uncanny Valley of Eeriness Presenter(s): [Chaminade] [Hodgins] [Letteri] [MacDorman]
Entry No.: [01]
[SIGGRAPH 2007]

Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Learning Silhouette Features for Control of Human Motion Presenter(s): [Ren] [Shakhnarovich] [Hodgins] [Pfister] [Viola]
[SIGGRAPH 2004]

Type: [Educator’s Forum]
Team Teaching Animation Art and Technology Presenter(s): [Duesing] [Hodgins]
[SIGGRAPH 2004]
Learning Moderator Presentation(s):

Type: [Technical Papers]
Breathing life into shape: capturing, modeling and animating 3D human breathing Presenter(s): [Tsoli] [Mahmood] [Black]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Data-Driven Control of Flapping Flight Presenter(s): [Ju] [Won] [Lee] [Choi] [Noh] [Choi]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Generalizing locomotion style to new animals with inverse optimal regression Presenter(s): [Wampler] [Popovic] [Popović]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Learning bicycle stunts Presenter(s): [Tan] [Gu] [Liu] [Turk]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]
Role(s):
- Awardee
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Educator's Forum Presenter
- Emerging Technologies Organizing Committee Member
- Panel Moderator
- Panels Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Special Projects Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Technical Paper Moderator
- Technical Paper Presenter