Jessica Hodgins

Jessica Hodgens
Residence Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Fields Robotics, computer science, computer animation
Institutions

Carnegie Mellon University

Disney Research
Alma mater

Carnegie Mellon University

Yale University
Spouse Christopher G. Atkeson

Jessica K. Hodgins is an American roboticist and researcher who is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and School of Computer Science. She is also Vice President of Research at Disney Research and is the Director of the Disney Research labs in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles.

Early life and education

Jessica Hodgins was born in Urbana, Illinois to Audrey and Frank Hodgins. Audrey was an educator whose work was published in numerous journals and magazines. Frank is the namesake of the Frank Hodgins Fellowship Fund for graduate students in English at the University of Illinois.[1] Hodgins attended Urbana High School.[2] She earned a BA in mathematics from Yale University, and went on to received her PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989.[3]

Career

Hodgins was Associate Professor and Assistant Dean in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology from 1998 to 2000. She was Editor in Chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics from 2000 to 2002, and she served as Papers Chair for ACM SIGGRAPH in 2003. She has been a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University since 2000.

Disney Research

Hodgins joined Disney Research in 2008. Much of her research there has been focused on motion capture and computer animation technologies.[4][5] In 2012 she was part of a team that developed and demonstrated a technique for motion-capture acting to be performed with a single camera and no markers.[6]

Awards

Hodgins has received a NSF Young Investigator Award, a Packard Fellowship, and a Sloan Fellowship. In 2010, she was awarded the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Audrey Hodgins Obituary". The News-Gazette. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
  2. ↑ "Jessica Hodgins | Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
  3. ↑ "Jessica Hodgins-Quality of Life Technology Center - Carnegie Mellon University". www.cmu.edu. Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
  4. ↑ "Character animation technique produces realistic looking bends at joints". Science Codex. July 18, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  5. ↑ Hodgins, Jessica; Zordan, Victor Brian (2002). "Motion capture-driven simulations that hit and react". In Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation. ACM Press: 89–96. doi:10.1145/545261.545276.
  6. ↑ "Disney Research demonstrates markerless motion capture". EurekAlert!. August 3, 2012. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
  7. ↑ "Disney Research » Management". www.disneyresearch.com. Retrieved 2016-08-15.

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