Jessica Hodgins

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Jessica Hodgins
Alma mater Yale University
Carnegie Mellon University
Spouse Christopher G. Atkeson
Awards National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award
Packard Fellowship
Sloan Research Fellowship
Steven A. Coons Award
Scientific career
Fields Robotics, computer science, computer graphics
Institutions Georgia Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Disney Research
Thesis Legged robots on rough terrain : experiments in adjusting step length  (1989)
Doctoral advisor Marc Raibert

Jessica K. Hodgins is an American roboticist and researcher who is a professor at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and School of Computer Science. Hodgins is currently also Research Director at the Facebook AI Research lab in Pittsburgh next to Carnegie Mellon. [1] She was elected the president of ACM SIGGRAPH in 2017. [2] Until 2016, she was Vice President of Research at Disney Research and was the Director of the Disney Research labs in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles.

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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. [3] Hodgins attended Urbana High School. [4] She earned a BA in mathematics from Yale University, and went on to receive her PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. [5]

Career

Hodgins was Associate Professor and Assistant Dean in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology from 1998 to 2000. She has been a professor at Carnegie Mellon University since 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 was elected the president of ACM SIGGRAPH in 2017. [6] Prior to being elected president, she served as director at large from 2009 to 2017.

Disney Research

Hodgins joined Disney Research in 2008 and founded the Disney Research Pittsburgh lab. Much of her research there has been focused on motion capture and computer animation technologies. [7] [8] 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. [9]

Facebook AI Research Lab

Beginning in summer 2018, Hodgins is on partial leave from CMU to build a Facebook AI Research Lab [10] located in Pittsburgh. [11]

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. [12]

In 2017 she was awarded the ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award. [13]

Hodgins was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to character animation, human simulation, and humanoid robotics". [14]

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  3. ↑ "Audrey Hodgins Obituary". The News-Gazette. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
  4. ↑ "Jessica Hodgins | Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
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  7. ↑ "Character animation technique produces realistic looking bends at joints". Science Codex. July 18, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  8. ↑ Hodgins, Jessica; Zordan, Victor Brian (2002). "Motion capture-driven simulations that hit and react". Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation. Sca '02. ACM Press. pp. 89–96. doi:10.1145/545261.545276. ISBN   1581135734. S2CID   1656591.
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  12. ↑ "Disney Research » Management". www.disneyresearch.com. Archived from the original on 2016-05-03. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
  13. ↑ "2017 Steven A. Coons Award: Jessica Hodgins". ACM Siggraph. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  14. ↑ 2018 ACM Fellows Honored for Pivotal Achievements that Underpin the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, December 5, 2018
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