Jessica Hodgins | |
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| 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 Americanroboticist and researcher who is a professor atCarnegie Mellon'sRobotics Institute andSchool 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 ofACM SIGGRAPH in 2017.[2] Until 2016, she was Vice President of Research atDisney Research and was the Director of the Disney Research labs in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles.
Jessica Hodgins was born inUrbana, 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 attendedUrbana High School.[4] She earned a BA in mathematics fromYale University, and went on to receive her PhD in computer science fromCarnegie Mellon University in 1989.[5]
Hodgins was Associate Professor and Assistant Dean in theCollege of Computing atGeorgia Institute of Technology from 1998 to 2000. She has been a professor atCarnegie Mellon University since 2000.
She was Editor in Chief ofACM Transactions on Graphics from 2000 to 2002, and she served as Papers Chair forACM SIGGRAPH in 2003. She was elected the president ofACM SIGGRAPH in 2017.[6] Prior to being elected president, she served as director at large from 2009 to 2017.
Hodgins joinedDisney 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 formotion-capture acting to be performed with a single camera and no markers.[9]
Beginning in summer 2018, Hodgins is on partial leave from CMU to build a Facebook AI Research Lab[10] located in Pittsburgh.[11]
Hodgins has received aNSF Young Investigator Award, aPackard Fellowship, and aSloan Fellowship.
In 2010, she was awarded theACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award.[12]
In 2017 she was awarded theACM SIGGRAPHSteven A. Coons Award.[13]
Hodgins was elected as anACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to character animation, human simulation, and humanoid robotics".[14]
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