Scholar
Jessica Hodgins
Google Scholar ID: vswo4rQAAAAJ
Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
Citations & Impact
Citations
8,627
H-index
51
i10-index
160
Publications
20
Co-authors
39
list available
Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Received a NSF Young Investigator Award, a Packard Fellowship, and a Sloan Fellowship; served as editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics from 2000-2002 and ACM SIGGRAPH Papers Chair in 2003; elected director at large on the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee from 2012-2017 and ACM SIGGRAPH President in 2017; awarded the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award in 2010 and the Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics in 2017.
Research Experience
- Founded and ran research labs for Disney from 2008-2016, rising to VP of Research; served as Associate Director for Faculty in the Robotics Institute from 2005-2015, managing the promotion and tenure process and creating a mentoring program for pre-tenure faculty; was an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology before moving to Carnegie Mellon in 2000.
Education
- Received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989.
Background
- Professor in the Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, with research interests in computer graphics, animation, and robotics, particularly focusing on generating and analyzing human motion.
Miscellany
- Taught courses such as Animation Art and Technology, Generating Natural Human Motion, Computer Graphics, and more.
