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Jessica Hodgins
Associate Professor,
College of Computing
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Jessica Hodgins
is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing.
She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from
Carnegie Mellon University
in 1989 and was a postdoctoral fellow in the
Leg Lab
at the
MIT Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory
and the
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research
Center.
Her graduate research involved programming a two-legged laboratory robot
to
run, accurately place its foot to avoid obstacles, climb stairs and
perform
gymnastic maneuvers. 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.
Her current research focuses
on generating motion for
computer animation
by using control algorithms in
combination with physically realistic simulation.
Her recent research funding is from the National Science
Foundation and Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory.
She was awarded an NSF Young Investigator Award and the
Packard Foundation Fellowship in
Science and Engineering in 1994, and a Sloan Foundation
Fellowship
in 1995.
Contact information:
Jessica Hodgins
Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center
College of Computing
801 Atlantic Drive
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, 30332-0280
E-mail: jessica.hodgins@cc.gatech.edu
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