Jessica Hodgins

Jessica Hodgins
Alma materYale University
Carnegie Mellon University
SpouseChristopher G. Atkeson
AwardsNational Science Foundation Young Investigator Award
Packard Fellowship
Sloan Research Fellowship
Steven A. Coons Award
Scientific career
FieldsRobotics, computer science, computer graphics
InstitutionsGeorgia Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Disney Research
Thesis Legged robots on rough terrain : experiments in adjusting step length  (1989)
Doctoral advisorMarc 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.

  1. ^ Metz, Cade (2018-05-04). "Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local Universities". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  2. ^ "Hodgins Elected President of SIGGRAPH - News - Carnegie Mellon University". www.cmu.edu. Retrieved 31 March 2019.