Jessica Hodgins is a Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1992-2000 she on the faculty of the College of Computing and the Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center at Georgia Tech. She received an NSF Young Investigator Award, a Packard Fellowship and a Sloan Foundation Fellowship. She was editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics from 2000-2002 and was SIGGRAPH 2003 Papers Chair. Her research focuses on the coordination and control of dynamic physical systems, both natural and human-made, and explores techniques that allow robots and simulated humans to control their actions in complex and unpredictable environments.

Talk title:
Robotics -> Graphics -> Robotics

Abstract:
In this talk, I will describe some of the many connections between the research problems encountered in computer animation and in robotics. I will describe my own research path from robotics to graphics and back to robotics to illustrate these connections.