Jessica Hodgins
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 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. She was elected the president of ACM SIGGRAPH in 2017. 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.