Jessica K Hodgins is an American roboticist and researcher who is a professor at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and School of Computer Science.
11 Facts About Jessica Hodgins
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Jessica Hodgins was elected the president of ACM SIGGRAPH in 2017.
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Jessica Hodgins was born in Urbana, Illinois to Audrey and Frank Hodgins.
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Jessica Hodgins earned a BA in mathematics from Yale University, and went on to receive her PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989.
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Jessica Hodgins was Associate Professor and Assistant Dean in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology from 1998 to 2000.
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Jessica Hodgins has been a professor at Carnegie Mellon University since 2000.
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Jessica Hodgins was Editor in Chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics from 2000 to 2002, and she served as Papers Chair for ACM SIGGRAPH in 2003.
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Jessica Hodgins was elected the president of ACM SIGGRAPH in 2017.
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Jessica Hodgins joined Disney Research in 2008 and founded the Disney Research Pittsburgh lab.
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Jessica Hodgins has received a NSF Young Investigator Award, a Packard Fellowship, and a Sloan Fellowship.
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Jessica Hodgins was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to character animation, human simulation, and humanoid robotics".