2026 Jessica K. Hodgins: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	85	808	779	439	421	287	26819

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - ACM Fellow For contributions to character animation, human simulation, and humanoid robotics.
1995 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Jessica K. Hodgins is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research spans several key areas within computer science and engineering, with a focus on computer vision, control systems, computer graphics, and artificial intelligence.

The main fields of study associated with Hodgins include:

Computer Science
Engineering

Within these broader fields, Hodgins has contributed extensively to subfields such as:

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Control and Systems Engineering
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Computational Mechanics
Artificial Intelligence

Their research topics cover a diverse range of areas closely related to human motion and visual representation, including:

Human Pose and Action Recognition
Human Motion and Animation
Advanced Vision and Imaging
Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
Video Analysis and Summarization

Hodgins has published numerous papers in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

arXiv (Cornell University)
ACM Transactions on Graphics
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Sensors

Some recent selected papers authored or co-authored by Hodgins include:

On the use of simulation in robotics: Opportunities, challenges, and suggestions for moving forward (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Next-generation deep learning based on simulators and synthetic data (2021), Trends in Cognitive Sciences
A scalable approach to control diverse behaviors for physically simulated characters (2020), ACM Transactions on Graphics
Parkinson's Disease Tremor Detection in the Wild Using Wearable Accelerometers (2020), Sensors
Physics-based character controllers using conditional VAEs (2022), ACM Transactions on Graphics

Hodgins frequently collaborates with the following co-authors:

Jungdam Won
Deepak Gopinath
Chenglei Wu
Giljoo Nam
Tuur Stuyck

Recognition for Hodgins' contributions includes being named an ACM Fellow in 2018 for work in character animation, human simulation, and humanoid robotics, as well as being a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1995.

Best Publications

Interactive control of avatars animated with human motion data

Jehee Lee;Jinxiang Chai;Paul S. A. Reitsma;Jessica K. Hodgins

1284
Citations
Animating human athletics

Jessica K. Hodgins;Wayne L. Wooten;David C. Brogan;James F. O'Brien

963
Citations
Design galleries: a general approach to setting parameters for computer graphics and animation

J. Marks;B. Andalman;P. A. Beardsley;W. Freeman

826
Citations
Graphical modeling and animation of ductile fracture

James F. O'Brien;Adam W. Bargteil;Jessica K. Hodgins

715
Citations
Synthesizing physically realistic human motion in low-dimensional, behavior-specific spaces

Alla Safonova;Jessica K. Hodgins;Nancy S. Pollard

630
Citations
Segmenting motion capture data into distinct behaviors

Jernej Barbič;Alla Safonova;Jia-Yu Pan;Christos Faloutsos

624
Citations
Footstep Planning for the Honda ASIMO Humanoid

J. Chestnutt;M. Lau;G. Cheung;J. Kuffner

586
Citations
Graphical modeling and animation of brittle fracture

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546
Citations
Animation of dynamic legged locomotion

Marc H. Raibert;Jessica K. Hodgins

516
Citations
Performance animation from low-dimensional control signals

Jinxiang Chai;Jessica K. Hodgins

505
Citations
Social interactions: A first-person perspective

Alircza Fathi;Jessica K. Hodgins;James M. Rehg

480
Citations
Adapting human motion for the control of a humanoid robot

N.S. Pollard;J.K. Hodgins;M.J. Riley;C.G. Atkeson

472
Citations
Hierarchical Aligned Cluster Analysis for Temporal Clustering of Human Motion

Feng Zhou;F. De la Torre;J. K. Hodgins

448
Citations
A Storytelling Robot: Modeling and Evaluation of Human-like Gaze Behavior

B. Mutlu;J. Forlizzi;J. Hodgins

412
Citations
Motion capture-driven simulations that hit and react

Victor Brian Zordan;Jessica K. Hodgins

402
Citations
Adjusting step length for rough terrain locomotion

J.K. Hodgins;M.N. Raibert

380
Citations
Adapting simulated behaviors for new characters

Jessica K. Hodgins;Nancy S. Pollard

341
Citations
Dynamically simulated characters in virtual environments

D.C. Brogan;R.A. Metoyer;J.K. Hodgins

333
Citations
Group Behaviors for Systems with Significant Dynamics

David C. Brogan;Jessica K. Hodgins

329
Citations
Two methods for display of high contrast images

Jack Tumblin;Jessica K. Hodgins;Brian K. Guenter

306
Citations
Construction and optimal search of interpolated motion graphs

Alla Safonova;Jessica K. Hodgins

253
Citations
Free-Viewpoint Video of Human Actors

Joel Carranza;Christian Theobalt;Marcus Magnor;Hans-Peter Seidel

242
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Katsu Yamane Robert Bosch (United States)

Fernando De la Torre Carnegie Mellon University

Nancy S. Pollard Carnegie Mellon University

James F. O'Brien University of California, Berkeley

Yaser Sheikh Facebook (United States)

Ariel Shamir Reichman University

Leonid Sigal University of British Columbia

Jodi Forlizzi Carnegie Mellon University

Marc H. Raibert Boston Dynamics (United States)

Sara Kiesler Carnegie Mellon University

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