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Career

· VP, Strategic Projects & Research, RAI Institute2022–
· Research Director, Facebook AI Research Lab2018–
· Vice President of Research, Disney Research2008–2017
· Allen Newell University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University2000–
· Associate Professor and Assistant Dean, Georgia Institute of Technology1998–2000
· Researcher, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center1990–1992
· PhD in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University1989–
· Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory1989–1990
· B.A. in Mathematics, Yale University1981–

Publications (204)

Synthesizing physically realistic human motion in low-dimensional, behavior-specific spaces
ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2004
535
cited
Segmenting Motion Capture Data into Distinct Behaviors
Graphics Interface · 2004
490
cited
Footstep Planning for the Honda ASIMO Humanoid
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2005
452
cited
Performance animation from low-dimensional control signals
ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2005
411
cited
A Storytelling Robot: Modeling and Evaluation of Human-like Gaze Behavior
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots · 2006
378
cited
Hierarchical Aligned Cluster Analysis for Temporal Clustering of Human Motion
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2013
372
cited
Social interactions: A first-person perspective
2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2012
333
cited
Construction and optimal search of interpolated motion graphs
ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2007
330
cited
A deep learning approach for generalized speech animation
ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2017
316
cited
Guide to the Carnegie Mellon University Multimodal Activity (CMU-MMAC) Database
2008
304
cited
Synthesizing animations of human manipulation tasks
ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2004
268
cited
Automatic Joint Parameter Estimation from Magnetic Motion Capture Data
Graphics Interface · 2023
256
cited
Capturing and animating skin deformation in human motion
ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2006
246
cited
Realtime style transfer for unlabeled heterogeneous human motion
ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2015
211
cited
A data-driven approach to quantifying natural human motion
ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2005
192
cited
Anthropomorphism influences perception of computer-animated characters' actions.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience · 2007
192
cited
Learning basketball dribbling skills using trajectory optimization and deep reinforcement learning
ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2018
190
cited
Conversational gaze mechanisms for humanlike robots
TIIS · 2012
189
cited
Action capture with accelerometers
Symposium on Computer Animation · 2008
187
cited
Aligned Cluster Analysis for temporal segmentation of human motion
IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition · 2008
182
cited
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