Beyond Computer Animation

When: Monday, February 24, 2014
Where: PGH 232
Time: 11:00 AM

Speaker: Prof. Karen Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology

Host: Deng

Creating truly agile and responsive virtual humans in a physically simulated world has been a longstanding challenge in computer animation. The complexity of this problem and incomplete understanding of human motor control led me to pursue an interdisciplinary approach to my research. In this talk, I will showcase a few of my research projects and their potential to make impact on digital media technologies, robotics applications, as well as scientific discovery in biomechanics and neuroscience.

Bio:
C. Karen Liu is an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 2005. Liu's research interests are in computer graphics and animation, including physics-based animation, character animation, numerical methods, robotics and computational biomechanics. Liu received National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and was named Young Innovators Under 35 by Technology Review. In 2012, Liu received the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award for her contribution in the field of computer graphics.