Jessica K. Hodgins is an American roboticist and researcher who is a professor at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and School of Computer Science.
[5] Hodgins was Associate Professor and Assistant Dean in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology from 1998 to 2000.
[7][8] In 2012 she was part of a team that developed and demonstrated a technique for motion-capture acting to be performed with a single camera and no markers.
[9] Beginning in summer 2018, Hodgins is on partial leave from CMU to build a Facebook AI Research Lab[10] located in Pittsburgh.
[13] Hodgins was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to character animation, human simulation, and humanoid robotics".