Assistant Control

Location:

Atlanta, GA

Posted:

January 28, 2013

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Yuting Ye

yuting at cc.gatech.edu

Ph.D.

Research Interests

Physics-based simulation and motion control, hand manipulation, motion planning, motion retargeting, optimal control algorithms, numerical optimization, dimension and model reduction, performance capture, machine learning.

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Ph.D. 08/2007 - 12/2011

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA M.CS. 09/2004 - 06/2006

Peking University, Peking, China B.S. 09/2000 - 07/2004

Publications

• Sehoon Ha, Yuting Ye, C. Karen Liu. 2012. "Falling and Landing Motion Control for Character Animation". ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia) 31(6), Article 155.

• Yuting Ye, C. Karen Liu. 2012. "Synthesis of Detailed Hand Manipulations Using Contact Sampling". ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 31(4), Article 41.

• Yuting Ye, C. Karen Liu. 2010. "Optimal feedback control for character animation using an abstract model". ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 29(4), Article 74.

• Yuting Ye, C. Karen Liu. 2010. "Synthesis of responsive motions using a dynamic model". Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics) 29(2), pp.555--562.

• Sumit Jain, Yuting Ye, C. Karen Liu. 2009. "Optimization-based interactive motion synthesis". ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 28(1), Article 10.

• Yuting Ye, C. Karen Liu. 2008. "Animating responsive characters with dynamic constraints in near-unactuated coordinates". ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRPH Asia) 27(5), Article 112.

Honors and Awards

• Third place in Student Research Competition (SRC), ACM SIGGRAPH, 2007.

• Mingde Fellowship, Peking University, 2000-2004.

• First class Freshmen Scholarship, Peking University, 2000.

• Rank first over 180,000 students in the College Entrance Exam, Guangdong, China, 2000.

Research Experiences

Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA

Graduate Research Assistant. Advisor: Dr. C. Karen Liu Fall 2007 - present

• Worked on physics-based simulation and optimal control for human characters;

• Worked on dexterous hand manipulations from incomplete motion capture data;

• Worked on data-driven dimensionality reduction techniques for human motions.

USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) Marina del Rey, CA

Research Intern. Advisor: Dr. Stacy Marsella Summer 2007

• Integrated physics-based balance and tracking control into a kinematics system.

University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA

Graduate Research Assistant. Advisor: Dr. C. Karen Liu Fall 2006 - Spring 2007

• Worked on optimization-based interactive motion synthesis.

University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA

Graduate Research Assistant. Advisor: Dr. David C. Brogan Spring 2005 - Spring 2006

• Worked on momentum-based bipedal balance control.

Teaching Experiences

Teaching Assistantship

• CSCI 101 Fundamentals of Computer Science, USC. Spring 2007, Fall 2006.

• CS 660 Theory of Computation, UVA. Spring 2006.

• CS 201 Software Development Methods (in Java), UVA. Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004.

Guest Lectures

• "Inverse Kinematics", CS 4496 Character Animation. Georgia Tech. Spring 2011.

• "3D Rotations", CS 4496 Character Animation. Georgia Tech. Fall 2010.

• "Articulated Rigid Body Dynamics", CS 7496 Character Animation. Georgia Tech. Fall 2009.

• "Articulated Rigid Body Dynamics", CS 7496 Character Animation. Georgia Tech. Spring 2008.

Skills

Languages: C/C++, Java, Javascript, LaTeX.

Tools: OpenGL, GLUT,,,,,, Cocoa,,, .

Softwares: MATLAB, SVN, Mercurial, Maya, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Vicon IQ and Blade.

Platforms: Mac OSX, Linux, Windows.

Activities

• Reviewer of SIGGRAPH Asia 11, 10, 09; Eurographics 11, 10, 09; Motion in Games 11, 10; CGI 10.

• Editor of the papers preview video for SIGGRAPH 2008.

• Student member of ACM SIGGRAPH, since 2006.

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