C. Karen Liu
Karen joined Georgia Tech in August 2007 as an assistant professor in School of Interactive Computing. Before moving to Atlanta, Karen was an assistant professor at the University of Southern California from January 2006, after she received her Ph.D and M.S. in 2005 and 2001 from the University of Washington. Her research interests are in computer graphics and animation, including physics-based animation, character animation, numerical methods, robotics and computational biomechanics. Karen’s Ph.D. thesis focuses on designing a generative model for human natural motion. Karen is a member of the Graphics Lab at Georgia Tech.
Synthesis of Responsive Motion Using a Dynamic Model, Yuting Ye and C. Karen Liu, Computer Graphics Forum 29(2), 2010 (Eurographics Proceedings)
Interactive Synthesis of Human-Object Interaction, Sumit Jain and C. Karen Liu, in ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2009
Dextrous Manipulation from a Grasping Pose, C. Karen Liu, in ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2009
Performance-Based Control Interface for Character Animation, Satoru Ishigaki,, Timothy White, Victor Zordan, and C. Karen Liu, in ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2009
Paper and video upon request
Optimization-based Interactive Motion Synthesis, Sumit Jain, Yuting Ye, and C. Karen Liu, in ACM Transactions on Graphics (Referred by SIGGRAPH) 2009
Animating Responsive Characters with Dynamic Constraints in Near-Unactuated Coordinates, Yuting Ye and C. Karen Liu, in ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia) 2008
Synthesis of Interactive Hand Manipulation, C. Karen Liu, in ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2008
Composition of Complex Optimal Multi-Character Motions, C. Karen Liu, Aaron Hertzmann, and Zoran Popovic, in ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2006
Dance Reveals Symmetry Especially in Young Men, William Brown, Lee Cronk, Keith Grochow, Amy Jacobson, C. Karen Liu, Zoran Popovic, and Robert Trivers, in Nature, 2005
Learning Physics-Based Motion Style with Nonlinear Inverse Optimization, C. Karen Liu, Aaron Hertzmann, and Zoran Popovic, in ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2005
Momentum-Based Parameterization of Dynamic Character Motion, Yuihi Abe, C. Karen Liu, and Zoran Popovic, in ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2004
Synthesis of Complex Dynamics Character Motion from Simple Animation, C. Karen Liu and Zoran Popovic, in ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2002
CS 8803: Numerical Optimization and Applications
CS 4496: Computer Animation (Undergraduate)
CS 7496: Computer Animation (Graduate)
2007 Young Innovators Under 35, Technology Review
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program (2007-2011), National Science Foundation
