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.






Animating Responsive Characters with Dynamic Constraints in Near-Unactuated Coordinates, with Yuting Ye, in ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2008


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Synthesis of Interactive Hand Manipulation in ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2008


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Composition of Complex Optimal Multi-Character Motions, with Aaron Hertzmann and Zoran Popovic, in ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2006


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Dance Reveals Symmetry Especially in Young Men, with William Brown, Lee Cronk, Keith Grochow, Amy Jacobson, Zoran Popovic, and Robert Trivers, in Nature, Vol 438 Num. 7071


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Learning Physics-Based Motion Style with Nonlinear Inverse Optimization, with Aaron Hertzmann and Zoran Popovic, in ACM Transaction on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2005)


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Momentum-Based Parameterization of Dynamic Character Motion, with Yuihi Abe and Zoran Popovic, in ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2004


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Synthesis of Complex Dynamics Character Motion from Simple Animation, with Zoran Popovic, in ACM Transaction on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2002)


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CS 8803: Numerical Optimization and Applications, Fall 2008

CS 4496/CS 7496: Computer Animation, Spring 2008







2007 Young Innovators Under 35, Technology Review






Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program (2007-2011), National Science Foundation


 

Assistant Professor


School of Interactive Computing

Georgia Institute of Technology


85 5th St NW, Atlanta GA 30332

Office: TSRB 317


Phone: 404.8946609

Fax: 404.8940673


Email: karenliu@cc.gatech.edu

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