**MOCCA Lab Members**
Last updated: May 2024
**Current**
| Name | Degree |
|----------------|--------|
| S. Cohan | Ph.D. |
| D. Reda | Ph.D. |
| G. Woollard | Ph.D. |
| R. Gou | M.Sc. |
| N. Ioannidis | M.Sc. |
| X. Lin | M.Sc. |
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**Alumni**
| Name | Degree | |
|-------|----|---|
| N. Khoshsiyar | M.Sc. | (to be posted; related paper under anonymous review) |
| Y. Fuchioka | M.Sc. | Imitating Optimized Trajectories for Dynamic Quadruped Behaviors |
| Hung Yu Ling | Ph.D. | Techniques in Learning-based Approaches for Character Animation
| Zhaoming Xie | Ph.D. | Reinforcement Learning for Legged Robot Locomotion
| Tianxin Tao | M.Sc. | Learning to Get Up with Deep Reinforcement Learning
| Matthew Wilson | M.Sc. | Beyond Learning Curves: Understanding Stochasticity and Learned Solution Modes in Reinforcement Learning
| Nam Hee Kim | M.Sc. | Directable Physics Based Character Animation
| Glen Berseth | Ph.D. | Scalable Reinforcement Learning for Physics-Based Motion Control |
| Farzad Abdolhosseini | M.Sc. | Understanding Reinforcement Learning for Locomotion |
| X. Zhang | M.Sc. | Data driven auto-completion for keyframe animation |
| Xue Bin (Jason) Peng | M.Sc. | Developing locomotion skills with deep reinforcement learning (*Governor General's Gold Medal*) |
| Libin Liu | Postdoc | |
| Nicolas Bonneel | Postdoc | |
| Philippe Beaudoin | Postdoc | |
| Kangkang Yin | Postdoc | |
| Boris Dalstein | Ph.D. | Topological Modeling for Vector Graphics (*Alain Fournier Ph.D. Dissertation Award*) |
| Shailen Agrawal | Ph.D. | Style Exploration and Generalization for Character Animation |
| Stelian Coros | Ph.D. | Real-Time Planning and Control for Simulated Bipedal Locomotion (*Alain Fournier Ph.D. Dissertation Award*) |
| Maciej Kalisiak | Ph.D. | Toward More Efficient Motion Planning with Differential Constraints |
| Kangkang Yin | Ph.D. | Data-Driven Kinematic and Dynamic Models for Character Animation |
| Hamish Carr | Ph.D. | Topological Manipulation of Isosurfaces(cosup. with Jack Snoeyink) |
| Petros Faloutsos | Ph.D. | Composable Controllers for Physics Based Character Animation |
| Jacob Chen | M.Sc. | Embodied perception during walking using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks |
| Michael Firmin | M.Sc. | Design and integration of controllers for simulated characters |
| Daniel Troniak | M.Sc. | Real-time predictions from un |
| Shuo Shen | M.Sc. | Design and Optimization of Control Primitives for Simulated Characters |
| Chuan Zhu | M.Sc. | Exploring Structured Predictions from Sensorimotor Data during Non-prehensile Manipulation using both Simulations and Robots |
| Jingxian Li | M.Sc. | Reinforcement Learning Using Sensorimotor Traces |
| Ernesto Torres-Vidal | M.Sc. | Modeling standing, walking and rolling skills for physics-based character animation |
| Kai Ding | M.Sc. | Learning reduced order linear feedback policies for motion skills |
| Li Li | M.Sc. | Essay A Reference Implementation for Planar Physics-based Biped Locomotion Using SIMBICON |
| William Chao | M.Sc. | Improvisational interfaces for visualization construction and scalar function sketching |
| Michael Welsman-Dinelle | M.Sc. | The animation canvas : a sketch-based visual language for motion editing |
| Suwen Wang | M.Sc. | Physics-based animation of primate locomotion |
| Ben Jones | M.Sc. | Rising Motion Controllers for Physically Simulated Characters |
| Andrej Karpathy | M.Sc. | Staged learning of agile motor skills |
| Roey Flor | M.Sc. | Template Based Sketch Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models |
| Steven Chang | M.Sc. | Semi-Automatic fitting of deformable 3D models to 2D sketches (cosup with Alla Sheffer) |
| Kevin Loken | M.Sc. | Imitation-based Learning of Bipedal Walking Using Locally Weighted Learning |
| Andrew Adam | M.Sc. | Planning dynamic vehicle motion using move trees |
| Chen Yang | M.Sc. | Sketch-based Modeling of Parameterized Objects |
| Zhijin Wang | M.Sc. | Design and Implementation of a Voice-Driven Animation System |
| Dan Xiao | M.Sc. | Sketch-based Instancing of Parameterized 3D Models |
| Dana Sharon | M.Sc. | Synthesis of Stylized Walking Controllers for Planar Bipeds |
| Ken Alton | M.Sc. | Shaping and Policy Search for Nearest-Neighbour Control Policies for Vehicle Steering |
| Peng Zhao | M.Sc. | Animation Palette: An Interface for Prototyping Dynamic Aerial Motions |
| Matthew Thorne | M.Sc. | Motion Doodles: A Sketch-based Interface for Character Animation |
| Daniel Taranovsky | M.Sc. | Guided Control of Intelligent Virtual Puppets |
| Cathy Jansen | M.Sc. | (natural language interfaces for animation) |
| Maciej Kalisiak | M.Sc. | A Grasp-Based Motion Planning Algorithm for Intelligent Character Animation |
| Jimmy Talbot | M.Sc. | Accurate Characterization of Skin Deformations Using Range Data |
| Ivan Neulander | M.Sc. | Rendering Generalized Cylinders Using the A-Buffer |
| Nick Torkos | M.Sc. | Footprint-Based Quadruped Motion Synthesis |
| Joe Laszlo | M.Sc. | Limit Cycle Control of Dynamic Bipedal Locomotion |
| Petros Faloutsos | M.Sc. | Physics-based Animation and Control of Flexible Characters |
| Pedro Huang | M.Sc. | Planning for Dynamic Motions Using a Search Tree |
| Jason Harrison | Postdoc | |
| Fabrice Neyret | Postdoc | |
| Alexis Lamouret | Postdoc | |
| Eric Langenou | Postdoc | |
| Xiaohuan Wang | M.Sc. | An Adaptive Rendering and Display Model for Networked Applications |
| Ryan Kim | M.Sc. | Automatic Motion Synthesis Using Pose Controllers |