• Image/Video generation models
• Expressive Head Avatar Generation
• AI for Humanoid Robotics

TurboPortrait3D: Single-step diffusion-based fast portrait novel-view synthesis (paper)
Emily Kim, Julieta Martinez, Timur Bagautdinov, Jessica Hodgins

Codec avatar studio: Paired human captures for complete, driveable, and generalizable avatars (paper)
Julieta Martinez, Emily Kim, Javier Romero, Timur Bagautdinov, Shunsuke Saito, Shoou-I Yu, Stuart Anderson, Michael Zollhöfer, Te-Li Wang, Shaojie Bai, Chenghui Li, Shih-En Wei, Rohan Joshi, Wyatt Borsos, Tomas Simon, Jason Saragih, Paul Theodosis, Alexander Greene, Anjani Josyula, Silvio Maeta, Andrew Jewett, Simion Venshtain, Christopher Heilman, Yueh-Tung Chen, Sidi Fu, Mohamed Elshaer, Tingfang Du, Longhua Wu, Shen-Chi Chen, Kai Kang, Michael Wu, Youssef Emad, Steven Longay, Ashley Brewer, Hitesh Shah, James Booth, Taylor Koska, Kayla Haidle, Matthew Andromalos, Joanna Hsu, Thomas Dauer, Peter Selednik, Tim Godisart, Scott Ardisson, Matthew Cipperly, Ben Humberston, Lon Farr, Bob Hansen, Peihong Guo, Dave Braun, Steven Krenn, He Wen, Lucas Evans, Natalia Fadeeva, Matthew Stewart, Gabriel Schwartz, Divam Gupta, Gyeongsik Moon, Kaiwen Guo, Yuan Dong, Yichen Xu, Takaaki Shiratori, Fabian Prada, Bernardo Pires, Bo Peng, Julia Buffalini, Autumn Trimble, Kevyn McPhail, Melissa Schoeller, Yaser Sheikh

Curriculum-Based Strategies for Efficient Cross-Domain Action Recognition (paper)
Emily Kim, Allen Wu, Jessica Hodgins

Exploring the impact of rendering method and motion quality on model performance when using multi-view synthetic data for action recognition (paper)
Stanislav Panev*, Emily Kim*, Sai Abhishek Si Namburu, Desislava Nikolova, Celso de Melo, Fernando De la Torre, Jessica Hodgins

Texture-and Shape-based Adversarial Attacks for Vehicle Detection in Synthetic Overhead Imagery (paper)
Mikael Yeghiazaryan, Sai Abhishek Siddhartha Namburu, Emily Kim, Stanislav Panev, Celso De Melo, Fernando De La Torre, Jessica Hodgins

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik

• September 2019 - September 2025: Ph. D. student in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
  
• September 2015 - May 2019: Bachelor of Science in Joint Math-Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College