Kangkang Yin

KangKang Yin is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Computing Science at the Simon Fraser University. From 2010 to 2016 she was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore. She worked as an Associate Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia from 2008 to 2010, after she obtained her PhD degree from the University of British Columbia in 2007. Her research interests include Computer Animation and Geometry Processing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Human Computer Interaction, and Humanoid Robotics. She regularly serves on the program committees of all major computer graphics conferences including SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, Eurographics, SCA(ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation), among others. She is currently an Associate Editor of Computer Graphics Forum. She was a program co-chair for Pacific Graphics 2013 and SCA2017. She has won three SCA best-paper awards (2011, 2013 and 2015). She is a senior member of ACM and IEEE.

Research Interests

• computer animation
• computer graphics
• humanoid robotics
• machine learning
• multimedia analysis

Teaching Interests

• Computer Animation
• Computer Graphics
• Scientific Computing
• Machine Learning

Education

• PhD The University of British Columbia

Companies

• Associate Professor Simon Fraser University (2017)
• Associate Professor National Unviersity of Singapore (2016 — 2017)
• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2010 — 2015)
• Associate Researcher Microsoft Research Asia (2008 — 2010)
• Post-Doctoral Fellow University of British Columbia (2007 — 2008)
• Summer Intern Honda R&D Americas, Inc. (2007 — 2007)

Selected Recent Publications

• Xue Bin Peng, Glen Berseth, KangKang Yin, Michiel van de Panne. DeepLoco: Dynamic Locomotion Skills Using Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 36, 4, Article 41 (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2017), 16 pages.
• Tian Feng, Lap-Fai Yu, Sai-Kit Yeung, KangKang Yin, Kun Zhou. Crowd-driven Mid-scale Layout Design. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 35, 4, Article 132 (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2016), 14 pages.
• Libin Liu, Michiel van de Panne, KangKang Yin. Guided Learning of Control Graphs for Physics-based Characters. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 35, 3, Article 29 (presented at SIGGRAPH 2016), 14 pages.
• Kai Ding, Libin Liu, Michiel van de Panne, KangKang Yin. Learning Reduced-Order Feedback Policies for Motion Skills. ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2015, pp. 83-92. Best paper award.
• Bin Wang, Longhua Wu, KangKang Yin, Uri Ascher, Libin Liu, Hui Huang. Deformation Capture and Modeling of Soft Objects. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 34, 4, Article 94 (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2015), 12 pages.