Ben Jones

About Me

I am a PhD student at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT. My research interests include physical simulation, character animation, and other graphicsy things, and as a side effect, scientific computing.

I earned my MSc at the department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver in July, 2011. My MSc thesis was focused on physically based character animation work done with Michiel van de Panne.

I earned my BSc in Computer Science and Engineering Physics from the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO in 2009.

Publications

Locomotion Skills for Simulated Quadrupeds

Project webpage (featuring Windows binary demo)

@ARTICLE{
2011-TOG-quadruped,
author = {Stelian Coros and Andrej Karpathy and 
Ben Jones and Lionel Reveret and Michiel van de Panne},
title = {Locomotion Skills for Simulated Quadrupeds},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics},
year = {2011},
volume = {30},
number = {4},
pages = {Article TBD}
}

Masters Thesis:
Rising Motion Controllers for Physically Simulated Characters

PDF

@MASTERSTHESIS{
jonesThesis2011,
author = {Ben Jones},
title = {Rising Motion Controllers for 
         Physically Simulated Characters},
school = {University of British Columbia},
year = {2011}
}

Trivia

I play a lot of ultimate frisbee. Hit me up if you need a sub :)
I've given 8 lectures at the UBC Computer Science UnDistinguished Lecture Series and was an organizer from April 2010-May 2011.
Also while at UBC, I was the department "beer czar," coordinating the weekly Friday evening beer call with an often hilarious email.