Liming Zhao

I am now working at D.E.Shaw Research.

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science in August 2009 from University of Pennsylvania.

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Short Bio

I was born in a beautiful city located in the lower Yangtze River drainage basin. My hometown Nanjing takes a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, as it is one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China. I went to Hangzhou for my undergraduate study, where I enjoyed the beautiful natural scenery often described as the paradise on earth. There, I obtained my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Zhejiang University. I traveled almost half the earth to come to Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love and a centerpiece of American history. I received both my M.S. and my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Now I am enjoying my live in New York City. The populated streets and the vibrant life style bring back a feeling of my hometown.

Research Interest

My graduate research focused on computer graphics, in particular, character animation and motion analysis. I researched novel methods to synthesize realistic human motions and develop tools that enable easy control to the generated motions. My thesis advisors are Professor Alla Safonova and Professor Norman Badler.

At D.E.Shaw Research, I work as a research scientist on designing and developing computer softwares on specialized supercomputer (Anton) for computational biochemistry.

Cheng Ren, Liming Zhao and Alla Safonova. "Human Motion Synthesis with Optimization-based Graphs" To appear in Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics 2010)
Liming Zhao, Aline Normoyle, Sanjeev Khanna and Alla Safonova. "Automatic Construction of a Minimum Size Motion Graph" ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, New Orleans, 2009.
Liming Zhao and Alla Safonova. "Achieving Good Connectivity in Motion Graphs" Accepted to Graphical Models Journal 2009 (extended version of the SCA paper).
Liming Zhao and Alla Safonova. "Achieving Good Connectivity in Motion Graphs" ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, Dublin, Ireland, 2008. Conference Award: Best Paper Award.
Matt Huenerfauth, Liming Zhao, Erdan Gu and Jan Allbeck. "Evaluation of American Sign Language Generation by Native ASL Signers" ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing 2008.
Matt Huenerfauth, Liming Zhao, Erdan Gu and Jan Allbeck. "Evaluating American Sign Language Generation Through the Participation of Native ASL Signers" Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Tempe, Arizona, ASSETS-2007. Conference Award: ACM SIGACCESS Best Technical Paper Award, 2007.
Matt Huenerfauth, Liming Zhao, Erdan Gu and Jan Allbeck. "Design and Evaluation of an American Sign Language Generator" 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Workshop on Embodied Language Processing. Prague, Czech Republic. 2007.
Liming Zhao, Ying Liu, Norman I. Badler. "Applying Empirical Data on Upper Torso Movement to Real-time Collision-free Reach Tasks" Proceedings of SAE International Digital Human Modeling for Design and Engineering, Iowa City, IA, 2005.