- Distinguished Lecturer, Computer Science Department, York University, Toronto, Canada, March 18, 2016.
- Invited Speaker, Graphics and Vision Colloquium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 4, 2016.
- Invited Speaker, Computer Science Colloquium, Grove City College, Grove City, PA, April 6, 2016.
- Invited Speaker “Hair Simulation”: Cosmetics and Toiletries Conference, Philadelphia, June 2015.
- Penn Alumni Dinner, Westchester NY Chapter, May 13, 2015.
- Invited Panel Speaker: The Future of Digital Human Modeling; at Human-Computer Interaction International Conference, Crete, June 2014.
- Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation, August 26-29, 2013, Philadelphia.
- Invited Speaker, T. C. Chan Center Building Simulation World Summit, University of Pennsylvania, March 2013.
- Invited Speaker, “Animation Across the Disciplines”, ICA, University of Pennsylvania, September 2012.
- Keynote Speaker, Chinese Animation Festival, Changzhou, China, August 2011.
- Distinguished CIS Lecturer, Rutgers University, April 2011.
- Invited Speaker, Penn Humanities Forum, Philadelphia, PA, March 2011.
- Invited Speaker and Session Organizer, “Analysis and simulation of human motion.” at International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Symposium, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, September 2010.
- Invited Speaker, Global Technology Summit, Philadelphia, PA, October 2009.
- Invited Speaker, Lockheed-Martin Advanced Technology Labs, June 2009.
- Invited Speaker, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK, May 2009.
- Invited Speaker, Distributed Video Sensor Networks Workshop, UC Riverside, May 2009.
- Speaker, Talk20, ICA, Philadelphia, PA, December 2008.
- Invited Speaker, IGDA (Institute for Defense & Government Advancement), Arlington, VA, October 2008.
- Invited Panelist (First Speaker of Conference), Digital Human Modeling for Design and Engineering, SAE, June 2008.
- Invited Speaker, DGP is 40, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, May 2008.
- Invited Speaker, IEEE Virtual Reality Workshop on Cityscapes, Reno, NV, March 2008.
- Keynote Speaker, RAVE (Real Action, Virtual Environments) February 2008, Barcelona, Spain.
- Invited Speaker, AAAI Fall Workshop, October 2007.
- Invited Speaker, KAIST Symposium on Emerging Technology, Daejeon, South Korea, September 2007.
- Invited Keynote Speaker invitations, declined: Cyberworlds 2005 (Nanyang, Singapore), International Workshop on Conversational Informatics 2005 (Kita-Kyushu, Japan), IVA 2005 (Kos, Greece), Pacific Graphics 2004 (Seoul, Korea).
- Invited Speaker, Temple University Computer Science Colloquium, March, 2007.
- Invited Speaker, MIT CSAIL Colloquium, September, 2006.
- Lower Merion High School Gifted Program, March 2006.
- Keynote Speaker, Workshop on Digital Human Modeling,
Simulation and Analysis Workshop,
US
Army TACOM, Detroit,
MI,
November 2005.
- Invited
Speaker, Dartmouth College , May 2005.
- Invited
Speaker, Reykjavík University , Iceland , April 2005.
- Invited
Speaker, Advanced Training Technologies, Old Dominion University , VA , March
2005.
- Invited
Speaker, Lockheed-Martin Advanced Technology Labs, March 2005.
-
Member
of Advisory Board, Center for Analysis & Design of Intelligent Agents,
Reykjavik University , Iceland , 2005-.
-
External
Advisory Committee, Institute for Creative Technologies, USC, 2004-.
-
Invited
Speaker, NASA Training for Tomorrow, JSC, NASA, Houston , TX , October 2004.
- Keynote
Speaker: TIDSE, Darmstadt , Germany , June 2004
- Invited
Speaker, NSF Workshop on Perceptive Embodied Agents, April 2004.
- Invited
Speaker, Microsoft Research, Redmond , Seattle , November 2003.
- Invited
Speaker, Boeing Commercial Airplane, Seattle, November 2003.
- Invited
Speaker, Intelligent Motion and Interaction within Virtual Environments, London,
UK, September 2003.
- Invited
Speaker, EON Reality Homeland Security Workshop, Irvine CA, May 2003.
- Invited
Speaker, IBM Research (Yorktown Heights), April 2003.
- Colloquium
Speaker, Ohio State University, March 2003.
- Invited
speaker, Virtual Humans Workshop, ICT/USC, Feb. 2002.
- Invited
Speaker, IRISA, Rennes, France, February 12, 2002.
- Program Co-Chair (with Daniel Thalmann and Rick Parent), Computer Animation '02, Geneva,
Switzerland, June 19-21, 2002.
- Invited Speaker, IMAGINA, Monte Carlo,
February 13, 2002.
- Program Co-Chair (with Daniel Thalmann), Computer Animation '01,
Seoul, Korea, November 6-8, 2001.
- Keynote Speaker, Autonomous Agents
'01, Montreal, Canada, May 2001.
- Keynote Speaker. Learning to
Behave, Workshop (TWLT 17) University of Twente, The Netherlands, October
19, 2000.
- Keynote Speaker, Chinagraph 2000, Hangzhou, PRC, Sept. 2000.
- SIGGRAPH
'00 Course #24 Organizer: Smart Animated
Agents, New Orleans, LA, July 24, 2000.
- Keynote Speaker, Digital Human Modeling Conference, SAE, Dearborn, MI,
June 8, 2000.
- General Co-Chair (with Daniel Thalmann), Computer Animation '00, Philadelphia,
PA, May 3-5, 2000.
- SIGGRAPH
'99 Course Organizer: Smart(er)
Animated Agents, Los Angeles, CA, August 9, 1999.
- Invited Speaker, International Workshop on Human Factors in Space, Tokyo,
Japan, July 7-9, 1999.
- General Co-Chair (with Daniel Thalmann), Computer Animation '99, Geneva,
Switzerland, May 26-28, 1999.
- Invited Speaker and Workshop Presenter: Digital Media Futures,
Bradford, UK, April 13-15, 1999.
- Cognitive Science Colloquium Speaker, Edinburgh University, Scotland, April,
1999.
- Invited Colloquium, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, April, 1999.
- Invited Speaker, Jack User Conference, Detroit, MI, May 12, 1999.
- Invited Speaker, International Space Human Factors Meeting, Tokyo, Japan,
July 8-10, 1999.
- SIGGRAPH '98 Course Organizer: Virtual Humans: Behaviors and Physics, Acting
and Reacting, July 21, 1998.
- Keynote Speaker. VIRTUAL
HUMANS 3, Los Angeles, CA, June 16-17, 1998.
- General Co-Chair (with Daniel Thalmann), COMPUTER ANIMATION '98, Philadelphia, June
8-10, 1998.
- Distinguished Lecturer, Rice University, February 25, 1998.
- Distinguished Lecturer, University of Houston, February 26, 1998.
- Session Organizer, Digital Human Modeling for Design and Engineering Conference
and Exposition, April 28-29, 1998.
- Distinguished Lecturer, Oregon Graduate Institute, December 5, 1997.
- Keynote Speaker. Pacific Graphics
'97. Seoul, Korea. October 14-17, 1997.
- SIGGRAPH '97 Course Organizer: Virtual Humans: Behaviors and Physics, Acting
and Reacting, August 4, 1997.
- AAAI
Tutorial Speaker: ``Physics-Based Models for Vision and Virtual Human
Animation.'' (with Dimitri Metaxas)
Providence, RI, July 1997.
- Keynote Speaker: Current Issues
in the Use and Development of Anthropometric Data, NIST/CPSC, June 24,
1997
- General Co-Chair, IEEE Nonrigid and Articulated Motion Workshop, Puerto
Rico, June 16, 1997. Invited speaker giving virtual humans paper: PostScript version [~9 pages]or HTML version.
- Plenary Speaker, Computacion
Visual '97, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City, México.
- Invited Speaker, SIBGRAPI '96, Caxambu, Brazil. Speaking on Virtual Humans for Animation, Ergonomics, and Simulation.
- MPEG-4
SNHC
- VRML
Humanoid Animation Working Group (h-anim)
- SAE G-13 Committee on Human
Modeling Technology and Standards, Subcomittee Co-Chair for Software
Standards.