Xiaoyuan Tu

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Xiaoyuan Tu (born February 10, 1967 ) is a Chinese engineer , computer scientist and researcher. She is both the first woman and the first Canadian scientist to receive the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. She works in the Motion & Location Technologies group at Apple Inc. as a senior scientist and software developer.

life and work

Tu studied from 1984 to 1989 at Tsinghua University in Beijing with a Bachelor of Engineering degree. From 1990 she studied in Hamilton (Ontario) , Canada , at McMaster University computer science with a focus on algorithms for parallel computations and graduated in 1991 with a Master of Engineering. From 1993 to 1995, her research work was recognized in numerous important competitions for creative science with digital media. In 1994 she received the Technical Excellence Award from the Canadian Academy of Multimedia and Arts. In 1990 she completed her doctorate in computer science at the University of Toronto with Dimetri Terzopoulos , where she was the first woman to receive the ACM doctoral award in 1996 with her dissertation: "Artificial Animals for Computer Animation: Biomechanics, Locomotion, Perception, and Behavior". She then worked as a researcher at Silicon Graphics Computer Inc. and as a visiting professor at Stanford University . From 1997 to 2000 she worked as a research assistant at Intel Corp. Media and Graphics Research Laboratory, and founded iKuni Inc. (now AiLive Inc. ) in 2000 , a Silicon Valley- based company focused on AI effects for computer entertainment. The company is a co-developer of the Nintendo® Wii ™ MotionPlus ™, which made the world's best-selling game "Wii Sports Resort" possible in 2009. In 2009 she moved to Apple where she is currently working on the development and implementation of motion detection and control for next-generation iOS devices. She is the inventor of several patents filed by Apple, including AirDrop data encryption, improving magnetometer mapping on iOS devices, and Apple CarPlay automation. Her research areas are machine learning, motion sensor technology, autonomous agent architecture design, physical and biomechanical modeling, computer graphics animation, and artificial life.

Honors

  • 1994: Technical Excellence Award, Canadian Academy of Multimedia and Arts
  • 1996: ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

Publications (selection)

  • Artificial animals for computer animation, 1999, ISBN 978-3540669395
  • John Funge; Xiaoyuan Tu; Demetri Terzopoulos: Cognitive Modeling: Knowledge, Reasoning and Planning for Intelligent Characters, Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH'99, Los Angeles, CA, August, 1999, in ACM Computer Graphics Proceedings, 1999
  • Xiaoyuan Tu: Artificial Animals for Computer Animation: Biomechanics, Locomotion, Perception, and Behavior, ACM Distinguished Ph.D Dissertation Series, (Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Eds .: G. Goos, J. Hartmanis, J.van Leeuwen. Vol . 1635) Springer-Verlag, 1999
  • John Funge; Xiaoyuan Tu: Making Them Behave, Technical Sketch, ACM SIGGRAPH'97, 1997
  • Xiaoyuan Tu: Artificial Animals for Computer Animation: Biomechanics, Locomotion, Perception, and Behavior, Ph.D Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 1996
  • Demetri Terzopoulos; Xiaoyuan Tu; Radek Grzeszczuk: Artificial fishes: Autonomous locomotion, perception, behavior, and learning in a simulated physical world, Journal of Artificial Life, 1, 4, 1994
  • Xiaoyuan Tu; Demetri Terzopoulos: Artificial Fishes: Physics, Locomotion, Perception, Behavior, Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH'94, Orlando, FL, July, 1994, in ACM Computer Graphics Proceedings, 1994
  • Xiaoyuan Tu; Demetri Terzopoulos: Perceptual Modeling for Behavioral Animation of Fishes, Proc. of the Second Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics '94), Beijing, China, August, 1994, in Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, J. Chen et. al (eds.), World Scientific, Singapore, 1994
  • Demetri Terzopoulos; Xiaoyuan Tu; Radek Grzeszczuk: Artificial Fishes with Autonomous Locomotion, Perception, Behavior, and Learning in a Simulated Physical World, Artificial Life IV: Proc. of the Fourth International Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Cambridge, MA, 1994
  • Xiaoyuan Tu; Eugene Fiume; Demetri Terzopoulos: 3D Computer Animation Of Fish Using Physics-Based Dynamic Model, Proceedings of The First Chinese Congress on Intelligent Control and Intelligent Automation, Beijing, China, August, 1993
  • Xiaoyuan Tu: Parallel Algorithms for Solving Triangular Systems, Master's Thesis, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, McMaster University, 1991

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personal data
SURNAME Tu, Xiaoyuan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 涂 涂 晓 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese engineer, computer scientist and researcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1967