I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles in 2014. My dissertation is "Door and Doorway Etiquette for Virtual Humans", advised by Prof. Demetri Terzopoulos. Currently, I'm a software engineer in the visual technology team at Houzz, Inc. Previously, I was a software engineer in the game services team at Amazon.com, Inc.

My research interests include Behavioral Animation, Pedestrian Simulation and Virtual Human Simulation.

Door and Doorway Etiquette for Virtual Humans
Wenjia Huang and Demetri Terzopoulos
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2018
[Project Page], [Paper], [Video], [Bibtex]

Full-Body Hybrid Motor Control for Reaching
Wenjia Huang, Mubbasir Kapadia, and Demetri Terzopoulos
Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Motion in Games, 2010
[Paper] [Video]

Work of Year 2010 - 2014
[webpage]

Multi-Human Simulation System in Synthetic Urban Environments
Thesis Research Project, 2010 - 2014
Integrated multi-human behavior simulation system with locomotion, steering, gaze/attention, and object manipulation. Simulated noval social interactions on this base.

Generate Gaze Behaviors for Virtual Humans
Intern Project at USC Institute for Creative Technologies, 2011
In the context of storytelling, modeled gaze behaviors as an abstract saliency map of different priority types: events, conversational keywords, and idle, together with saccade generation.

Hybrid Cognition Modeling of Virtual Humans
Course Project for Artificial Life, 2010
A two-layer cognition of virtual humans - Planning for long-term events and Bayesian Reasoning for short-term events.
[webpage]

Multi-agent Planning with Communication and Collaboration
B.E. Thesis for Digital Media Technology, Zhejiang University, 2009
Virutal tourists plan to go to different scenic spots or go boating. They can ask each other about paths to certain destinations or decide to go boating together.

Run! Sheep! Run!
Computer Game, 2010
The task is to lead your fellow sheep to escape from the sheep topia. Beware of the wolves and the sheep dog.
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Virutal Tour to West Lake
3D interactive website, 2008
Go sightseeing in the scenic place called "WestLake".
[webpage]

Virtual Abreaction
HCI project, 2007
In the virtual room, smash different objects by using a stick.
[webpage]