Hello, I'm Ben Ling

I am a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Electronic Arts, previously PhD in CS advised by Prof. Michiel van de Panne at the University of British Columbia. My research focus is simulating realistic virtual characters using mocap, physics and ML/RL animation techniques, e.g., this, MotionVAEs, brachiation, and InterMimic. I build and deploy large-scale animation and simulation tools used across EA studios.

Contact me: ben[at]hungyuling[dot]com

Research

StableMotion: Training Motion Cleanup Models with Unpaired Corrupted Data. Yuxuan Mu, Hung Yu Ling, Yi Shi, Ismael Baira Ojeda, Pengcheng Xi, Chang Shu, Fabio Zinno, Xue Bin Peng. SIGGRAPH Asia, 2025.
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SILK: Smooth Interpolation Framework for Motion In-betweening (A Simplified Computational Approach). Elly Akhoundi, Hung Yu Ling, Anup Anand Deshmukh, Judith Bütepage. The 2nd Workshop on Human Motion Generation (HuMoGen) at CVPR, 2025.
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InterMimic: Towards Universal Whole-Body Control for Physics-Based Human-Object Interactions. Sirui Xu, Hung Yu Ling, Yu-Xiong Wang, Liang-Yan Gui. CVPR, 2025.
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Learning Soccer Juggling Skills with Layer-wise Mixture-of-Experts. Zhaoming Xie, Sebastian Starke, Hung Yu Ling, Michiel van de Panne. SIGGRAPH, 2022. Contriubtion: designed the layer-wise MoE architecture
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Learning to Brachiate via Simplified Model Imitation. Hung Yu Ling*, Daniele Reda*, Michiel van de Panne. SIGGRAPH, 2022.
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Flexible Motion Optimization with Modulated Assistive Forces. Hung Yu Ling*, Nam Hee Kim*, Zhaoming Xie, Michiel van de Panne. Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 2021.
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ALLSTEPS: Curriculum-driven Learning of Stepping Stone Skills. Hung Yu Ling*, Zhaoming Xie*, Nam Hee Kim, Michiel van de Panne. Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 2020. Best Paper Award
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Character Controllers Using Motion VAEs. Hung Yu Ling, Fabio Zinno, George Cheng, Michiel van de Panne. Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2020.
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On Learning Symmetric Locomotion. Farzad Abdolhosseini, Hung Yu Ling, Zhaoming Xie, Xue Bin Peng, Michiel van de Panne. Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG), 2019.
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Spitzer SAGE-Spec: Near Infrared Spectroscopy, Dust Shells, and Cool Envelopes in Extreme Large Magellanic Cloud Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars. Robert Blum, Sundar Srinivasan, Francisca Kemper, Ben Ling, Kevin Volk. The Astronomical Journal, 2014.
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