Jose Luis Ponton

Postdoctoral Researcher @ MPIMax Planck Institute for Informatics

I study how to reconstruct, generate, and control human motion, combining generative AI and computer graphics for virtual worlds and virtual reality. My work spans motion capture from wearable sensors, responsive and controllable character animation, and the perception of virtual human movement. Building on this, I am now exploring physically grounded animation for robotics and biomechanics, alongside foundation models for human motion. I completed my PhD at UPC and previously worked at Meta on motion style transfer.

SCIE–Fundación BBVA Research Award

Recipient of the 2026 Young Researcher Award in Computer Science in Spain.

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STyMo presented at SIGGRAPH 2026

Fast and controllable few-shot motion style transfer.

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Joined the Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Started a postdoctoral position in the Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence department.

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