Bio
Dr. Jonathan Gratch (http://www.ict.usc.edu/~gratch) is
an Associate Director for Virtual Humans Research at the University of Southern
California’s (USC) Institute for Creative Technologies, Research Associate
Professor in the Department of Computer Science and co-director of USC’s
Computational Emotion Group. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the
University of Illinois in Urban-Champaign in 1995. Dr. Gratch’s
research focuses on computational models of human social processes, especially
emotion, and explores these models’ role in shaping human-computer interactions
in virtual environments. He studies the relationship between cognition and
emotion, the cognitive processes underlying emotional responses, and the
influence of emotion on decision making and physical behavior. His research has
been supported by the National Science Foundation, AFOSR, DARPA and RDECOM. He
currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE’s
Transactions on Affective Computing, Associate Editor of Emotion Review and the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, President of the HUMAINE
Association, the international society for research on emotion and
human-computer interaction, and is a member of IEEE, the Association for the
Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the International Society for
Research on Emotion (ISRE). Dr. Gratch
is the author of over 150 technical articles.