Bio
Jonathan Gratch (http://www.ict.usc.edu/~gratch)
is Director for Virtual Human Research at
the University of Southern California’s (USC) Institute for Creative
Technologies, a Research Full Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at
USC and Director of USC’s Affective Computing Group. He completed his Ph.D.
in Computer Science at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in
1995. Dr. Gratch’s research focuses on computational models of
human cognitive and social processes, especially emotion, and explores these
models’ role in shaping human-computer interactions in virtual environments.
In particular, 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. He is the founding
Editor-in-Chief of IEEE’s Transactions on Affective Computing (retired),
Associate Editor of Affective Science,
Emotion Review and former President of the Association for the
Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC). He is a Fellow of the Association
for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), AAAC and the Cognitive
Science Society, a SIGART Autonomous Agent’s Award recipient, and a Senior
Member of IEEE. |