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 Computational Emotion 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 the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems, 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. Dr. Gratch is the author of over 300
technical articles. |