Senior Management Team
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Randall Hill, Jr.
Executive Director
Randall (Randy) Hill, Jr., Executive Director graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1978 and subsequently served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army for six years.
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Cheryl Birch
Director of Finance, Administration, and Human Resources
After Graduating in 1980 from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Cheryl returned to her hometown of Sacramento, California to practice public accounting at the then “Big-8” firm, Ernst & Whinney.
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Kim LeMasters
Creative Director
Mr. LeMasters started in the television business in 1972 with ABC Television where he was Supervisor of Primetime Development. In a three-person department he oversaw the development of such series as Happy Days, Kung Fu and the Six Million Dollar Man.
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William Swartout
Director of Technology
William Swartout is Director of Technology for USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) and a research professor of computer science at USC. From 1989 to 1999 he was Director of the Intelligent Systems Division at the USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI). He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science from MIT and his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University.
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Lori Weiss
Director of Strategy, Operations and External Relations
Lori Weiss is a native of Los Angeles, California and graduated from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. Lori later attended graduate school at Pepperdine University where she graduated with a degree of Master of Business Administration in 1992.
Associate Directors
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Mark Bolas
Associate Director for Mixed Reality R&D;
Mark Bolas is the Associate Director for Mixed Reality R&D;, a research scientist, an artist, and a designer exploring perception, agency, and intelligence. His work focuses on creating virtual environments and transducers that fully engage one’s perception and cognition, and create a visceral memory of the experience. Amongst his courses at the undergraduate and graduate level are the design for interactive media and the business of interactive media.
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Paul Debevec
Associate Director for Graphics Research
Paul Debevec leads the Graphics Laboratory at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies and is a Research Associate Professor in the USC Computer Science Department.
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Jonathan Gratch
Associate Director for Virtual Humans Research
Dr. Jonathan 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.
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Stacy Marsella
Associate Director for Social Simulation
Stacy Marsella is the Associate Director for Social Simulation at ICT. He earned his B.A. in Economics from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Rutgers University with a focus on AI planning, human problem solving and cognitive science. He was at Bell Labs before joining the Information Sciences Institute and the Institute for Creative Technologies.
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Albert "Skip" Rizzo
Associate Director for Medical Virtual Reality
Albert ‘Skip’ Rizzo conducts research on the design, development and evaluation of Virtual Reality systems targeting the assessment and training/rehabilitation of spatial abilities, attention, memory, executive function and motor abilities.
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