Mark Bolas
Cinematic Arts
Associate Director for Mixed Reality R+D, Institute for Creative Technologies
Associate Professor, USC School of Cinematic Arts Interactive Media Division
Research Interests: augmented emotion, perception and cognition, virtual reality, augmented reality, world building and sound synthesis, audio, telepresence, immersion

Paul Debevec
Computer Science
Associate Director for Graphics Research, Institute for Creative Technologies
Research Professor, USC School of Engineering Computer Science Department
Research Interests: computer graphics, computer vision, virtual reality

David DeVault
Computer Science
Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Creative Technologies
Research Assistant Professor, USC Viterbi School of Engineering Computer Science Department
Research Interests: natural language dialogue systems, dialogue management, incremental language processing, natural language generation

Andrew Gordon
Computer Science
Research Scientist, Institute for Creative Technologies
Research Associate Professor, USC Viterbi School of Engineering Computer Science Department
Research Interests: commonsense reasoning, social media analysis, story-based learning environments

Jonathan Gratch
Computer Science
Associate Director for Virtual Humans Research, Institute for Creative Technologies
Research Associate Professor, USC Viterbi School of Engineering Computer Science Department
Research Interests: affective computing, virtual humans, emotion, media equation

Randall Hill, Jr.
Computer Science
Executive Director, Institute for Creative Technologies
Research Professor, USC School of Engineering Computer Science Department

Belinda Lange
Gerontology
Research Scientist, Institute for Creative Technologies
Research Assistant Professor, USC Davis School of Gerontology
Research Interests: virtual rehabilitation, game-based rehabilitation, Kinect, Wii Fit, video games and rehabilitation, physical therapy, physiotherapy, clinical virtual reality, pain distraction

Anton Leuski
Computer Science
Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Creative Technologies
Research Assistant Professor, USC Viterbi School of Engineering Computer Science Department
Research Interests: interactive information access, information retrieval and organization, language understanding, dialogue processing

Stacy Marsella
Computer Science
Associate Director for Social Simulation, Institute for Creative Technologies
Research Associate Professor, USC Viterbi School of Engineering Computer Science Department
Research Interests: virtual humans, emotion and cognitive models, social simulation, theory of mind, interactive drama, multi-agent systems, planning, interactive health interventions

Louis-Philippe Morency
Computer Science
Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Creative Technologies
Research Assistant Professor, USC Viterbi School of Engineering Computer Science Department
Research Interests: human communication dynamics, machine learning, computer vision, multimodal fusion, human-computer interaction

Albert "Skip" Rizzo
Gerontology and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Associate Director for Medical Virtual Reality, Institute for Creative Technologies
Research Professor, USC Davis School of Gerontology and USC Keck School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests: virtual rehabilitation, clinical psychology, neuropsychology virtual patients, clinical virtual reality, stress resilience, PTSD

Paul Rosenbloom
Computer Science
Professor, Institute for Creative Technologies
Professor, USC Viterbi School of Engineering Computer Science Department
Research Interests: artificial intelligence, cognitive science, cognitive architecture, virtual human architecture, graphical models

Kenji Sagae
Computer Science
Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Creative Technologies
Research Assistant Professor, USC Viterbi School of Engineering Computer Science Department
Research Interests: natural language processing, computational linguistics, parsing, dialogue systems

William Swartout
Computer Science
Director of Technology, Institute for Creative Technologies
Research Professor, USC School of Engineering Computer Science Department

David Traum
Computer Science
Principal Scientist, Institute for Creative Technologies
Research Assistant Professor, USC Viterbi School of Engineering Computer Science Department