Senior Management
Randall Hill, Jr.
Vice Dean, Viterbi School of Engineering
Omar B. Milligan Professor in Computer Science (Games and Interactive Media)
Executive Director, ICT
William Swartout
Chief Science Officer
Lila Brooks
Chief Business and Financial Officer
Ryan McAlinden
Director for Defense & Intelligence Initiatives
Rob Groome
Chief Information Officer
Dava Casoni
Chief Compliance and Legal Officer – Executive Producer
Research Leadership
Albert “Skip” Rizzo
Director for Medical Virtual Reality
Alesia Gainer
Project Leader and Project Manager, Virtual Humans Group
Andrew Feng
Associate Director, Geospatial Terrain Research
Andrew Gordon
Director for Interactive Narrative Research
Anton Leuski
Information Retrieval, Question Answering Characters
Arno Hartholt
Director of Research and Development Integration
Benjamin Nye
Director for Learning Science Research
David Nelson
Director, Mixed Reality Research
David Pynadath
Director for Social Simulation Research
David Traum
Director for Natural Language Research
Gale Lucas
Director, Technology Evaluation Lab
Jonathan Gratch
Director for Virtual Humans Research
Kallirroi Georgila
Dialogue Systems, Machine Learning, Speech Processing
Leslie Saxon
Executive Director for the Center for Body Computing
Meida Chen
Research Scientist
Mohammad Soleymani
Intelligent Human Behavior Perception
Paul Graham
Director, Applied Innovations
Sharon Mozgai
Director, Virtual Human Therapeutics Lab
Stefan Scherer
Neural Information Processing
Volkan Ustun
Associate Director, Cognitive Architecture
Yajie Zhao
Director, Vision and Graphics Lab