Our Team
Jonathan Gratch
Principal Investigator · Professor
Professor at Vanderbilt University's College of Connected Computing. His research focuses on the interplay of emotion, social behavior, and intelligent systems — developing computational models that underpin virtual humans capable of emotionally intelligent interaction.
Post Docs
PhD Students
Master's Students
Former PhD Students
Dr. Wenji Mao
Modeling Social Causality and Social Judgment in Multi-agent Interactions
Anna Okhmatovskaia
Dr. Hyeoksoo Kim
A Planner-Independent Approach to Human-Computer Interactive Planning
Dr.Celso de Melo
The Interpersonal Effect of Emotion in Decision-making and Social Dilemmas
Dr. Lixing Huang
Parasocial Consensus Sampling: Modeling Human Nonverbal Behaviors from Multiple Perspectives
Dr. Zahra Nazari
Automated Negotiation with Humans
Sophie Mallaro
Dr. Johnathan Mell
A Framework for Research in Human-Agent Negotiation
Dr. Emmanuel Johnson
Improving Negotiation Training Through Automated Personalized Feedback
Dr. Su Lei
Building and Validating Computational Models of Emotional Expressivity in a Natural Social Task
Dr. Kushal Chawla
Computational foundations for mixed-motive human-machine dialogue
Dr. Jessie Hoegen
Decoding Situational Perspective: Incorporating Contextual Influences into Facial Expression Perception Modeling
Former Postdocs
- Dr. Peter Khooshabeh
- Dr. Gale Lucas
- Dr. Ahyoung Choi
- Dr. Sin-hwa Kang
- Dr. Wendy Treynor
- Dr. Ning Wang
Past Members of Note
- Louis-Philippe Morency (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Morteza Dehghani (USC)
- Stefan Scherer (Meta)