Justine Cassell
Justine M. Cassell (born March 19, 1960) is an American professor and researcher interested in human-human conversation, human-computer interaction, and storytelling. Since August 2010, she has been on the faculty of the Carnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and the Language Technologies Institute, with courtesy appointments in Psychology, and the Center for Neural Bases of Cognition. Cassell has served as the chair of the HCII, as associate vice-provost, and as Associate Dean of Technology Strategy and Impact for the School of Computer Science. She currently divides her time between Carnegie Mellon, where she now holds the Dean's Professorship in Language Technologies, and PRAIRIE, the Paris Institute on Interdisciplinary Research in AI, where she also holds the position of senior researcher at Inria Paris.
Justine Cassell | |
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Cassell at WEF in 2016. | |
Born | New York City | March 19, 1960
Alma mater | Université de Besançon Dartmouth College University of Edinburgh University of Chicago |
Known for | Linguistics Artificial Intelligence Human-Computer Interaction |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Linguistics Artificial Intelligence Human-Computer Interaction |
Institutions | Northwestern University MIT Carnegie Mellon University |
Thesis | The Development of the Expression of Time and Event in Narrative (1991) |
Doctoral advisor | David McNeill |
Doctoral students | Kristinn R. Thórisson |