Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, PhD in Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, MS in Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin, BA in Computer Science
About
Jonathan Gratch is a Professor at Vanderbilt University’s College of Connected Computing, where he directs the Affective Computing Group. His research develops human-like software agents for virtual training, therapy, negotiation and education environments, and uses these computational methods to give concrete, testable form to psychological theories of human behavior. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE’s Transactions on Affective Computing (retired), Associate Editor of Affective Science, Emotion Review and former President of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC). He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Cognitive Science Society and AAAC. Before joining Vanderbilt, he was Chief Scientist at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies and Director of the USC Affective Computing Group.
Research Focus
Affective Computing; AI for Negotiation and Conflict Management; AI for Mental Health