Career
Doctor Louis-Philippe Morency is currently assistant professor at the Language Technologies Institute (LTI) at Carnegie Mellon University. He was formerly research assistant professor at the University of Southern California ( University of Southern California) and research scientist at University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies where he led the Multimodal Communication and Computation Laboratory (MultiComp Laboratory). He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 2006.
His main research interest is computational study of human multimodal computation, a multi-disciplinary research topic that overlays the fields of multi-modal interaction, machine learning, computer vision, social psychology and artificial intelligence.
He developed Watson, a real-time library for nonverbal behavior recognition and which became the de facto standard for adding perception to embodied agent interfaces. He was recently selected by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Intelligent Systems as one of the "Ten to Watch" for the future of Artificial Intelligence research.
