Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Maryland University, machine learning, data mining. Ph.D. student.

DePaul University. Affective reasoning, synthetic characters, animated tutoring agents, emotion representation.

Purdue University. National Science Foundation. Integrating natural language and speech processing, prosodic analysis, statistical parsing, gesture and speech.

Stanford University. Question answering systems, machine learning, probabilistic models, robotics.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dialog theory, natural language generation, argumentation theory, intelligent tutoring systems.

professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Research interests include multi-agent systems, compositional modelling, temporal semantics, common sense and nonmonotonic reasoning.

University of British Columbia. User modeling, adaptive interfaces, intelligent tutoring systems.

University of Edinburgh. Computational modeling of tutorial dialogue, multimedia explanation, integrated techniques for interpretation and generation, patient education.

Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Approximate reasoning, medical protocols, semantic web, specification languages for KBS.

NASA/Ames Research Center. Brahms multiagent simulation system, situated cognition, Haughton-Mars Project, human-centered computing.