Justine Cassell

Justine Cassell
Cassell at WEF in 2016.
Born (1960-03-19) March 19, 1960 (age 64)
Alma materUniversité de Besançon
Dartmouth College
University of Edinburgh
University of Chicago
Known forLinguistics
Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
Scientific career
FieldsLinguistics
Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
InstitutionsNorthwestern University
MIT
Carnegie Mellon University
ThesisThe Development of the Expression of Time and Event in Narrative (1991)
Doctoral advisorDavid McNeill
Doctoral studentsKristinn R. Thórisson

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.[1][2] 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.[3]

  1. ^ Cassell joins Human Computer Interaction Institute, Pittsburgh Business Times, April 6, 2010.
  2. ^ "Justine Cassell Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  3. ^ "CASSELL Justine - Prairie". 2019-11-18. Retrieved 2024-03-14.