Institute for Creative Technologies, USC

The Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is a research institute of the University of Southern California located in Playa Vista, California. ICT was established in 1999 with funding from the US Army.[1] ICT was created to combine the assets of a major research university with the creative resources of Hollywood and the game industry to advance the state-of-the-art in training and simulation. The institute's research has also led to applications for education, entertainment and rehabilitation, including virtual patients, virtual museum guides and Academy Award-winning visual effects technologies.[2] Core areas include virtual humans, graphics, mixed-reality, learning sciences, games, storytelling and medical virtual reality. Contents 1 Senior Management 2 Directors 3 Faculty and Academics 4 Sample honors and awards 5 Army Affiliation 6 See also 7 References 8 External links Senior Management[edit] Randall Hill, Jr., Executive Director Cheryl Birch, Director of Finance, Administration, and Human Resources Clarke Lethin, Managing Director William Swartout, Director of Technology Directors[edit] Andrew Gordon, Director of Interactive Narrative Research Jonathan Gratch, Director of Virtual Humans Research Hao Li, Director of Vision & Graphics Lab Ryan McAlinden, Director of Modeling, Simulation and Training Benjamin Nye, Director of Learning Science Research David Pynadath, Director of Social Simulation Research Todd Richmond, Director of Mixed Reality Lab/Studio + Advanced Prototypes Albert "Skip" Rizzo, Director of Medical Virtual Reality Paul Rosenbloom, Director of Cognitive Architecture Research David Traum, Director of Natural Language Research Arno Hartholt, Director of Research and Development Integration Rob Groome, IT Director Richard DiNinni, Project Director Matthew Trimmer, Project Director Julia Campbell, Project Director Stefan Scherer, Associate Director for Neural Information Processing Faculty and Academics[edit] About a dozen ICT researchers hold academic appointments at various schools and departments across USC. These include research professors, research associate professors and research assistant professors in Department of Computer Science at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, the Interactive Media Division at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine and the USC Davis School of Gerontology. ICT also has several post-docs and hosts university-level interns each summer. Notable researchers include: Paul Debevec Kallirroi Georgila Andrew Gordon Jonathan Gratch Anoton Leuski Hao Li Albert 'Skip' Rizzo Thomas 'Brett' Talbot Evan Suma Rosenberg Paul Rosenbloom Ari Shapiro David Traum Ron Artstein Notable engineers include: Edward Fast Chirag Merchant Kelly Christoffersen Nicolai Kalisch Mark Core