Dr. Louis-Philippe Morency is Leonardo Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Language Technologies Institute (LTI) at Carnegie Mellon University.
He was formerly research assistant professor at the University of Southern California (USC) and research scientist at USC Institute for Creative Technologies where he led the Multimodal Communication and Computation Laboratory (MultiComp Lab).
He received his Ph.D. from MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 2006.
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 IEEE Intelligent Systems as one of the "Ten to Watch" for the future of AI research.