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-        <!-- <h3 class="mt-5" id="sean_andrist">Sean Andrist</h3>
+        <h3 class="mt-5" id="stacy_c_matsella">Stacy C. Marsella</h3>
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-          <div class="col-2"><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/sandrist/"> <img
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-                alt="Sean Andrist"></a></div>
+          <div class="col-2"><a href="https://www.khoury.northeastern.edu/people/stacy-c-marsella/"> <img src="/2024/img/Marsella_Stacy2.jpg"
+                style=" margin-right: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px" class="img-fluid rounded" alt="tacy C. Marsella"></a></div>
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             <h5>Biography</h5>
-            Sean Andrist is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington. His research interests
-            involve designing, building, and evaluating socially interactive technologies that are physically situated
-            in the open world, particularly embodied virtual agents and robots. He is currently working on the Platform
-            for Situated Intelligence project, an open-source framework designed to accelerate research and development
-            on a broad class of multimodal, integrative-AI applications. He received his Ph.D. from the University of
-            Wisconsin-Madison, where he primarily researched effective social gaze behaviors in human-robot and
-            human-agent interaction.
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-            <h5>Talk - Situated Interaction with Socially Intelligent Systems: New Challenges and Tools</h5>
-            In this talk, I will introduce a research effort at Microsoft Research that we call “Situated Interaction,”
-            in which we strive to design and develop intelligent technologies that can reason deeply about their
-            surroundings and engage in fluid interaction with people in physically and socially situated settings. Our
-            research group has developed a number of situated interactive systems for long-term in-the-wild deployment,
-            including smart elevators, virtual agent receptionists, and directions-giving robots, and we have
-            encountered a host of fascinating and unforeseen challenges along the way. I will close by presenting the
-            Platform for Situated Intelligence (\psi), an open-source extensible platform meant to enable the fast
-            development and study of this class of systems, which we hope will empower the research community to make
-            faster progress on tackling the hard open challenges.
+            Stacy Marsella is a professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences with a joint appointment in psychology.
+            Prior to joining Northeastern, he was a research professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University
+            of Southern California and a research director at the Institute for Creative Technologies. Previously, he held
+            positions at USC’s Information Sciences Institute (1996-2009) and Bell Labs (1995-1996). <br/>
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+            Marsella’s multidisciplinary research is grounded in the computational modeling of human cognition, emotion, and
+            social behavior, as well as the evaluation of those models. Beyond its relevance to understanding human behavior,
+            the work has seen numerous applications, including health interventions, social skills training, and planning
+            operations. His applied work includes frameworks for large-scale social simulations of towns and a range of
+            techniques and tools for creating virtual humans, facsimiles of people that can engage in face-to-face interactions.<br/>
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+            Marsella has served as a general chair of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems and chair of Intelligent Virtual
+            Agents. In 2010, he received an ACM SIIGART career award for his contributions to agent research. He is an associate
+            editor of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, a board member of the International Foundation for
+            Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, and on the steering committee for Intelligent Virtual Agents. He is a
+            fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychologists and a member of the Association for the Advancement of
+            Artificial Intelligence and the International Society for Research on Emotions.<br/>
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                 <a href="https://people.kth.se/~ghe/" target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold;">Gustav Eje Henter</a>
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-                KTH Royal Institute of Technology <br> Sweden
+                KTH Royal Institute of Technology <br> 
+                Motorica AB <br>
+                Sweden
 
 
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