Biography

Jeffrey Cohn is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Intelligent Systems at the University of Pittsburgh, Courtesy Professor of Computer Science at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of Deliberate.ai. He leads interdisciplinary and inter-institutional efforts to develop advanced methods of automatic analysis and synthesis of facial expression and prosody and applies those tools to research in human emotion, social development, nonverbal communication, psychopathology, and biomedicine. His research has been supported by grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Autism Foundation, Office of Naval Research, and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency among other sponsors.

He is a scientific advisor for RealEyes and for Embodied, past Chair of the Steering Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) from 2011-2021, a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing. and has served as General Chair of FG2020FG2017, FG2015FG2008, ACII 2009, and ACM 2014. He has co-edited IEEE Transactions in Affective Computing (TAC) and special issues on affective computing for IEEE Transactions in Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Journal of Image and Vision Computing, Pattern Recognition Letters, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, and ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems.

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Email: jeffcohn@pitt.edu. jeff@deliberate.ai