William R. Swartout

  • Director of Technology, USC Institute for Creative Technologies
  • Research Professor of Computer Science, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Office: (310) 574-5705

Expertise Summary

Expert in artificial intelligence systems, including immersive virtual reality, intelligent agents and natural language generation

Expertise

  • artificial intelligence
  • virtual reality and virtual humans
  • human-computer interaction
  • immersive environments
  • modeling and simulation
  • serious games, and video games for training
  • computer-aided training and education
  • natural language processing
  • autonomous agents
  • knowledge-based systems
  • science, technology, engineering and mathematics

Additional Information

  • Fellow, American Association for Artificial Intelligence
  • Recipient, Robert Engelmore Award from Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, for seminal contributions to knowledge-based systems and explanation, groundbreaking research on virtual human technologies and their applications, and outstanding service to the artificial intelligence community
  • Past member: Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, Board on Army Science and Technology of the National Academies