Justine Cassell

Justine M. Cassell is an American-born French professor and researcher interested in the nature of collaboration and conversation, between people, and between people and artificial intelligence agents. Since August 2010, she has been on the faculty of the Carnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and the Language Technologies Institute, with courtesy appointments in Psychology, linguistics and the Center for Neural Bases of Cognition. Cassell has served as the director of the HCII, as associate vice-provost, and as Associate Dean of Technology Strategy and Impact for the School of Computer Science. Since 2019, Cassell has divided her time between Carnegie Mellon, where she now holds the Dean's Professorship in Language Technologies, and PRAIRIE, the Paris Institute on Interdisciplinary Research in AI, where she also holds the position of senior researcher at Inria.